{"id":2178,"date":"2009-11-02T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T13:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2009-11-02T08:23:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T13:23:08","slug":"before-the-open-nov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=2178","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Nov 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a nice weekend.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">As usual I don&#8217;t have much to add to my weekend report. The short term trend is down; the market is in the process of breaking down. We&#8217;ve had some price movement that has made no sense the last 7 months, so not much would surprise me, but my bias for now is still to the downside. <!--more-->The Russell and other internals I&#8217;ve talked about need to improve before the market can re-establish positive sentiment. And of course the dollar needs to continue its downtrend. I&#8217;m not calling an end to the move that started in early March; I&#8217;m just saying the market has some work to do before a move up can stick. Here&#8217;s the 60-min chart. The next unfilled gap is near SPX 1020.<\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/spx110209.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=2166\">Earnings Reports<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=2168\">Economic Numbers<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n  var gaJsHost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/ssl.\" : \"http:\/\/www.\"); document.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[\n  var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\"UA-6273151-1\"); pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a nice weekend. As usual I don&#8217;t have much to add to my weekend report. The short term trend is down; the market is in the process of breaking down. We&#8217;ve had some price movement that has made no sense the last 7 months, so not much would [&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\/2178"}],"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=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}