Weekly Stock Market Commentary: Accumulation Week
[Image upload not working in Blogger so limited in what I can post] The Nasdaq closed the week stalled at resistance but did so with week decent buying. A push above 2,010 will mark a confirmed break of declining resistance from 2007-09 but that doesn't guarantee a straight shoot higher; it will instead shift the trend to either a slower descent or sideways trading pattern that will help drive the next cyclical bull market. There was firmer buying in the S&P. The push over 1,000 cleared one psychological hurdle leaving a relative void in volume trading as far as 1,200. The bearish divergence in the MACD histogram hasn't gone away so it's not all roses but a flight to safety would help the S&P more so than other indices. Market Breadth continued its recovery. The Nasdaq Bullish Percent reached a new high which has helped alleviate the negative divergences at work in the Percentage of Stocks above the 50-day MA and Summation Indices. Indeed, the current negative diver