{"id":2162,"date":"2009-10-30T07:17:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T12:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2009-10-30T07:17:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T12:17:02","slug":"before-the-open-oct-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=2162","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Oct 30)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Good morning. Happy Friday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This week has played out nicely. I turned bearish over the weekend&#8230;my 6 bearish set ups calmly moved to their targets. Now I&#8217;m in wait and see mode. Besides the easy money being gone, the next week is unclear. The S&amp;P dropped right to my target (mid 1040&#8217;s) and is now bouncing. Support and resistance from here are not easily identifiable.<!--more--> Not only do the charts need to reset, the market needs to decide what it wants to do next. Several key groups have registered lower lows recently &#8211; were these false breakdowns or the beginning of an extended move down? This is what the market needs to decide. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">As noted a couple times, the pullback wasn&#8217;t that much different that previous pullbacks, so there&#8217;s no reason to get super bearish or assume the uptrend is over. If it doesn&#8217;t make sense for the market to keep rallying, don&#8217;t worry about it. The extent of the move off the Mar low already doesn&#8217;t make sense.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Here are the daily and weekly SPX charts. I see nothing wrong with the action.<\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/before-the-open\/images\/spx103009-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/before-the-open\/images\/spx103009-2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">headlines at <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/apf\/archive.html\">Yahoo Finance<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/briefing.com\/Investor\/Public\/Calendars\/UpgradesDowngrades.htm\">upgrades\/downgrades<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=2116\">Earnings Reports<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=2120\">Economic Numbers<\/a><\/span><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 Friday. This week has played out nicely. I turned bearish over the weekend&#8230;my 6 bearish set ups calmly moved to their targets. Now I&#8217;m in wait and see mode. Besides the easy money being gone, the next week is unclear. The S&amp;P dropped right to my target (mid 1040&#8217;s) and is now [&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":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162"}],"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=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}