Thursday, April 30, 2015

Another Down Day For Stocks...DJIA Turns Negative For The Year... Biotechs Lead Losses...LNKD Swings Lower In After Market Trading With Earnings Report & Poor Outlook...LNKD Down 21.27%...

None of nine sectors moved higher on Thursday…all went down with XLK being the strongest sector and XLE was the weakest.
 
Breadth weakened as decliners led advancers 3.38 to 1 on the NYSE and 3.29 to 1 on the NASDAQ.

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

SPY down 2.11 at 208.46 on160.7 million shares, above average volume
VIX up 1.16 at 14.55…
TNX up .11 at 20.46…
TLT up .22 at 125.95…
XLF down .19 at 24.13 on 34.7 million shares

AAPL down 3.49 at 125.15 on 83 million shares
FB down 1.70 at 78.77on 28.9 million shares


Technical Commentary:
IWM -2.12%, QQQ -1.57%, DIA -1.05%, SPY -1.00%.



Trade with the trend of the chart you are trading and continue to move your profit protection stops.  Continue to follow your rules.


Short-term Chart Targets:
SPY = 210.33, 210.70, 211.40...
QQQ = 108.38, 109.17
IWM = 125.55, 127.13…

Support Levels
SPY = 207.01, 205.39...
QQQ = 105.55, 104.50…
IWM = 123.77, 122.90...


Earnings Week of April 6 – AA, BBBY, WBA, STZ
Earnings Week of April 13 – JNJ, JPM, FAST, WFC, INTC, BAC, CSX, DAL, LLTC, SNDK, NFLX, GS, C, AMD, AXP, CE, MAT, NOW
Earnings Week of April 20 – CHKP, HAL, HAS, MS, RCL, STI, IBM, LRCX, ZION, ARMH, ATI, BHI, DD, HOG, LMT, PCAR, TRV, UA, VZ, AMGN, BRCM, CMG, CREE, ILMN, ISRG, URI, UTX, YHOO, YUM, ABT, BA, EMC, KO, MCD, CTXS, EBAY, FB, FFIV, ORLY, QCOM, T, TSCO, TXN, XLNX, ABBV, ALXN, BAX, CAM, CAT, DHR, DOW, DPS, FCX, HP, HSY, LLY, LUV, MMM, MO, NDAQ, PEP, PG, SWK, UNP, ALTR, AMZN, ETFC, GOOGL, HBI, JNPR, KLAC, MSFT, SBUX, SRCL, SWN, AAL, BIIB, STT
Earnings Week of April 27AAPL, CHRW, AET, COH, F, GLW, PFE, UPS, VLO, AKAM, ESRX, VRSK, WDC, WHR, WYNN, GRMN, MDLZ, BIDU, MAR, NXPI, TRIP, VRTX, CAH, LLL, XOM, ADP, CELG, VIAB, AIG, CME, EXPE, FSLR, SWKS, V, GILD, MYL, CVX, MCO, WY




Q1 Earnings Reaction
Positive Reactions – AMZN, MSFT, JNPR, SBUX, GOOGL, AAL, CTXS, CAM, EBAY, FFIV, ORLY, SWK, T, ALTR, BAX, BRCM, DOW, EMC, HP, ILMN, KO, MCD, NDAQ, YUM, ABT, ATI, LRCX, PCAR, ARMH, AMGN, HAS, CHKP, HAL, MS, STI, NFLX, CE, MAT, C, DAL, FAST, INTC, JPM, LLTC, STZ, WBA, KMX, DGLY, CTRP, JUNO, KBH, MFRM, NKE,

More than 10% - AMZN, MSFT, ATI, HAS, NFLX, CE, DGLY, CTRP, JUNO, 

Negative Reactions – HBI, BIIB, STT, TXN, XLNX, MMM, SRCL, SWN, ALXN, CMG, CREE, DHR, FB, FCX, HSY, ISRG, KLAC, PEP, PG, BA, HOG, TRV, UA, UNP, URI, YHOO, DD, BHI, RCL, AXP, BAC, GS, JNJ, SNDK, AA, BBBY, MU, GME, YOKU, XONE, 

More than -10% - NOW, AMD, YOKU, 

Reversal in progress – AA, GS,

Reversal of Initial Reaction – FCX, GME, MU, YOKU, XONE


The SPX Market Forecast is pointed down at 77.

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Setups
Horizontal Breakout: UPL, SFUN,       
Diagonal Breakout:       
Bull Flag: ATI, BBRY, CMGE, CSIQ, CTRP, FEYE, GOGO, JD, MBLY, PANW, QIHU, RAX, SCTY, SOHU, SPLK, SPWR, VSLR, CYBR, JNPR, TAN, AKAM, DTV, EA, MNST, MU, SBUX, TSLA,       
Potential Bullish Divergence:  
Gap Up:       
Gap Down:
Bear Flag: STI,  
At Support: CCL, CAR, ZU, AAPL, COST, GRMN, TRIP,        
C- Pattern:  

Moves
New Highs: NTES,        
H Breakout: SINA (long term),         
D Breakout: UNG,        
Breakout Test:
Bull Flag Bounce: YOKU, YY, STX,          
Bounce: X, GMCR, WDC, WYNN,       
MACD Divergence Bounce:      
Gap Up:      
Gap Down: IWM, YELP, ADSK, BIDU, CELG,        
C- Pattern:   
Bear Flag:  
Support Break: AIG, BABA, CREE, EXPE, FSLR, LNKD, LOCO, SWI, UA, ESI, JDSU, ADSK, WBA, WFM,        

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