Mixed Data Pressures Index Futures


Marc Dupee will be out of the
office until October 9. In his absence this column is being written by
TradersWire’s Duke Heberlein.

More earnings warnings and mixed economic data have
pressured stock index futures Friday, lifting December T-bonds
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up 8
ticks to 98.17 while pushing the Dow futures
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down 100 points to
10748 and the NASDAQ 100 futures
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(from the Implosion-5
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) down 82.50 at 3400. December S&P futures
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have not
escaped either, losing 20 to trade currently at 1436.

Unleaded gasoline
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has triggered a
Turtle
Soup Plus One Buy
now up .0130 to .8480. November soybeans
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, also
on that list as well as the 10/100 Low Volatility list, has also triggered,
currently up 3 to 488.

December cocoa
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, after rising
nearly 60 points in the last three trading days, is nearing the breakdown point
of Turtle Soup Plus
One Sell
, now down 12 at 823, and the Canadian dollar
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has
forme
d a bearish outside-day down in its pullback from lows, appearing to
have stalled its up move off its recent bottom.