Just Another Summer Friday

Despite the
red tint
to the averages and most leaders Friday, what selling there
was came on ebbing activity.

I will need to see more volume on days
like this to get worried about the health of the intermediate trend.

Thus, a look at Juniper
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MRV
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, PMC-Sierra
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, Brocade
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, Sycamore
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Tibco
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, etc. revealed little or no urgency to the selling.

The highlight in the bells was Sun
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jumping to the top of its four-month base on heavy turnover.

Elsewhere among benchmarks, things
were quiet, with Nortel
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penetrating fresh turf and EMC
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setting
another new high.

Cisco
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, locked in a
four-month base, has only shown two distribution days in the last nine
weeks…it appears to be forming a head-and-shoulders bottom.

Among the names, Applied Micro
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inched up toward the top of its handle.

Check Point rebounded for the second
day as it tries to resume development of the right side of its cup.

Globespan
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continued to
constructively build a handle to go with its four-month cup.

Ditto for Human Genome
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,
and its low-level handle.

Verisign
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is showing decent
money flow characteristics as it rocks back and forth within a six-week band.

Bookham Tech
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, an optical
play, emerged from a cup-with-high-handle on volume over double its usual.

Tibco
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completed the first
week of a handle to go with its four-month, double-bottom base.

Recent new issue Pixelworks
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drove out of a six-day pullback on average trade.