Perhaps unexpectedly, the market gave us a powerful trend day up today. Let’s look at it and see where it leaves us in the broader picture: I’m showing the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) here for a proxy of the intraday action. Markets usually start a trend day by gapping, but this trend day snook up…
The DJ Transportation Index ($TRANS) is outperforming the Dow Jones index, which is an interesting development that has implications for Dow Theory. Dow Theory stresses the ‘confirmation’ between the DJ Transports and the DJ Index itself (meaning both must make a higher high to signal a ‘Buy Signal’ and vice versa). According to the theory,…
There’s an interesting confluence of support coming in on the Dow Jones and S&P 500 Averages. Let’s look: S&P 500: On both charts, three proposed trendlines have all come together to a point, which sits just under the current index prices. It’s interesting to have such a confluence. Also, the key 20 and 50 period…
Let’s look at the price positions of the US Dollar Index and the Dow Jones Index to gather clues about possible moves next week: First, the Dollar: The Dollar Index rallied (strengthened) last week, after forming a tight coil and has broken above its key 20 period moving average. Price is finding preliminary resistance at…