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Editor’s Note: All major U.S. stock markets are closed today, Sept. 5, in observance of Labor Day. As I write this update on Friday afternoon, the S&P 500 is down just over 2% on the week. Stocks sold off hard last Friday and then continued that trend during the first three days of this week. …
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The venerable S&P 500 (ES) futures market is tumbling again today as the new month gets underway. So far, the bulls are nowhere to be found, and that potentially sets up the ES for more downside. However, with the market at a short term low, there may be better entry opportunities for short ideas ahead. …
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Last Friday’s trading session was a bloodbath… After Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made aggressive statements regarding a path of more interest rate hikes, the indexes sold off hard all day. The S&P 500 dropped 3.4%, the Nasdaq 100 declined a whopping 4% and the Dow Jones fell just over 3%, or more than 1,000 …
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Stocks sold off hard on Friday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made remarks about taking aggressive action on interest rates. He was clearly setting the tone for a 75-basis-point (0.75%) rate hike at the next meeting, which the market was obviously not anticipating. Even though we expected this pullback from the 200-day moving average, …
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We’ve been looking for a potential bullish turnaround in the benchmark S&P 500 (ES) futures market lately… But it is still trading within its longer term bearish trend. The market just got rejected at the long term down trend line and has broken the short term counter trend line bearish. Now, we’re just looking for …
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The S&P 500 (SPX) Standard and Poor’s 500 is a freely weighted portfolio measurement index of 500 of the biggest bond firms in the US. It is one of the most often used stock indexes.
The S&P 500 index is a capitalization-weighted index and 27,5% of the market capitalization of the index is made up of the top ten stocks. Apple Inc., Microsoft, Amazon.com, Facebook, Alphabet Inc. (class A & C), Tesla, Inc., Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Johnson & Johnson were among the ten most important firms inside the index in terms of weighting. See S&P 500 firms for a list of components of the index.
Watchlist Update: Why You Need to Act Fast in This Market
Last week, I pointed out the upside reversal day we saw in the S&P 500 and how I thought the market would bounce from there. I also discussed the 3,900 area being a key support level for the index. Stocks broke above this level in late July on bullish volume, which triggered me to call …
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