July 18th 2011 Market Recap with Gold, Silver

Another volatile session for stocks today resulted in even more pressure from bears on the downside. With so many issues both on a micro and macro level in play, technical analysis reliability (when it comes to analyzing the overall market) slips so stay frosty out there.

Trend Table
Trend Nasdaq S&P 500 Russell 2000
Long-Term Up Up 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.