{"id":3116,"date":"2010-06-09T07:19:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T12:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2010-06-09T07:19:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T12:19:21","slug":"before-the-open-jun-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=3116","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Jun 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Good morning. Happy Wednesday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mixed with a bullish bias. Europe is currently up across the board. Futures here in the States point towards a gap up open for the cash market. <!--more--><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">There are many people calling yesterday&#8217;s low THE low for the near term and expect prices to move up from here. I&#8217;m not against the idea. The charts don&#8217;t look too encouraging, but trends fall into different stages &#8211; new, established, mature. The downtrend has reached maturity which doesn&#8217;t guarantee it&#8217;ll reverse, but it does tell us the risk\/reward for entering new shorts is not favorable. So now is the time to play good defense. If you&#8217;re a short term trader, you&#8217;ve already taken profits on shorts. If you&#8217;re a longer term trader, you&#8217;re committed to holding through a bounce. Either way works &#8211; just don&#8217;t be middle of the road.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Here&#8217;s the 60-min chart. It broke down from a small rising wedge last week and thus far has held  its low. <\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/spx060910-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Backing up, here&#8217;s the daily. It also held its Feb low, so again, we don&#8217;t know what will happen, but we can recognize the downtrend as being mature and not conducive to initiating new shorts.<\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/spx060910-2.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=3106\">Earnings Reports<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=3108\">Economic Numbers<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Happy Wednesday. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mixed with a bullish bias. Europe is currently up across the board. Futures here in the States point towards a gap up open for the cash market.<\/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\/3116"}],"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=3116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}