Trading Action Tightens As Selling Stalls (a little)

There wasn't a whole to today's action - which is probably a good thing.  There was no follow through lower, instead markets traded in a more neutral manner with a set of narrow range doji. 

The Nasdaq held on to Friday's lows with a new 'sell' trigger in On-Balance-Volume.  I have marked support at 13,885, but where it's out now is probably enough to consider it close enough to just support; a small gain tomorrow would be enough to regain this support. 


The S&P had made a clean break of support with a close below its 200-day MA on Friday. Today, it finished with a small bullish 'hammer'. The small loss kept existing technicals negative, but not enough to trigger a new 'sell' trigger in the MACD.  The S&P continues to underperform relative to the Russell 2000. 


The Russell 2000 dropped out of support on light volume. The MACD trigger 'buy' is maintained and the index still holds 20-day MA support.  The index is the canary-in-the-mine for a bear market and has held up reasonably well on recent selling. A move above $207.50 would effectively negate the January sell off. 


Today's non-event was a positive for the markets, although it will take more than a one day stalling action to stop a sell off.  A respectable start to the week if you are of the bullish persuasian (and there doesn't appear to be too many of those about).

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