Week of 5/1
Recap : Bearish theme continues in the global markets. Bulls were hoping that good tech earnings would save the market, however earnings and outlook were mixed with NFLX, AMZN, GooG disappointing while FB, APPL, MSFT and TSLA managed to show good numbers. Market is showing characteristics of a bear market and every bounce on any positive news seems like a selling opportunity. Bulls have lot of defending to do and it seems all big buyers are on a hiatus. For the week SPX: - 3.27% COMPX: - 3.93% DOW: -2.47% IWM: -4.01% VIX: +18% Our proprietary breadth indicators show that two stocks are down for every stock that's up. Oscillator at negative 111 shows trend is to down side and this can go to an extreme of -270. Also the percent of stocks above 40 and 200dma is around 27 and 28 which is not an extreme level yet. At extremes these can go to 4% and 5% respectively indicating 96 to 97% of stocks are below those moving averages. Those extremes usually mark a temporary bottom. In addition...