Before the Open (Nov 29)

Good morning. Happy Monday.
The Asian/Pacific markets closed mixed and with a bullish bias. Europe is down across the board – losses are moderate. Futures here in the States are down slightly.
The market has been all over the map the last couple weeks…large gap ups, large gap downs, sudden rallies, sudden sell-offs. In the end the indexes are unchanged over the last 8 trading days. This isn’t bad considering the negative news out, but the “relative strength” isn’t a reason to blindly hold. Here’s the 30-min SPX chart going back to the first week of Sept. It’s steep uptrend was broken two weeks ago, and now it’s been consolidating in a range. This is more bearish than bullish.

Event risk is high. Bad news can easily push the S&P down another 50 points, but bearish sentiment has grown enough that good news or a lack of bad news could squeeze the market higher and back to its highs. In my opinion, this is not a time to be aggressive. More after the open.
headlines at Yahoo Finance
today’s upgrades/downgrades
this week’s Earnings Reports
this week’s Economic Numbers

0 thoughts on “Before the Open (Nov 29)

  1. a market for daytraders
    DAX currently has a large key reversal and ndx should follow
    usd has been breaking out and euro is not a hero
    some nice volitility
    am flat now after some nice moves
    im looking for somemore bulls to short

  2. of course its a illusion ,Neal
    but when i was a admiral in the galactic confederation with my own squadron of space ships,patroling this sector of the galaxy—we did have compasses
    and oz is the right way up and when u turn usa up the right way with florida up top,it fits just nicly into oz–i live in a place called townsville nr carins on the great barrier reef
    when usa is turn rifgt side up that would be equilivent to miami
    just took somemore bull scalps–dax is off 200 points –ftse doing well on downside too
    also got some ndx and dji scalps
    narket should go up now for europe close and i can reload again

  3. Neal,–probably a little late for u now
    cfd= contracts for difference–the spread or only commission is the difference between the bid and ask–its tax free in london as its called gambling as the market maker -book maker makes up the bid /ask==u can bet on anything weather–football even space direction—oh indexes and shares
    so u liked my sence of humour-ah
    see i got my bulls to short at close—or am i shorting the pomo -fed

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