The major stock indexes overcame a weak open to trade higher today, with volume a tad higher than yesterday.
Officially, the Dow Industrials rose 1.1% on NYSE volume of 5.1 billion shares, while the NASDAQ advanced 1.4% on 2.1 billion. The leadership profile remains mildly positive, with 140 stocks making new highs versus 65 making new lows.
The short term momentum oscillators remain negative, confirming the bearish stance of the AlphaKing Trading Indicator. We have no new trades at this time.
The stock indexes continue to trade sideways under important moving averages, and the technical set-up continues to call for lower prices once the current rally attempt runs out of steam. The NASDAQ closed an important gap today seen in the intra-day charts, which is classic technical action prior to moves to new lows. The news over in Europe is so far a non event, which offers little in the way of trading help to either the bulls or the bears. We plan to aggressively add to our shorts and inverse ETFs on any continuation of the current rally attempt.
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Kevin Wilde, Chief Trading Strategist AlphaKing.com.