Friday, July 12, 2013

SPY Makes Sixth Consecutive Day High...ALXN Up 12.64%...REGN Up 7.31%...Numerous Stocks Making All New Highs...

Seven of nine sectors moved higher on Friday… XLF, XLV and XLE were the strongest sectors…XLI was the weakest sector.

Breadth weakened…advancers led decliners…1.01 to 1 on the NYSE and 1.22 to 1 on the NASDAQ…

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


SPY up .07…volume 104.2 million shares
VIX down .17 at 13.84…
TNX up .27 at 26.01…
TLT down .09 at 107.72...
XLF up .14 at 20.35…volume 43 million shares

AAPL down .78 at 426.51volume 9.9 million shares
FB up .10 at 25.91volume 16.5 million shares


Technical Commentary:
 QQQ + 0.44, IWM + 0.20%, SPY + 0.04%, DIA – 0.14%.

SPY closed up on Friday .07 gaining for the 6th consecutive day.

ALXN gained on Friday to temporarily break its horizontal resistance from early October 2012.
ALXN gained 12.82 or 12.64%.  REGN gapped up on Friday to break through its early June horizontal resistance gaining 18.13 or 7.31%. 

NFLX made a new high and closing above it horizontal resistance of mid-May gaining 13.09 or 5.36%.  FFIV had a second day gap to close up 3.70 or 4.86%.  YELP also finished strong making another new high on Friday gaining 1.95 or 5.21%.

Numerous stocks made new highs on Friday including AMZN, BBBY, CMCSA, COST,CSCO, PCLN, XBUX, and TSLA.



The unofficial start of earnings season was Monday, July 8 with AA reporting earnings after the close.

Earnings of Interest
Monday – AA, ISRG
Wednesday – FAST, YUM
Friday – JPM, WFC
Chart Signals Strategy Guidelines
When the market is trending up Chart Signals looks for support bounce and resistance breakout entries. 

When the market is trending down Chart signals looks for resistance pull back and support break entries. 

When the market is sideways in consolidation Chart Signals will look for support bounce, diagonal breakouts and pull backs at resistance where price action stays between support and resistance

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.


The Market Forecast Green Line is in the Upper Zone

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Setups
H Breakout: DTV, EBAY, ESRX, GILD, GRMN, MSFT, MYL, NTAP, NVDA, YHOO, ATI, BAC, FAS, LNDK, TPX,

Diagonal Breakout: AKAM, SNDK, LVS, TLT, UAL, UNG,

Bull Flag:  GRPN, MFRM, SOHU, STI, TBT, XONE, ZION,

Potential Bullish Divergence:  

Gap Up:

Gap Down: 

Bear Flag:   

At Support:


Moves
New Highs: AMZN, BBBY, CMCSA, COST, CSCO, PCLN, SBUX, STX, TNX, WFM, F, SPLK, TSLA, YELP, Z,

Gap Up: ADBE, XLNX, FIVE,

Gap Down: FFIV,  

H&D Breakout: GOOG, NFLX, QCOM, NFLX,

Breakout Test: 

Bounce:    

MACD Divergence Bounce:  

Bear Flag:  

Support Break:   

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71 of 100 Leading NDX stocks closed higher on Friday…and three were unchanged.


Leading NDX 100 stocks included:  ALXN, REGN, NFLX, FFIV, VRTX, XLNX, GILD, AMZN, SIRI, ADP, EBAY, MYL, EQIX, ADSK, VIAB, ALTR, BIIB

Lagging NDX stocks included:  SHLD, GOLD, ATVI, ORCL, CHRW, FOSL, NWSA, MNST, MXIM, EXPD, WYNN, XRAY

Leading stocks > +2% on Friday included: NFLX, YELP TSLA, UCO, DECK, MCP, CRM, ZION, BAC

Lagging stocks < -2.0% included: CLF, X, ANR, GMCR, CDE, AKS, ATI, LDK

Stocks to Watch on Thursday
Holding Above 30 DMA= 89
SPLS, AVGO, CSCO, AMZN, DLTR, ADBE, INTU, SBUX, BBBY, EXPE, MCHP, PCLN, SNDK, SRCL, VRTX, ALTR, CA, LINTA, MAT, MNST, ORLY, PCAR, PCLN, ROST, STX, VOD, VIAB, FB, LBTYA, KRFT, LMCA, CMCSA, GOOG, HSIC, DISCA, VRSK, ADP, ALXN, CHKP, CTSH, DTV, EBAY, FOSL, NTAP, SYMC, WFM, WDC, NFLX, BMC, CELG, ESRX, FISV, LLTC, XLNX, ADI, ATVI, BIIB, CHRW, COST, CTXS, EXPD, GILD, LIFE, MYL, NUAN, PAYX, XRAY, TXN, SIAL, SIRI, AKAM, AMAT, GRMN, KLAC, YHOO, AMGN, MSFT, NVDA, EQIX, REGN, SBAC, AAPL, ADSK, BIDU, BRCM, CERN, FFIV, MXIM, MDLZ

Moving Above 30 DMA = 1
QCOM

Moving Below 30 DMA = 2
DELL, SHLD

Staying Below 30 DMA
MU, ISRG, INTC, CTRX, ORCL, WYNN, GOLD, FST, NWSA

Four-Week Intermediate Term Market Trend: Up

Short Term Market Trend: Up

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