S&P 500 2/9/12

POSTED BY Swing Trader on Feb 9 under Uncategorized

The S&P 500 intra- day 5 minute chart clearly shows the index is in an upward channel, see chart below.

Upward channels normally resolve to the downside. A drop below the lower channel, with confirmation, Could indicate a short term reversal of index.

 

 

S&P 500 Market Summary 02/08/12

POSTED BY Swing Trader on Feb 8 under Uncategorized

The markets opened up and made higher highs and then decided to test the 200 moving average. The rest of the day the index slowly moved up to record an up day. See the 5 minute intra-day chart below.

The 5 minute intra-day chart below would indicate that we are in an upward channel [...]

Stock Market Overview - 2/5/12

POSTED BY Swing Trader on Feb 6 under Uncategorized

The Stock maket had another strong up week last week. The question now is, are we going to continue upward or not.

Looking at the monthly chart for the S&P500 and we see that we are approaching resistance at 1370 that was set in May 2011.

The daily chart shows the strong movement past the low [...]

Weekly Stock Market Overview – 01/29/12

POSTED BY Swing Trader on Jan 29 under Uncategorized

S&500 Monthly Chart

The close price is above the 200, 50 and 21 period moving average, which is bullish.

The S&P500 close on Friday was right at the upper channel of wedge channel. If the price can get through this resistance, the next stop would be the previous high of $137.18, set in Q2 2010, with [...]

S&P500 bottom for 1/27/12?

POSTED BY Swing Trader on Jan 27 under Uncategorized

Looks like the S&P500 wants to possibly create a bottom here on the 5 minute chart.

SPY ETF 1/27/12 mid day

POSTED BY Swing Trader on Jan 27 under Uncategorized

We keep making lower lows on SPY ETF 5 minute intra-day chart. Looks like we may test the last low around $130.

The three moving average are all now downward pointing and in the right order. The slower (200) is first with the second being the 50 and the fastest (20).

Stock Market January 27, 2012

POSTED BY Swing Trader on Jan 27 under Uncategorized

The SPY ETF closed down significantly but not at its lows for the day. The 20 period moving average penetrated the 200 period moving average generating a bearish indication.

The 50 period moving average did not penetrate the 200 moving average. This would increase the bearish sentiment if this happens today and based on [...]

Markets – Intraday – 01/26/12

POSTED BY Swing Trader on Jan 26 under Uncategorized

Looking at the S&P500 on an intra-day 5 minute candlestick chart, I will sell SPXU (currently long) if the 5 minute chart shows a low and a subsequent higher low.

 

Technical Analysis of the Market - August 22 2011 unitedfinancialplanner.com

POSTED BY Swing Trader on Aug 22 under Uncategorized

Today was a small up day for three major US Stock Market indexes.
The upward movement did not break out of the intra-day 15 minute chart of the SPY.
It looks like we may come closer to testing the recent lows.
Need to see the SPY break out on the upside by coming out of the descending channel. [...]

S&P 500 - Possible Candlestick Evening Star

POSTED BY Swing Trader on Jul 8 under Uncategorized

The S&P 500 (SSO 200% of SP 500 ETF) created an up gap on opening and held the gap breaking through a week resistance of of 1350 on the S&P.
It was also the eighth day of a strong bull run.
Yesterday candlestick formation could be defined as a Evening Star.  The previous day was up and [...]

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