{"id":2474,"date":"2009-12-21T08:16:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T13:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=2474"},"modified":"2009-12-21T08:16:58","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T13:16:58","slug":"before-the-open-dec-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=2474","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Dec 21)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a nice weekend.<\/span>
\nThe Asian\/Pacific markets closed mostly down; Europe is currently up across the board. Futures here in the States point towards a moderate gap up open for the cash market. This comes off a down week where the market was strong Mon and Fri and week in the middle.<\/span>
\nI don’t have much to add to the charts posted over the weekend. The overall trend is up; there is no short term trend. The market has been in consolidation mode for almost 6 weeks. Dips are getting bought; rallies are getting sold; the market is gapping often. In the end, the indexes have been range bound. The small caps have strengthened lately, but the banks are still lagging. Here’s the daily SPX – just a choppy mess, but we’ve had many good trading opps. As long as you’re ahead of the curve taking profits, there’s been a lot of money made.<\/span>
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\nThat’s it for now.<\/span>
\nheadlines at Yahoo Finance<\/a><\/span>
\ntoday’s upgrades\/downgrades<\/a><\/span>
\nthis week’s Earnings Reports<\/a><\/span>
\nthis week’s Economic Numbers<\/a><\/span>
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