{"id":1813,"date":"2009-09-09T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2009-09-09T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T12:39:00","slug":"before-the-open-sep-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=1813","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Sep 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Happy Wednesday.<br \/>\nThis is going to be kept short because my computer keeps freezing up on me. At times it\u2019s taking 30 seconds for a single page to load.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41<br \/>\nThe Asian\/Pacific markets closed mixed \u2013 there were no 1% movers.<br \/>\nEurope is currently mostly up \u2013 there\u2019s one 1% gainer. &#8230;<!--more--><br \/>\nFutures here in the States suggest a slightly up open for the cash market. This comes off a day the market gapped up and traded in a tight range all day.<br \/>\nThe losses from last Tuesday\u2019s big down day have now been recovered. The bulls got a little scare\u2026a handful of decent shorts lined up, but they were only good for a couple days\u2026it was certainly a reason to trim underperforming longs\u2026yet here we are a week later with higher highs and higher lows still in place. The S&amp;P is up 5 for Sep and is only 15 points from its high. That\u2019s not bad. Here\u2019s the daily.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/before-the-open\/images\/spx090909-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAnd here\u2019s the weekly. We have a rising wedge (bearish) butting up against a very thin trading zone where very little volume took place (there won\u2019t be many traders looking to get out even within the zone).<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/before-the-open\/images\/spx090909-2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThat\u2019s it for now. I\u2019ll make more comments after the open. I gotta figure out why this computer is running so slow.<br \/>\nheadlines at <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/apf\/archive.html\">Yahoo Finance<\/a><br \/>\nstocks to watch from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/wednesdays-biggest-gaining-and-declining-stocks-2009-09-09\">MarketWatch<\/a><br \/>\ntoday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/briefing.com\/Investor\/Public\/Calendars\/UpgradesDowngrades.htm\">upgrades\/downgrades<\/a><br \/>\nyesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=1811\">Sector Performance<\/a><br \/>\nthis week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=1802\">Earnings Reports<\/a><br \/>\nthis week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=1799\">Economic Numbers<\/a><br \/>\nopen a real-time futures demo account at&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinityfutures.com\/IATdemosignup.aspx?ref=aglb\"><img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/banners\/v3468x60.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nvar gaJsHost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/ssl.\" : \"http:\/\/www.\");\ndocument.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + gaJsHost + \"google-analytics.com\/ga.js' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nvar pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\"UA-6273151-1\");\npageTracker._initData();\npageTracker._trackPageview();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Happy Wednesday. This is going to be kept short because my computer keeps freezing up on me. At times it\u2019s taking 30 seconds for a single page to load.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41 The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mixed \u2013 there were no 1% movers. Europe is currently mostly up \u2013 there\u2019s one 1% gainer. &#8230;<\/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":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}