Monday, April 21, 2014

Monday Morning Chartology

The Morning Call

4/21/14

The Market
           
    Technical

     Monday Morning Chartology

            The S&P bounced off the lower boundary of its short term uptrend and back above its 50 day moving average this week.  It remains within uptrends across all time frames.  The very short term technical question for this week is, will the S&P manage to not make a third lower high?  A close above 1873 would avoid that.

            107 days without a new all time high.  What does that mean? (short):




            The long Treasury had a good week until Friday in which it suffered some severe whackage.  However, it remained well within its short term uptrend and above its 50 day moving average.  It is also in an intermediate term downtrend.



            GLD remains a sick puppy.  It closed inside short and intermediate term downtrends, below its 50 day moving average and this week was only able to make a lower very short term high.



            The VIX continues to trade in that year long plus trading range, though it is nearing the lower boundary of that range.  It is also in an intermediate term downtrend and below its 50 day moving average.



            Update on sentiment (short):

            Update on ‘the best stock market indicator ever’:

    Fundamental
    
     News on Stocks in Our Portfolios

o    Kimberly-Clark (KMB): Q1 EPS of $1.48 beats by $0.01.
o    Revenue of $5.27B (-0.9% Y/Y) misses by $50M.

Economics

   This Week’s Data

            The March Chicago Fed National Activity Index came in at .20, in line with expectations.

   Other

            12 valuable economic lessons (short):

Politics

  Domestic

Must read essay from George Will on liberty versus democracy (medium):

  International

            Latest from Ukraine:








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