{"id":4135,"date":"2011-03-30T07:25:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T12:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=4135"},"modified":"2011-03-30T07:25:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T12:25:07","slug":"before-the-open-mar-30-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=4135","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Mar 30)"},"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 mostly up; Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, and Singapore gained more than 1%. Europe is currently up across the board; France and Germany are up more than 1%. Futures here in the States point towards a fairly large gap up open for the cash market.<!--more--><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Dow and Russell closed yesterday right at their March highs, so with gains the next two days, they&#8217;ll each finish March up for the month. The Nas and S&amp;P are lagging some but are still in good shape and could still close up for the month if the next two days go well. This is pretty amazing considering what the market has had to absorb.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We&#8217;ve been down this road so many times. The market should drop for a number of reasons, but it doesn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s always better to trade what IS happening rather than what you think is happening or what should happen. And besides, trading what is happening is much less stressful because you don&#8217;t have to figure out the future. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">There&#8217;s still overhead supply to contend with, and it&#8217;s a slight concern the move off the recent low has come on light volume. Oh and then there&#8217;s the fact that the S&amp;P has moved up 70 points in less than two weeks and is still in need of a rest. The last few weeks have not been easy (market went straight down and is now going straight up), but if you maintained a level head, at the very least you&#8217;ve stayed out of trouble. 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=4126\">Earnings Reports<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=4128\">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 Wednesday. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mostly up; Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, and Singapore gained more than 1%. Europe is currently up across the board; France and Germany are up more than 1%. Futures here in the States point towards a fairly large 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\/4135"}],"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=4135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}