SPX, NDX Close Lower...Consumer Staples, Utilities, Health Care Led Sectors...

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SPX 23.14, 5,940, opened lower, traded in a range, closed lower and formed a doji above of Monday’s S-1 level.   

The DJI, 42,677 -0.27%, fell.  The NDX -0.37% opened lower, traded in a range and closed slightly lower. 

Breadth weakened as decliners led advancers on the exchanges and indexes.

Tuesday Session Insight: It’s a market of stocks, not just a stock market.  Find the underlying stock or ETF that you want to trade and trade the trend you see on its chart.  There are leading, coincident and lagging stocks.  Some stocks look better, some similar and some worse than the broad market chart.  Trade the chart of the stock you are trading.

TSLA +1.73, +0.51%, closed higher.

Mega caps TSLA, AVGO rose and TSM, MSFT, META, BRK/B, NVDA, AAPL, AMZN, GOOGL fell on Tuesday. 

SPY down 2.00 at 592.85, 60.5 million shares, below average volume

VIX down .05 at 18.09,

QQQ down 1.74 at 520.27

UNH, BA, MRK, NKE led the DJIA, 10 advancers, -16

MRNA, DLTR, DG, HUM led the SPX, 171 advancers,

REGN, GILD, WBD, DASH led the NDX, 45 advancers,

Up: IWM,

Down: DIA, QQQ, SPY,

The SPY MFC green line is flat at 99.0 and is short-term bullish. -0.0

Three of eleven sectors were higher on Tuesday, led by XLP, XLU and XLV. 

Uptrend sectors: XLI, XLU,

Neutral sectors: XLK, XLP, XLRE, XLF, XLC, XLY, XLE, XLB,

Down trend sectors: XLV,

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

3-month Intermediate Term Market Trend:  Sideways

3-day Short Term Market Trend:  Sideways

45 of 100 NDX stocks closed higher on Tuesday.

90 NDX stocks are above their 30 DMA: CPRT, COST, CRWD, CTAS, MNST, PLTR, ROST, EA, MSTR, MELI, NFLX, ADSK, AXON, BKNG, CDNS, IDXX, TTWO, CEG, INTU, ZS, ABNB, ADI, AMAT, ANSS, ARM, AVGO, DDOG, DXCM, ISRG, KLAC, LRCX, MAR, MCHP, MDB, MSFT, PANW, SNPS, TSLA, TTD, WDAY, CHTR, PYPL, CDW, ADBE, HON, NVDA, PAYX, VRSK, ADP, AMD, CTSH, GFS, AMZN, APP, ASML, CSCO, META, MU, NXPI, PDD, ROP, ON, CSX, GEHC, LULU, QCOM, TXN, INTC, MRVL, ODFL, WBD, DASH, FANG, AAPL, BIIB, CMCSA, FAST, FTNT, GOOGL, PCAR, SBUX, TEAM, BKR, LIN, REGN, XEL, AZN, CCEP, ORLY, GILD,

NDX Stocks to Watch on Wednesday:

Moving Above 30 DMA = 0

Moving Below 30 DMA = 0

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