Monday, July 19, 2010

7/20 Almanac

On Tuesday, July 20: Housing starts

There are 32 days before the August options expire, 60 the September and 88 the October.

On the jump, market stats, econ reports, trading calendar and a good book...
Stats

Blue chip stocks (SPY) closed the latest regular session up 0.6% from the prior close. During the day SPY traversed 1.3% low to highin a net move up of 0.2%.

Friday's extremes: Open $107.55, high $107.63, low $106.22, close $107.29.

SPY traded within the DeMark pivots. The next DeMark pivots are $106.76-$108.17.

In total, 2.7 billion shares were traded on the three major U.S. stock exchanges, 27% fewer than on the prior trading day.


Econ reports:

The housing starts report is out at 8:30 a.m. Eastern. It is treated as a fairly broad indicator. If builders are starting to build more, then they clearly have confidence that there's enough consumer confidence out there to assure a market.

Small fry: A ICSC-Goldman report on major retail chain sales at 7:45 a.m., and the rival Redbook measure of retail sales at 8:55 a.m. They're both weeklies, and rarely move the markets.


Trading Calendar:

By my rules, at this point in the cycle I can trade August calendar, vertical, diagonal and butterfly spreads, iron condors and covered calls. Also, September straddles and single calls or puts. Shares, of course, are good anytime.


Good trading!





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Abbreviations:

  • psar - Parabolic Stop and Reverse
  • adx - Average Directional Index
  • pps - Person's Proprietary Signal
  • ma20 - 20-day moving average
  • macd - Moving Average Convergence-Divergence
  • sto - Fast Stochastic


About the glance: The colors indicate the state of each signal.

  • trend: Determined by the 5-day moving average, green for up, red for down, yellow for sideways
  • adx: orange for above 30-up, blue for 20-down, purple for in the middle. Red is most prone to whipsaws
  • psar, pps, macd: green for bull mode, red for bear
  • sto: green for overbought, red for oversold, yellow for the neutral zone.

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