{"id":2504,"date":"2009-12-30T08:26:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T13:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2009-12-30T08:26:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T13:26:01","slug":"before-the-open-dec-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=2504","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Dec 30)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Good morning. Happy Wednesday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We entered this week with the trend being up and all the indexes at their highs. So far nothing has happened to change that, but nothing has happened to reinforce it either. The market hasn&#8217;t moved much this week and volume has been light. We&#8217;ve had many stocks move to their targets but not much in terms of new traders. Such is the life of a trader during this week. <!--more--><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mixed today &#8211; China gained 1.6%. Europe is down across the board &#8211; losses are moderate. Futures here in the States suggest a gap down open for the cash market. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Here&#8217;s the daily S&amp;P. Not exactly an exciting and energetic breakout. We haven&#8217;t gotten much follow through or separation from resistance and volume has been nonexistent. I see a big move coming soon. We either get an hysterical squeeze up or a stiff correction.<\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/spx123009.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=2492\">Earnings Reports<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=2494\">Economic Numbers<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Happy Wednesday. We entered this week with the trend being up and all the indexes at their highs. So far nothing has happened to change that, but nothing has happened to reinforce it either. The market hasn&#8217;t moved much this week and volume has been light. We&#8217;ve had many stocks move to their [&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\/2504"}],"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=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}