{"id":617,"date":"2009-02-19T06:30:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T11:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=617"},"modified":"2009-02-19T06:30:55","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T11:30:55","slug":"before-the-open-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Happy Thursday.<br \/>\nThe SPX dropped 100 points off its high from last week and couldn\u2019t muster even a small bounce off its low yesterday. It seems inevitable the Nov lows will need to be tested and the VIX will need to spike before any meaningful bottom is put in place. Until there\u2019s a complete washout (evidenced by 90% of stocks dropping along with 90% of volume funneling into those declining issues), bounces are shortable.<br \/>\nHere\u2019s the 30-min SPX chart. That 5-week consolidation period will now act as a big block of resistance. Upside potential to the low 800\u2019s should be relatively easy. Then things get tough.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/stocks-options-futures-trading-before-the-open\/images\/spx021909.png\"><br \/>\nHere\u2019s the 10-min SPX chart. After two days of relatively quiet trading, the index sits just below new formed resistance with a thin trading area above. The overall trend is down, but hey, wouldn\u2019t a gap fill be nice. I\u2019d rather short a bounce than a break of support.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/stocks-options-futures-trading-before-the-open\/images\/spx021909-2.png\"><br \/>\nheadlines at <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/apf\/archive.html\">Yahoo Finance<\/a><br \/>\nmovers &#038; shakers from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/Thursdays-biggest-gaining-declining-stocks\/story.aspx?guid={A7EAC202-46FE-4BCE-A816-DD11C5F66CE9}\">MarketWatch<\/a><br \/>\ntoday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/briefing.com\/Investor\/Public\/Calendars\/UpgradesDowngrades.htm\">upgrades\/downgrades<\/a><br \/>\nthis week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/economic-releases-earnings-reports\/2009\/02\/15.cfm\">earnings &#038; economic releases<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Happy Thursday. The SPX dropped 100 points off its high from last week and couldn\u2019t muster even a small bounce off its low yesterday. It seems inevitable the Nov lows will need to be tested and the VIX will need to spike before any meaningful bottom is put in place. Until there\u2019s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}