2/26 Watchlist

Blue chip stocks (SPY) are mainly comatose at the top of Thursday's trading range. Long-term Treasury bonds (TLT) are trading at upside resistance set in late January and early February.

All in all, it's shaping up to be calm ending to a somewhat stormy week. But how could a week during which Ben Bernanke testified three times on Capitol Hill be anything but stormy?

The watchlist:

Macd bull signal: AOD, analysis. No price move yet. BSX, analysis.No price move yet. F, analysis. Top of yesterday's range, no breakout. WFC, analysis. Trading within yesterday's range. Macd bear signal: XHB, analysis. Rose 3.2% today low to high. (I have a bear position on this issue, and today's high is 0.7% below my stop/loss point.) Money-flow index overbought: CSCO, analysis. Top of yesterday's range. SBUX, analysis. Top of yesterday's range. SMH, analyses 1, 2. Opened above yesterday's range and then retraced. TXN, analyses 1, 2. Within yesterday's range. About 4% above support. XRT, analysis. Retraced a bit from today's high and open to now is trading within a 1-cent range.

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Money-flow index oversold:

• UNG, analysis. Trading within yesterday's range.

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