Thursday, April 7, 2011

SPX Forms Another Spinning Top...Earnings Season Starts Monday...


The SPX formed a spinning top on Thursday closing down -2.03 at 1,333.51.   Interest rates TNX +0.10 rose and bond ETF TLT dropped 18 cents.  Financial stocks XLF fell 8 cents.  The SPX continues to trade near resistance.

SPX spinning top, close above 30 DMA -0.15%
INDU hanging man, close above 30 DMA, -0.14%
COMPQ spinning top, close above 30 DMA, -0.13%
RUT black candle, continues above horizontal resistance, -0.55%

Breadth turned negative on Thursday as decliners led advancers 1.66 to 1 on the NYSE and 1.77 to 1 on the NASDAQ

Exchange       NYSE          NASDAQ
Advancers      1,130                 940
Decliners        1,886              1,667

Index              Chg.    Close    Direction      Confirmation
VIX                 +0.21      17.11     Up                 Yes – SPX
SOX               -2.25     443.25     Down            Yes – COMPQ

Leading stocks > +2% on Wednesday included IL, MCP, SINA, NVDA, NTES, SOHU

Losing stocks < -2.0% included RVBD, SWKS, JDSU, VLO,LDK, IPI, CRUS, UNG, URE

SPX
Resistance: 1,330, 1,344
Support: 1,321, 1,311, 1,300

The short term 3 day trend is neutral.
The six-month trend is up.
The twelve-month trend is up.

Trade with the trend of the chart you are trading.

Bullish entry signal is a bounce off support and a break above the high of the low day or a break out of horizontal resistance.

Bearish entry signal is a break of short term support or a bounce down from the 30 DMA or other resistance.

AAPL +0.04doji
AMZN +2.15white candle
BIDU +1.84 bullish harami
GOOG +5.82white candle
NFLX -6.01hammer
QCOM -0.31 inverted hammer

NDX 100 stocks stronger than the NDX include BBBY, COST, NVDA, CTRP, APOL, ISRG, MRVL, BIDU, CTXS, AMZN, WFMI, SNDK, VRTX and GOOG.

Stocks weaker than the NDX include LRCX, KLAC, CERN, NFLX, ATVI, NIHD, SRCL, ILMN, LIFE, AMAT, NWSA, SBUX, FLIR and ROST.

Stocks to Watch on Friday
Holding Above 30 DMA
HUM, GMCR, CDE, HLF, HAS, SINA, SWN, UCO, CAT, CSTR, WDC, IAG, SLW, SWK, DHR, FCX, NTES, VECO, VLO, MCP, A, CLF, DE, PCX, WLT, ACN,  ATI, F, NETL, SOHU, TSL, UNP, CMG, DOW, SLB, AKS, ANF, DECK, DLR, FWLT, JEC, URE, CF, CRM, LVS, POT, TIF, V, AGU, ESI, CHL, FAS, NDAQ, NYX, ZION, SNDK, CIEN, SMH, GS, STI, TBT
Moving Above 30 DMA = 1
IL
Moving Below 30 DMA = 2
ATW, MOS
Staying Below 30 DMA
ARUN, IPI, TLT, UNG, X, VMW, FAZ, AMD, ICE, CAM, RVBD, JNPR, BAC, GLW, JDSU, CRUS, SWKS, GES, MHS, LDK, NVDA, UAL

Intermediate Term Market Trend: Up
Short Term Market Trend: Neutral

3 comments:

Gary said...

Dave,
THANK YOU for all your time, effort and guidance. Your teaching and mentoring is more than anyone could ever expect, thank you, thank you, thank you. I learn something from every capstone/trading room you do. I/we are better traders because of your patience and efforts and fortunate to have such a generous man willing to mentor us.
Gary E
Colorado Springs

TraderBobb said...

Dave:
I second Gary's comments.
Thanks much
Robert
CANI_212

Anonymous said...

Dave,

And I third!

Thank you!

Kathy :)