A Good Day to be Long

The melt-up resumed today helped along by the huge drop in oil prices. You certainly didn’t want to be short today (or recently). It seems like we’re in a perfect storm of good news of late. The SOX even made it out of bear territory today by closing above its 200-day moving average.

Here are charts of the S&P 500 and the QQQQ. Note how strong the trends are (based on how well-spaced the lines are) in the multiple moving averages — especially in the long-term group of MMAs (orange)

Comments

  1. Posted by muckdog on December 2, 2004 at 1:01 am

    Woohoo! But we’re running out of time. The early month strenth cycle is up friday-monday. At least the msft divided hits tomorrow.

  2. Posted by TraderX on December 2, 2004 at 7:47 am

    Muckdog, what do you base that on?

  3. Posted by muckdog on December 2, 2004 at 3:39 pm

    The monthly strength period normally begins a day or two prior to the beginning of the month, through the 4th trading day of the month, as new money hits 401(k) plans. $32Billion of MSFT dividend is deposited in folks’ accounts today. We’ll see if that gets reinvested or not…