Fake Economist Meets Authentic Technical Trader

Mish Schneider | October 26, 2011

Read on twitter today that besides the leading stocks, 70% of the S & P 500 stocks have had good earnings in the 3rd quarter. That explains a lot of the divergence traders are experiencing. Again I preface this with …


Earnings Not Kind to Stock Market Leaders

Mish Schneider | October 25, 2011

Earnings season has not been kind to the leading stocks AAPL IBM and now AMZN.  Let's not even talk about NFLX-that fall from grace happened quite some time ago. The recent run, which came to a screeching halt today, was …


Swing Traders: Does Volume Matter?

Mish Schneider | October 24, 2011

A couple of caveats remain. First, is volume. Conflicting signals in that QQQ has had a good amount of accumulation days (had one today) as does SPY (did not have one today), but, the volume remains under the daily average …


Stock Market: Fake it Til You Make it

Mish Schneider | October 23, 2011

Friday could be the classic close that cleared the recent congestion in SPY with a fourth accumulation day in volume under its belt over the last 2 weeks. Cleared the 80 monthly and 160 Exponential moving averages. That makes 121.30 …


Indexes With Volume Could Rock

Mish Schneider | October 20, 2011

Once again, volume (lack of) made buying breakouts and selling breakdowns treacherous especially after the inside day yesterday, which usually signals a directional day to follow. SPY had an accumulation day in volume although still well under the daily average. …


Stock Indexes: Inside Day Low Volume

Mish Schneider | October 19, 2011

Inside day in all indexes including in a couple of sectors/groups IYT (Transportation) and EWZ (Brazil). SPY QQQ etc all had lower volume so no troubling patterns there. Generally, traders follow the range break of an inside day.

The leaders …


Can a Rally Last Without AAPL?

Mish Schneider | October 18, 2011

Now 5th Accumulation day in volume in QQQ. It also tested the 200 DMA and held. All the leaders were down, creating yet another divergence on this rally. AAPL earnings disappoint.  SPY managed an accumulation as well and since Friday, …


Can NASDAQ hang on?

Mish Schneider | October 17, 2011

The QQQ worked off an overbought condition on a 2-day RSI and dropped on very light volume, although some of the other market internals are still showing overbought. No distribution day, thereby keeping the 4 accumulation days of volume over …


Stock Market: Does it Speak to You?

Mish Schneider | October 16, 2011

Slope in the 50 Day Moving Average in SPY finally turned positive just as the 2-Day RSI closes in on overbought. QQQ cleared the summer/fall range, posted a fourth accumulation day in volume and has gone beyond overbought on the …


Stock Trading: What is Overbought and What has Room to Grow?

Mish Schneider | October 14, 2011