Thursday, August 4, 2011

Futures Point to a Lower Open...Jobs Data in Minutes...Unemployment on Friday...

BMO – ES -14.50 and NQ -22.75 futures are lower about 75 minutes before the open in pre-market trading and point to a lower open on Thursday just prior to jobs data at 8:30 am EDT…volume is moderate for pre-market with many more stocks quoting down than up…Financial stocks, XLF down 8 cents on volume in pre-market…

TLT is up 85 cents and the Euro is down 124 pips in premarket trading…

NDX leaders AAPL, AMZN, BIDU, GOOG, NFLX, PCLN and QCOM are quoting lower in pre-market trading…

GM is higher and WLT gaps lower following earnings…

Earnings Next Week
Monday Aug 1= CTRP, HLF, HUM, SOHU
Tuesday Aug 2 = CTSH, EXPD, HSIC, SIRI, COH, FWLT
Wednesday Aug 3 = ATVI, CMCSA, AGU, ATW, ENTR, ICE, WLT
Thursday Aug 4 = DTV, FSLR, GRMN, PCLN, ANR, CF, GM, SINA
Friday Aug 5 = WCRX, WTW

Dave’s Insight for Thursday:  Expect a test on Wednesday's low today...With the intermediate term trend Neutral, one should wait for confirmation which is a close above Wednesday's long tail hammer...Follow your rules for entries this morning for bullish and bearish trades…Trade each chart according to your rules…Watch XLF which is still a key factor in any SPX move up or down

SPX
Resistance: 1,267, 1,278, 1,288
Support: 1,258, 1,249, 1,235
Quoting DownWLT, CMG, ANR, MCP, FCX, CLF, GMCR, ENTR, HLF, CAT, DE, SLB, DECK, GS, VMW, UNP, CF, V, TPX, MOS, ATI, X, UCO, LVS, UCO, POT, CREE, PCX, FFIV, SNDK, CIEN, SOHU, NKE, C, ICE, FAS, TVT, JNPR


Quoting UpANF, FAZ, TLT, FFIV, URE, ACN, CRM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dave,
Great insight, analysis, and tune. All are very positive and the reason I "tune" into you every day. (Couldn't resist that)
Thanks,
Gary A.

Anonymous said...

On days like this, you can throw technical analysis out the window. Fear overrides everything including common sense.