5/6 Morningline: Stocks and Bonds

Blue-chip stocks (SPY) and Treasury long-term bonds (TLT) paused in their courses as the mini-panic over Greek debt subsided over a lack of new news and domestic concerns began to assert primacy once again.

	trend	adx	psar	pps	macd	macd trend	sto	sto trend
SPY $116.42
VIX 25.19
TLT $93.99

At 9:59 a.m. Eastern

The fear index (VIX) was trading 1.5% above Wednesday's close, a very small move for the ever-volatile volatility measure.

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Indicator Exchange-Traded Fund Symbols:
SPY - blue-chip stocks
VIX - fear index, volatility of S&P 500
TLT - Treasury long-term bonds


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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