April 7, 2008 Stock Market Recap

The indices remain stuck in a holding pattern. For the fourth session in a row they traded within relatively tight ranges and closed near last Tuesday’s closing levels. It looks like the market will work off its short-term overbought condition simply by going sideways.

Trend Table

No changes

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

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

*** I’m simply using the indices’ relations to their 200, 50 and 10-day moving averages to tell me the long, intermediate and short-term trends, respectively.

Comments

  1. Posted by Andy on April 7, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    Quick question:

    How do you get those annotated charts on to the web? It looks like they are charts off of stockcharts.com.. I just can’t figure out how to get them annotated and posted onto a blog. Thanks!

    Andy

  2. Posted by Michael on April 9, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    After configuring the SharpChart the way you want it click the “Annotate” link beneath the chart. That will pop up a little java application that will let you annotate the chart.

    From there I use SnagIt to take a screen capture of the annotated chart. Then I upload the image to my server.