28 March 2011

SP 500 and NDX Futures Daily Charts - Go Long If You Want to be a Big Money Playah


Weak buying from the technical trade caused stocks to rise most of the day, but a definite lack of legitimate retail and institutional buyers, indicated by low volumes, caused equities to sell off into the close, as the momentum players went flat and hit the exits.

Nothing is really broken yet support wise, but the news from Japan and the Middle East remains a drag on the stock optimists.

Europe is troubling, and although it seems to be largely in la-la land, the States are probably heading for a long, hot summer.

Timmy and Ben are under this market. Whether that will be enough is hard to say.  It depends on what happens. 

There is some thought that if the correction does not materialize by the end of the second quarter in June, that there will be a summer rally as fund managers sitting on the sidelines scramble to catch up.   

It might be more likely that they will be sucked in first, and then taken for a ride by the hellhounds of Wall Street.  The market will let us know which scenario unfolds.