Monday, May 20, 2013

Energy Stocks Advance...XLE Rose 1.41%... BIDU Up 6.09%...AAPL Up 2.23% Best Daily Percentage Since May 6th...


Four of nine sectors moved higher on Monday…XLE, XLI, and XLF were the strongest sectors…XLP was the weakest sector.

Breadth weakened…advancers led decliners…1.32 to 1 on the NYSE and 1.21 to 1 on the NASDAQ…

Monday – weakened, advancers led
Friday – strengthened, advancers led
Thursday – weakened, decliners led
Wednesday – weakened, advancers led
Tuesday – strengthened, advancers led




SPY down .01 at 166.93volume 85 million shares
VIX up .57 at 13.02
TNX up .16 at 19.65
TLT down .14 at 116.92...
XLF up .04 at 19.9volume 32.8 million shares                 

AAPL up 9.67 at 442.93volume 16.1 million shares
FB down .49 at 25.76volume 42.3 million shares


Technical Commentary:
IWM + 0.16%, QQQ – 0.15%, SPY – 0.01% and DIA – 0.07%.

Energy stocks led the sectors gaining 4% on Monday with the XLE gaining 1.41%.

BIDU rose on Monday to close up 5.77 up 6.09%.

GOLD rose 4.14% and PCLN was up 28.84 to close Monday up 3.54%.

AAPL was up 9.67 up 2.23%.    


It’s time to move stops up to protect profits as traders stay with the trend.

Trade what you see on the chart of your position.  The intermediate term trend is up with a horizontal resistance breakout setup.  Traders should lock in profits when targets are reachedAs always look for re-entry according to your rules.


Chart Signals Strategy Guidelines
Technical setups for short-term option trades be in and out by earnings release.
Over earnings release use earnings option strategies such as straddles, strangles, OTM calls or puts.
After earnings look for bullish setups in positive reaction stocks and bearish setups in negative reaction stocks.


EPS Reaction Summary
EPS Gainers –  CSCO, A, MCP, WCRX, NVDA, PCLN, GMCR, GRPN, TSLA, EA, DVA, WFM, CTSH, DTV, LBTYA, AIG, ADP, CBOE, REGN, FB, BZH, EXPD, GM, MDC, STX, V, YELP, ICE, JRCC, VIAB, CMCSA, DDD, AVP, HLF, CERN, CVX, DHI, TWC, ANGI, AKAM, ALXN, ALTR, BIIB, COG, CLF, CROX, DOW, ESI, FFIV, HOG, LRCX, LVS, MO, PHM, RCL, SIAL, XLNX, BA, BRCM, GLW, HES, DAL, COH, DD, NFLX, ILMN, VECO, LCC, RF, ZION, TRV, LMT, CAT, CHKP, HAL, HAS, CMG, GOOG, KMB, STI, MSFT, BTU, PEP, UNP, VZ, MAT, AXP, JNJ, INTC, KO, C, APOL

EPS Losers – DISH, XRAY, ATVI, RAX, MNST, Z, LNKD, TPX, ZAGG, CTRX, GRMN, MRK, SWI, AMZN, BIDU, CRUS, DECK, EXPE, HSY, KLAC, MXIM, QCOM, PTEN, ABC, MMM, AMGN, T, JNPR, PNRA, VMW, GE, IBM, ISRG, MCD, MS, PM, UNH, SNDK, EBAY, BAC, USB, GS, LLTC


Key Earnings this week:
CRM, GME, P, NTAP, ROST, SHLD,


The Market Forecast Green Line is in the Upper Zone.

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Setups
H Breakout:   AKAM, AMAT, AMZN, ATVI, ESRX, SIRI, STX, CNX, LVS, P, SSYS, TBT,

Diagonal Breakout:   CTSH, DELL, GILD, CLF,

Bull Flag:  ADBE, CELG, CMCSA, COST, CSCO, DTV, EBAY, FAST, GOOG, GRMN, MAT, MNST, MU, NVDA, ORCL, ROST, SHLD, SNDK, TXN, XLNX, YHOO, ANGI, CIEN, CREE, FIVE, GRPN, JNPR, LNKD, NFLX, RCL, TPX, TSLA,

Potential Bullish Divergence:

Gap Up:

Gap Down: 

Bear Flag:  

At Support:   FB, ALK,

Moves
New Highs:   MSFT, WYNN, C, CMG, CRM, FAS, GLW, GS, STI, ZION,

Gap Up:  PCLN, QCOM, DDD, NTES, SPLK,

Gap Down:   NTAP,

H&D Breakout:   AMGN, BIDU, FSLR, SOHU, SWI, UNG, WLT,

Bounce:  ANR, BBRY, GLD, JCP,

MACD Divergence Bounce: GLD,

Bear Flag:  

Support Break:  BBBY,

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22 of 100 NDX stocks closed higher on Monday…one was unchanged…


Leading NDX 100 stocks included: BIDU, GOLD, PCLN, AAPL, ATVI, WYNN

Lagging NDX stocks included:  AMGN, ALXN, VRTX, CMCSA, BBBY, SNDK, MDLZ, CTRX

Leading stocks > +2% on Monday included: TSL, LDK, MCP, HLF, CDE, SOHU, ANR, NTES, AKS, ESI, SSYS,  SINA, X, ATI

Lagging stocks < -2.0% included:  VMW, CIEN


Stocks to Watch on Tuesday
Holding Above 30 DMA= 80
ADP, GILD, BIIB, MAT, PAYX, YHOO, SBAC, MSFT, SRCL ,REGN, VOD, LIFE, ROST, WYNN, DLTR, INTC, DTV, NWSA, SBUX, VRTX, WFM, COST, WDC, AKAM, AMAT, GOOG, NVDA, SIAL, SIRI, STX, TXN, BMC, BRCM, CA, ALXN, ESRX, ORLY, PCAR, XLNX, CERN, AAPL, FOSL, KLAC, LINTA, MCHP, XRAY, CHKP, ORCL, SHLD, VIAB, EQIX, VMED, LBTYA, CELG, EXPD, GRMN, LLTC, MYL, PCLN, ADI, MU, NTAP, SPLS, ALTR, BIDU, HSIC, FISV, SNDK, AVGO, EBAY, FFIV, AMZN, ATVI, CSCO, FAST, QCOM, PRGO, MNST, DISCA, CTXS

Moving Above 30 DMA = 0


Moving Below 30 DMA = 5
BBBY, CHRW, CMCSA, MDLZ, VRSK

Staying Below 30 DMA
ADSK, ADBE, AMGN, EXPE, SYMC, STRZA, MXIM, FB, GOLD, ISRG, CTRX, NUAN, CTSH, DELL, INTU

Five Month Intermediate Term Market Trend: Up

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