5/24 Morningline

Narrow trading with the exception of the euro, which is falling sharply against the U.S. dollar, and the VIX, down sharply, suggesting the recent europanic has indeed been excised, or at least gone into remission.

	trend	adx	psar	pps	macd	macd trend	sto	sto trend
SPY $108.80
VIX 37.33
TLT $98.56

At 10:58 a.m. Eastern

Note that on JNK, the psar/pps divergence continues.

	trend	adx	psar	pps	macd	macd trend	sto	sto trend
JNK $37.78
GLD $116.23
USO $32.25
EEM $37.34
EUR/USD $1.2373
USD/JPY ¥90.47

Indicator Exchange-Traded Fund Symbols:
EEM - emerging markets
EUR/USD - euro/dollar currency pair
GLD - gold
JNK - high-yield corporate bonds
SPY - blue-chip stocks
TLT - Treasury long-term bonds
USD/JPY - dollar/yen currency pair
USO - crude oil
VIX - fear index


At 11:05 a.m. Eastern

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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
mfi - Money Flow Index
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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