Doug Sooley 
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS Stocks traded a volatile week amidst continuing bank crisis talk coupled with Fed worries about overly aggressive rate hikes leading to the liquidity crunch. The news has created a flight to quality with some large rallies in both the bond and gold markets last week. The DJIA settled down -0.14% in the middle … Read more
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS The DJIA staged a brutal outside week down and closed on the bottom of the weeks range, down -4.44%. Prices decidedly cleared the December lows and met a longer-term wave count objective at 32192/32170…settling below that level on the daily/weekly. The hourly chart is extremely oversold with the close on Friday and the … Read more
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS The DJIA staged an upside reversal week and settled in the top of the weekly range, up +1.75% on the week. The market tested the last major wave lows on the daily, set back in December, before reversing with a strong performance to finish out the week on Friday. The hourly has reached … Read more
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS The DJIA opened lower, in a shortened trading week, and never looked back…with prices plunging -2.98% and ending on the bottom of the week’s range at the lowest weekly close since the end of October 2022. On the daily chart, the close is the lowest since December 20, 2022. Overall, the market is … Read more
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS The DJIA traded a narrow, inside week and settled slightly lower…closing down -0.17% toward the middle of the week’s range. The action does little to the charts as the Dow has basically been stuck in a trading range since the wide range of December 22, 2022. Sentiment remains neutral with a slight bias … Read more
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS The DJIA traded a whipsaw week and closed down -0.15% as the blue chips once again lagged the S&P, Nasdaq and Russell…which closed up +1.62, +3.31 and +3.88 respectively. Sentiment remains slightly neutral while momentum indicators have turned toward ‘greed’ with the 52-week high/low reaching an extremely frothy +2.90 on last Friday’s close. … Read more
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS The DJIA traded an inside week and settled in the upper end of the weekly range, closing out the week with an advance of +1.8%. The Dow continued to lag the S&P, Nasdaq and Russell which had stronger intraweek performances. Sentiment is leaning toward greed again and the 52-week new highs/lows closed at … Read more
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS The DJIA traded lower all week and ended down 2.7% in the lower half of the weekly range. Last week was a mix of layoff announcements and political maneuvering over the US debt limit. The tech and secondary markets performed much better than the blue chips, with the Nasdaq actually eking out modest … Read more
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS The DJIA spent most of last week on the upside and settled with a 1.99% increase on the week as prices inch back toward the late 2022 swing highs. The “Dow” continues to outperform the S&P500 and the tech-centered Nasdaq Composite. The 52-week H/L line remains frothy, closing the week at -0.16. Sentiment … Read more
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS The DJIA saw a whipsaw trade last week, ending with a surge on Friday that carried the market to a four-week high and an upside breakout of the flagging pattern that had developed to the side of the recent selloff. The action took a slight edge off the fear and greed indices while … Read more