What is the Russell 2000 Telling Us?
You Say ‘Home’ I Say ‘Depot’
This morning Home Depot served up its latest earnings release and upped its full year profit forecast. Sales however were down…, expenses as well. Either way, the stock is up around 1.50% as of this writing and again touching on the critical $18 resistance area. We remain long a core Bucket 3 holding of HD […]
Tuesday Morning Thoughts – Heavy Tape
The tape is feeling heavy, no doubt about it. We touched on it in the weekly newsletter and all day yesterday. Yesterday we saw some rotation into the financials and out of technology, although by the end of the day the financials too closed near the lows of the session. Yesterday we started the hedging […]
Russell 2000 Broke Below 8 Month Uptrend
Note yesterday the Russell 2000 broke below the uptrend line in place since last September and also broke below the 50 day moving average (yellow line). Just something to keep in mind.
Heads Up On Starbucks!
As we mentioned here yesterday, SBUX is displaying a nice narrowing trading range, also know as a bullish pennant. The pattern usually resolves to the upside, but should it break to the downside could lead to a quick and violent move. As of this writing the stock is just dropping out of the formation to […]
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Financials At Important Intraday Level
The financials as measured by the popular XLF etf is at a an important intraday level right this moment. After gapping down at the open to start the week today, it then led the market higher and currently sits at just about the mid-point of last Friday's trading session. If it folds much below the […]
Technology Sector vs The S&P 500
As I scoured the S&P 500 sectors over the weekend in search of the'easiest' hedge/short I came accross the technology sector (as measured by the SPDR Technology Sector ETF XLK) and noticed the following: 1. While the XLK is currently still 10% off the 2007 highs, it did put in a more than solid performance […]
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Exxon Mobil A Tell For Energy Sector
The energy sector has been an underperformer over the past two weeks and currently sits at an important support price level, if we look at the XLE etf. For clues of behavior in the XLF I tend to look at Exxon Mobil(XOM), which currently also sits at critical support. A break below and price could […]