Pre-Holiday Trading – No Heroes Please

What Thursday’s Action Tells
You

The 34th trading day (familiar number to
some) of
the SPX
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rally from 1076 – 1146, +6.5%, was an air pocket day
right from the opening bell. It was also after the last day of the June
report
card quarter, so there were not many Generals around holding up price levels
in
the major holdings. The extent of the knife going into the holiday weekend was
a
bit of a surprise, but there was a nice up move off the low end of the
recent
trading range for the
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and
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coming after the 1:45 p.m. ET
intraday lows.

The downside leadership was led by the semis,
with the
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-3.8% (Intel chatter once again). The basics, with the
XLB
-2.0%, and the brokers (XBD) -1.3%. Both the semis and brokers have been
struggling at their 200-day EMAs, and as I said yesterday, that leadership
is
needed if there is to be a fifth leg up.

NYSE volume was 1.49 billion shares, with a
volume ratio of 21, with 1.16 billion down and 314 mm up. The 4 MA remains
neutral at 48 and has ranged from 58 – 47 over the past five trading days
which
highlights the choppiness. Breadth was -486, and the 4 MA is now +229. The
SPX
and Dow
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both closed down -1.0%, with the
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-1.9% and
the
Nasdaq
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$COMPQ |
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-1.6%.

 

25.5pt’>Monday
6/28
25.5pt’>Wednesday
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