[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets Friday’s month ending bounce-back is now in the rear view mirror as the floodgates opened this morning, and the major indexes headed straight south just about uninterruptedly until they found a support point this afternoon, which softened the damage for the day. Nevertheless, chart damage was done with the S&P dropping below it’s …
A Broad Rally Ends A Poor Month
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets A solid and broad rally right after the opening bell pulled the major indexes out of the doldrums with the bulls finally managing to reduce some of the losses sustained not only in March but YTD as well. Today’s leaders were the dogs of the month, namely tech and energy. We’ll have to …
Tech Leads Markets Lower In Choppy Session
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets Choppy and sloppy best describes today’s session, as the major indexes vacillated around their respective unchanged lines with the Nasdaq showing the most weakness as tech shares continued their swoon. It was a tug-of-war between good economic growth data along with home sales on one side and the bearish forces still in play …
Tech Sector Imitates A Swan Dive
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets And it all started so peacefully. The markets opened on the plus side, after Monday’s euphoric rebound, when, after hugging the unchanged line for a while, the bottom suddenly dropped out, and the tech sector (-3.5%) did its best imitation of a swan dive pulling the entire equity arena with it. In the …
ETF Tracker Newsletter For March 23, 2018; International “Sell” Signal Triggered
ETF Tracker StatSheet https://theetfbully.com/2018/03/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etf-tracker-newsletter-updated-through-03-22-2018/ DOWNSIDE MOMENTUM ACCELERATES [Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets For a while it looked like the major indexes were able to stage a modest rebound by trending slightly below and above their unchanged lines. However, that dream was short-lived as downward momentum suddenly accelerated and equities ended up diving into the close to finish an …
Trade War Threats Hammer Markets; ‘Buy’ Signals Remain Intact
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets I was thinking this morning that something had changed in the markets over the past week or so. All of a sudden, stocks seem to react to day-to-day headline events and no longer consider ‘any’ news as good news for the bullish crowd, which is what we saw throughout 2017. Supporting a similar …