{"id":2598,"date":"2010-01-21T08:42:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T13:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2010-01-21T08:42:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T13:42:47","slug":"before-the-open-jan-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=2598","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Jan 21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Good morning. Happy Thursday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The market has been range bound since the beginning of the year. Little rallies have gotten sold; mini dips have gotten bought. And since the range is so tight, we&#8217;ve had several instances where the market has gone from the top to the bottom and back within a day or so. Such has been the case recently.<!--more--> Over the last 6 days, the S&amp;P moved up 3 times and down 3 times and has touched support and resistance almost every day. Here are the daily and 15-min SPX charts. <\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/spx012110-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/spx012110-2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Two weeks ago I started getting more conservative. The number of good set ups was declining, and although the indexes had just moved to a new high, I felt the charts needed time to reset. We&#8217;re still there. The charts still need more time. Plus earnings season is picking up, so good charts can be destroyed in short order. Be patient. Keep trades short term right now, and don&#8217;t over trade. Let the market chop and churn. Then get aggressive on the next leg. More after the open.<\/span><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=2586\">Earnings Reports<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=2588\">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 Thursday. The market has been range bound since the beginning of the year. Little rallies have gotten sold; mini dips have gotten bought. And since the range is so tight, we&#8217;ve had several instances where the market has gone from the top to the bottom and back within a day or so. [&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\/2598"}],"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=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}