Big Bang Jan 4 Market Update and Moving Stock Scan

Bycjrosen

Welcome to 2016!  The bears ruled the opening session of the new year on concerns from China’s stock market.

Let’s update our levels for the S&P 500 Index and note the big trending stocks today:

Take a moment to review the morning post for additional level and target (trade) planning for the S&P 500.

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Let’s see what our Breadth Chart reveals about current market strength (or weakness):

100% of the Dow Jones stocks and 88% of the S&P 500 stocks are negative at the moment.

Energy is the stand-out sector today while all other sectors are strongly negative/bearish.

In this type of money flow (defensive) environment, capital preservation is the key, along with aggressive short-selling.

Here’s a top-level or full-perspective view of today’s S&P 500 stock performance (courtesy of FinViz.com).

Here are today’s strongest trending (intraday) names – candidates for pro-trend continuation:

Smith and Wesson (SWHC), Coach (COH), FireEye (FEYE), and Lululemon (LULU)

Bearish downtrending candidates include the following stocks from our “weakness” scan:

DR Horton (DHI), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Chipotle (CMG), Abbott Labs (ABT)

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