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  1. Strong open, weak close


    5/02/12

    A strong manufacturing report ignited stocks shortly after the open yesterday but the large early gains were diminished by the close. The early 125-point gain in the Dow turned into a 66-point gain.


    For the TSP, the C-fund was up 0.57% yesterday, the S-fund gained 0.20%, the I-fund fell 0.22%, and the F-fund (bonds) ...
  2. First Trading Day in May

    For whatever it's worth, in 2011, the first trading day in May marked the intraday high of the year.

    The Dow was up 118-points intraday on May 2, 2011 to 12,928, but reversed and closed down 3 on the day to 12,807.

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  3. Is there a lid on the market?

    The US Dollar Index (USD) continues its slide and today (04/30/12) broke through a contracting formation (pennant), as viewed on the first chart. The 50 exponential moving average (ema) was breached four trading days ago at 79.38 and now we see a steep decline towards the 200 ema at 78.51. Today (04/30/12) the USD index closed only 0.20 above. Fairly substantial support is near the USD index 78 area. The slow stochastic is quite oversold and may be starting a bottoming process soon. Previous ...
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