A Flat Summer for the First Time in 21 Years Balances Bears Versus Bulls

(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on September 2, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) The summer of 2013 delivered a flat performance for the S&P 500 (SPY). The S&P 500 closed at 1,630.74 on May 31st. The 1,632.97 close on August 29th ended the summer … Read more

Daily S&P 500 Trading: Monday Under-performance, Tuesday Out-performance And Other Patterns

(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on May 16, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) On Wednesday, May 15, the venerable Art Cashin on CNBC offered his observations on the strange consistency in the Tuesday trade since the S&P 500 (SPY) printed its low in 2012. … Read more

A Very Bearish Breakdown for Apple

Yikes. Today was a particularly ugly day for Apple (AAPL) fans and bulls. The stock followed through on weakness from last week’s product event with a MAJOR bearish breakdown below critical support at the 50 and 200-day moving averages (DMAs). This also takes AAPL below its “Icahn support.” (Nightly Business Report blamed news of a … Read more

T2108 Update (September 16, 2013) – A Fresh Surge Tainted By A Fade

(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are highly gap down to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other … Read more

T2108 Update (September 13, 2013) – Laying In Wait

(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are highly gap down to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other … Read more