Wednesday, December 20, 2023

SPX -70.02, Broad Selloff in Final 90 minutes...All Sectors Lower...After-hours: MU Up on Positive EPS Reaction...


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The SPX -70.02, selloff on rapidly rising volume during the last 90 minutes of trading was reportedly from buyers taking a breathier.  Buying exhaustion is a real market dynamic but its sudden appearance today after five hours of modestly positive trading without a specific news development was atypical.   Mega caps and large cap stocks like AMD, AVGO, COST, ASML, TXN, QCOM, ADBE, PEP and AMGN were among Wednesday’s leading decliners.

After-hours:  MU +3.81, +4.84%, positive EPS reaction.


Mega caps GOOGL rose, and META, MSFT, AAPL, AMZN, NVDA, TSLA fell on Wednesday.


SPY down 6.58 at 468.26 on 102.9 million shares, above average volume, closed lower on higher volume. 
VIX up 1.14 at 13.67
QQQ down 6.08 at 403.08


MCD, DOW, MSFT led the DJIA, 0 advancers, -19
CVS, JCI, ALLE, FDS led the SPX, 20 advancers 
TEAM, GOOGL, DLTR, ODFL led the NDX, 5 advancers.

The two-year trend term is sideways.  The one-year trend is up.

Up: 
Down:  DIA, SPY, QQQ, IWM,

All eleven sectors were lower on Wednesday.

The SPY MFC green line turned down at 93 and is counter-trend defensive. 

Uptrend sectors:   XLC, XLK, XLF, XLY, XLI, XLRE, XLB, XLE, XLV,
Neutral sectors:  XLU, XLP,
Down trend sectors:


The 6-month intermediate trend is up.  The ten-day trend is up.

3-month Intermediate Term Market Trend: Up
3-day Short Term Market TrendDown a little


5 of 100 NDX stocks closed higher on Wednesday.

88 NDX stocks are above their 30 DMA:  FAST, LULU, DLTR, INTC, AEP, AMZN, CRWD, CTAS, ROST, TMUS, ASML, DXCM, KDP, KLAC, MELI, SNPS, AMD, HON, QCOM, AAPL, AMAT, EA, KHC, LRCX, COST, CSGP, PCAR, PDD, WDAY, ZS, BKNG, DDOG, INTU, MAR, ADI, IDXX, ISRG, MCHP, PAYX, ABNB, CSX, CTSH, NXPI, PYPL, TSLA, TXN, XEL, WBD, ADP, PANW, MRNA, ADSK, TEAM, REGN, AMGN, GILD, ILMN, ON, BIIB, WBA, AVGO, CMCSA, NFLX, MRVL, MU, TTD, ANSS, CDNS, FTNT, GEHC, GFS, SIRI, AZN, META, NVDA, VRTX, CSCO, ODFL, CCEP, CDW, DASH, MDB, ROP, SPLK, TTWO, BKR, FANG, GOOGL,


NDX Stocks to Watch on Thursday:
Moving Above 30 DMA = 0



Moving Below 30 DMA = 5
CEG, MDLZ, MNST, MSFT, PEP,



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2 comments:

Gene said...

There was a news event that came across the SPY news feed yesterday @ 11:49.
NBC news reported 'Xi Warned Biden During Summit That Bejing Will Runify Taiwan with China'. I think that hit semiconductor and tech stocks the hardest.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/xi-warned-biden-summit-beijing-will-reunify-taiwan-china-rcna130087

Gene said...

That was 11:49 PST