Anytime the DJIA rallies 215 points in one day, you must be impressed.  While I will take the gains when the come, this looks to me like a dead count bounce.  Even though we closed up on high volume, the NASDAQ, S&P 500 and DJIA all remain below their 200 day moving averages.  Deeper, [...]

     For the past few trading days, I have been grappling with a reason to be bullish.  My market timing model is oversold and certain market leaders have shown strength.  At the same time, the bears have sown such devastation that I think we are do to have a round of short covering that will lead [...]

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This market sentiment comes via Ravi Menghani who is a medical student at UCLA.
Ravi writes:
Over the long weekend I had an opportunity to browse the indices’ charts, and in my opinion, there is much to be gained on the upside.
Very briefly, retail numbers are showing strong. As Dr. Jack as mentioned many times, much [...]

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     Wednesday’s close was a disaster.  The DJIA closed below its August low and the NASDAQ closed below its 200 day moving average.  This occured on heavy volume as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) traded over 4 Billion shares.  Deeper, the market internals were poor as NYSE new lows outnumbered new highs 22 to [...]

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With the market having another wishy washy day today, I found it interesting to see the leaders holding up with for the most part gains on the day.
Who are the leaders? Your leaders are Google (GOOG), Apple (AAPL), Potash Corp (POT), Baidu.com (BIDU), First Solar (FSLR), Research in Motion (RIMM), and even Chipotle (CMG) could [...]