A weaker day for the indices, but the degree of intraday buying continues to improve compared to the past couple of weeks. Tuesday's post-holiday "Top-8" pick list came in at a bullish 7 minutes , while Wednesday's was slightly slower at 11 minutes - but not bad for a down day. Seven stocks made it to the "20-appearance" list, but it still took the scan all day to come up with these picks. If you would like to try a full version of the Trade-Ideas software, follow this link for a free 7-day trial. If you are interested in knowing what I do with the "Top-8" and "20-appearance" data I have prepared a report here . Trade Ideas

The Trade Ideas scan improved over yesterday's sloppy buying; the "Top-8" list covered 13 minutes , with six stocks featuring more than 20-times on the scan. It's still a long way from been truly bullish, but it's better than nothing. It was a relatively quiet week - the two things to watch in the indices are: [1] the upcoming 'Death Cross' in the Russell 2000 - double resistance trouble: and [2] the Dead-Man zone bound by 200-day MA support and 50-day MA resistance: Fallond

Although the markets closed higher, it was a return to the bearish tone for the Trade Ideas scan. The "Top-8" list came in at a disappointing 2 hours and 20 minutes , with no stocks qualifying for the "20-appearance" list. Not good news if you are a bull. If you would like to try a full version of the Trade-Ideas software, follow this link for a free 7-day trial. If you are interested in knowing what I do with the "Top-8" and "20-appearance" data I have prepared a report here . Trade Ideas

It has been a while since the Trade Ideas scan showed some buying merit, but Wednesday was a vast improvement over recent days (irrespective of whether the market was up or down). The "Top-8" list came in at 10 minutes (which I would still consider bearish - but at least it didn't take hours to get 8 stocks), with an unusual large cap tech feel to the "20-appearance" list which came in at 4 hours and 50 minutes - in addition to Ciena (CIEN), Intel (INTC) and Oracle (ORCL), there was strong buying for Apple (AAPL) and Adobe (ADBE) too. Did Tuesday's selling represent the extent of the backtest for August lows? I don't think so - but this rally (for however long it may last) - is showing a little better fortitude than it did last week when indices appeared to rally without the backing of broad stock buying. If you would like to try a full version of the Trade-Ideas software, follow this link for a free 7-day trial. If you are interested in knowing wha

Just for the record keeping - an ugly day for the markets actually saw a modest improvement in the scan. The "Top-8" stocks covered 2 hours and 10 minutes (not good - but better than yesterday), with one pick: the CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust ( FXY ), breaching the "20-appearance" barrier. If you would like to try a full version of the Trade-Ideas software, follow this link for a free 7-day trial. If you are interested in knowing what I do with the "Top-8" and "20-appearance" data I have prepared a report here . Trade Ideas

Well no surprise to the see the Trade Ideas scan weak for what amounted to a low volume, down day for the markets. The "Top-8" pick list required 3 hours 45 minutes with no picks cutting through the "20-appearance" barrier - this is the worst sequence of intraday buying since I started doing this analysis. My "Have we a bottom?" piece is featured in this weeks Festival of Stocks hosted by Dividends Matter . If you would like to try a full version of the Trade-Ideas software, follow this link for a free 7-day trial. If you are interested in knowing what I do with the "Top-8" and "20-appearance" data I have prepared a report here . Trade Ideas

What proved to be a relatively quiet week, was there anything to add from the Stockcharters? Joe Reed 's Dow and Full stochastic chart is in overbought territory: With a Full stochastic buy for the S&P on the weekly chart: I'm keeping an eye on Robert New 's Treasury 10-yield chart. Down at channel support so a big test coming up: He went long the Russell on the test of support: Richard Lehman is looking for more from the upside: 8/25 -- The charts are confirming the new short term uptrends across the board now. Those who played the upward minichannels in the meanwhile were well rewarded this week and should have more to go. The upchannels have a lot of potential room on the upside and suggest another possibly big move to balance out the opening rocket launch last Friday. Long term action is more bullish now as well. So far, the long term breaks suggest a revised slope uptrend rather than a new downtrend -- BUT that's not confirmed yet. 8/23 -- The major stock indi