Boy it's been tough sledding up here folks. And now the market is being tested with the big write offs of the banks. With Friday's unemployment report looming this is getting tricky. i believe we are in for one more BLAST to the upside but lets take Friday's action seriously. Despite only modest percentage losses in the broad market the declines were matched by higher turnover. Total volume in the NYSE rose 14% above the previous day's level, while volume in the Nasdaq similarly ticked 9% higher. The losses on higher volume caused both the S&P and Nasdaq to register a bearish "distribution day." Sorry!
This smelled of end of qtr institutional selling into strength, as such it was the 1st such day of higher volume losses since September 7.
Friday's pullback caused the S&P to settle just below support of its uptrend line from the September 10 low, still within the range of its recent sideways channel of consolidation. This is how a market builds it's own artificial overhead resistance... Thanks to tech-related sectors, the Nasdaq Composite has been showing much more relative strength than the S&P 500. The Naz looks ready to test resistance of its multi-year high that was set in mid-July of this year. The Nasdaq also remains well above support of its intermediate-term uptrend line, just above the 2,650 area....... ~ stoney