Daily Market Commentary: Weakness Prevails for Technology
It was a relatively nondescript day for Large Cap Indices. The S&P lost a handful of points, but retained a large proportion of its prior gain. In addition, it continued to gain ground relative to its more speculative Small Caps brethren.
Small Caps took a slightly bigger hit than Large Caps. But losses were still relatively minor.
Where the trouble lay was in the semiconductor index. Monday's losses brought the index back too support with a net bearish turn in technicals. The index also finished on the last major moving average available for support, namely its 50-day MA.
Events in the semiconductor index will heavily influence the Nasdaq and Nasdaq 100. The Nasdaq finished the day with the largest loss on a MACD trigger 'sell'. But the index remained well above the 20-day MA despite the relative shift from Technology to Large Cap stocks. Look for Tech weakness to expand as money rotates into more defensive sectors.
The rally looks to be redirecting money flows into more defensive sectors. However, this should be tempered by my current holding of $XLU - which only escaped its stop by the skin of its teeth. Having said that, I'm pleased with the action in the Utility sector.
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Small Caps took a slightly bigger hit than Large Caps. But losses were still relatively minor.
Where the trouble lay was in the semiconductor index. Monday's losses brought the index back too support with a net bearish turn in technicals. The index also finished on the last major moving average available for support, namely its 50-day MA.
Events in the semiconductor index will heavily influence the Nasdaq and Nasdaq 100. The Nasdaq finished the day with the largest loss on a MACD trigger 'sell'. But the index remained well above the 20-day MA despite the relative shift from Technology to Large Cap stocks. Look for Tech weakness to expand as money rotates into more defensive sectors.
The rally looks to be redirecting money flows into more defensive sectors. However, this should be tempered by my current holding of $XLU - which only escaped its stop by the skin of its teeth. Having said that, I'm pleased with the action in the Utility sector.
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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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