August 20, 2008 Stock Market Recap

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This was a session which I like to label as a chopfest. The bulls can claim a victory though since the indices finished higher on the day and volume, while still on the light side, increased a bit. But I'll call it a minor victory for the bulls since the advance decline line were mixed -- positive on the NYSE and negative on the Nasdaq -- and the indices didn't even regain all of Monday's losses.




Oil broke its July trendline today in unimpressive fashion. It may be worth keeping an eye on though...


Trend Table

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TrendNasdaqS&P 500Russell 2000
Long-TermDownDownUp
IntermediateUpDownUp
Short-termDownDownDown

(+) Indicates an upward reclassification today
(-) Indicates a downward reclassification today
Lat Indicates a Lateral trend

*** I'm simply using the indices' relations to their 200, 50 and 10-day moving averages to tell me the long, intermediate and short-term trends, respectively.

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Hey Mike,

I hope you were in SOLF today :)

Thanks for the list of recent links. They are quite interesting.

You would do MUCh better if you used a charting system other than 'stock charts.com'

Pro's don't use stockcharts.com :)

Mark,

If you bothered to read anything on this site about what I use to trade you'd realize that I only use stockcharts.com to post charts to this site. I trade off of QuoteTracker charts and used eSignal before that.

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