Look Out Below if this Simple Support Level fails for the SP500

The S&P 500 has retraced quickly to a known support target and we’ll focus on this current confluence level with great interest. Let’s highlight this level and plan a pathway if buyers fail to intervene here as they’ve done in the past (on the weekly chart). A simple plan would have us focus on the…

Dec 10 Breakdown and Breakout Intraday Update with Stock Scan

After a stellar intraday reversal yesterday, sellers continued their pressure today with a breakdown Trend Day. Let’s update our levels and highlight the strongest trending stocks to trade for the moment: Our key focal point yesterday was the 2,035 level from which the V-Spike Reversal developed Price traded toward the 2,060 level and now has…

Dec 9 Gap into Support Update and Stock Scan

Even though we’re seeing the widely expected and highly logical pullback, buyers continue to show their strength with another intraday V-Spike Reversal. Let’s update our levels and highlight the strongest trending stocks to trade for the moment: The widely (negatively) divergent market couldn’t sustain the thin-air highs any longer and retraced sharply lower toward the…

Charting the Strongest and Weakest Sectors XLF and XLE

A longer-term comparison reveals the current strongest sectors and weakest sector for trade and position planning. Let’s see these weekly charts and highlight key levels to watch for additional opportunities: Depending on how you measure relative strength, you’ll find that the Financial (XLF), Technology (XLK), Staples (XLP), and Health Care (XLV) sectors all show steady…

Dec 5 Stock Scan and New High Market Update

Can this market actually go down? No.  It can’t.  Absolutely not.  A sell swing would be silly. I’m being sarcastic of course, though it doesn’t feel far from the truth! Buyers swooped in to thrust the market higher, building on yesterday’s two V-Spike intervention reversals. Let’s update our levels and highlight the strongest trending stocks…

Link: Market Update and Education with Bennett McDowell

I wanted to support my colleague and friend Bennett McDowell of TradersCoach.com as he is offering a free market update/commentary as well as an educational webinar opportunity this Thursday. Bennett is well-known and respected in the industry – he also is the Wednesday Morning Market Briefing speaker with TradeStation (following me on Tuesday mornings). He’s…

December 3 Rally Continues Market Update and Stock Scan

Monday indeed was the end of the pullback and short-lived victory for the bears. Now, our strategies shift toward the “will the market break through to all-time highs or stall into resistance” logic. Let’s update our mid-day information and highlight our trending stock candidates for today’s session. The V-Spike Reversal occurred at the beginning of…