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Technical Tuesday – Weak Bounce Sucks in the Suckers Once Again

Posted on the 05 August 2014 by Phil's Stock World @philstockworld

Screen Shot 2014-08-04 at 8.59.13 AMWhen will they ever learn? 

Actually it's a rule of thumb at PSW that dip buyers need to get burned 3 times before they wise up to a proper correction, so they still have at least another try in them before they finally walk away from this crazy market.  As you can see from Oppenheimer's S&P chart, 56% of the S&P has plunged back below their 50 dma in the past 30 days.

This is EXACTLY what I've been warning you about.  At the same time the indexes LOOKED like they were rallying, MOST stocks were actually being dumped while a few (AAPL, for expample) were kept aloft to maintain the ILLUSION that the market was still strong.  That's how they keep the retail buyers moving in while the institutional investors head for the hills.  Yesterday's action was nothing but another low-volume bounce – the kind we teach our Members to ignore:

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Short-term, we're certainly oversold but we'll be very critical of a low-volume recovery until we see those 50 dmas retaken on the indexes.  Those are way up at 16,877 on the Dow, 1,954 on the S&P, 4,383 on the Nasdaq, 10,912 on the NYSE and 1,160 on the Russell.  Anything less than that and there's nothing to be particularly bullish about. 

Technical Tuesday – Weak Bounce Sucks in the Suckers Once Again
That doesn't stop us, of course, from picking individual short-term longs.  On Wednesday, I was on Money Talk and featured this play on GTAT as my "Options Play of the Month" and last night, GTAT knocked it out of the park on earnings and the stock shot up 15% to $15.75 already.  That's well on track to the full $14,000 for this spread and a 1,650% gain on cash!  Not bad for a few day's work, right?  

  

IN PROGRESS


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