Looking Good

There’s a confluence of bullish indicators on the NASDAQ.

More Bullish Candlesticks

I think the market did a good job of hanging in there given the mood at the end of last week, and the reaction to the GDP report on Friday. For the second day in a row there was a plethora of bullish candlestick patterns made. This time they were mainly hammers, harami, bullish engulfing, [...]

Hammers Everywhere

Yesterday’s drop and snap-back rally created hammers all over the place. I have a long list (too long) of buy candidates based on that fact. Like yesterday, I’ll be surprised if many of them actually trigger because the GDP report seems to have sucked the early morning enthusiasm out of the bulls. As always, we’ll [...]

Battle for the 50 Day Moving Averages

We’ve now had 3 days of thrashing around the 50-day moving averages on the indices. I’m getting a sense of déjà vue because this is exactly what happened at the end of September. The S&P chart shows this action well: You can see how deeply oversold we are by the stochastic reading. Unless we get [...]

50 Day Moving Averages Save the Day… Again

Last night when I mentioned looking for a bounce around the 50-day moving averages I had no idea we’d get there this quick. It’s clear that technical traders went to work today, once again buying at that popular moving average. This is the third time since late September that the indices have found support at [...]