August 20, 2008 Stock Market Recap

This was a session which I like to label as a chopfest. The bulls can claim a victory though since the indices finished higher on the day and volume, while still on the light side, increased a bit. But I’ll call it a minor victory for the bulls since the advance decline line were mixed — positive on the NYSE and negative on the Nasdaq — and the indices didn’t even regain all of Monday’s losses.

Oil broke its July trendline today in unimpressive fashion. It may be worth keeping an eye on though…

Trend Table

No changes

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

(+) 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 Nick on August 20, 2008 at 9:25 pm

    Hey Mike,

    I hope you were in SOLF today :)

  2. Posted by Alan on August 21, 2008 at 6:52 am

    Thanks for the list of recent links. They are quite interesting.

  3. Posted by mark on August 21, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    You would do MUCh better if you used a charting system other than ‘stock charts.com’

    Pro’s don’t use stockcharts.com :)

  4. Posted by Michael on August 22, 2008 at 1:44 pm

    Mark,

    If you bothered to read anything on this site about what I use to trade you’d realize that I only use stockcharts.com to post charts to this site. I trade off of QuoteTracker charts and used eSignal before that.