December 18, 2006 Stock Market Recap

Let me just say thank you to John Carter and Hubert Senters at TradeTheMarkets for the gap fade setup (which I got from John’s book). That bad boy is money. I may have to double my size when take that setup.

Here are the charts for today. I posted the Nasdaq-100 (NDX) instead of the Nasdaq Composite to show the 1,800 level I mentioned in this morning’s watchlist. The NDX tried to bounce off of 1800 but a late crush of selling pushed the index right through that line.

A small selloff on the S&P…

The Russell was the worst of the major indices today, down 1.35%…

Trend Table

The Nasdaq fell under both its 10 and 20-day moving averages, so the short-term trend gets flipped to ‘down’. Ditto for the Russell.

Trend Nasdaq S&P 500 Russell 2000
Primary Up Up Up
Intermediate Up Up Up
Short-term Down(-) Up Down(-)

(+) Indicates an upward reclassification today
(-) Indicates a downward reclassification today
Lat Indicates a Lateral trend

Comments

  1. Posted by Lloyd on December 19, 2006 at 8:49 am

    Mike,

    That is a damn good book, but I was too stupid to understand what they were saying. This is also prior to me daytrading. I should pick up the book again to figure out how to call a choppy market or when the market may fill its gap etc… Great info.

    LP