Daily Market Commentary: Small Caps Underperform
Markets comfortably recovered Friday's losses, doing enough to finish above Friday's start points. Bullish price channels held for another day, taking indices closer to resistance than support, although buying volume eased.
It wasn't all fun and games. The Russell 2000 was able to rally off channel support, but was unable to prevent bearish turns in its CCI and MACD. Relative strength continued to move away from Small Caps to Tech averages - a weakening of overall bullish market conditions - but not enough to break the market. However, this early weakness suggest channel support is likely to break before the index posts new highs.
The Nasdaq remains the best placed index to attract buyers. Technicals are bullish with relative strength expanding for Techs over Large (and Small) Caps.
The S&P is caught in the middle of the Small Caps vs Tech debate. Technicals are bullish, but a MACD trigger 'sell' is likely to occur in this index of the coming days.
The rally is getting to the stage where there is little to offer new buyers, but hasn't moved to an outright sell. Markets have plenty support areas to defend, but taking some profits has never hurt anyone! Where the real risk lies is jumping on the breakout bandwagon; the chance for false breakouts in this environment is high.
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It wasn't all fun and games. The Russell 2000 was able to rally off channel support, but was unable to prevent bearish turns in its CCI and MACD. Relative strength continued to move away from Small Caps to Tech averages - a weakening of overall bullish market conditions - but not enough to break the market. However, this early weakness suggest channel support is likely to break before the index posts new highs.
The Nasdaq remains the best placed index to attract buyers. Technicals are bullish with relative strength expanding for Techs over Large (and Small) Caps.
The S&P is caught in the middle of the Small Caps vs Tech debate. Technicals are bullish, but a MACD trigger 'sell' is likely to occur in this index of the coming days.
The rally is getting to the stage where there is little to offer new buyers, but hasn't moved to an outright sell. Markets have plenty support areas to defend, but taking some profits has never hurt anyone! Where the real risk lies is jumping on the breakout bandwagon; the chance for false breakouts in this environment is high.
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Zignals offers a full suite of FREE financial services including price and fundamental stock alerts, stock charts for Indian, Australian, Frankfurt, Euronext, UK, Ireland and Canadian stocks, tabbed stock quote watchlists, multi-currency portfolio manager, active stock screener with fundamental trading strategy support and trading system builder. Forex, precious metal and energy commodities too. Build your own strategy and sell it in the MarketPlace to earn real cash.
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