{"id":2671,"date":"2010-02-12T08:24:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T13:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2010-02-12T08:24:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T13:24:34","slug":"before-the-open-feb-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=2671","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Feb 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Good morning. Happy Friday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mostly up &#8211; gains were not great. Europe is currently mostly down &#8211; losses are not too bad. Futures here in the States point towards a gap down open for the cash market. This comes off yesterday where the indexes closed at new highs for the week and have recovered about half of the massive sell-off that took place Thursday the 4th. <!--more--><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">As stated yesterday, I believe the market is at a critical juncture regarding the near term. It&#8217;s either going to bust out and give us a mini move up or it&#8217;ll fall flat on its face. There are many charts near resistance, so something has to give. Here are the 30-min and 15-min SPX charts I&#8217;ve posted a few times this week. You can see where support and resistance are and other key levels. <\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/spx021210-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/spx021210-2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Three day weekend ahead&#8230;the market is closed Monday.<\/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=2653\">Earnings Reports<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=2655\">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. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mostly up &#8211; gains were not great. Europe is currently mostly down &#8211; losses are not too bad. Futures here in the States point towards a gap down open for the cash market. This comes off yesterday where the indexes closed at new highs for the week [&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\/2671"}],"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=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}