There are 18 days before the July options expire, 53 the August and 81 the September.
On the jump, market stats, econ reports, trading calendar and a good book...
Stats
Blue chip stocks (SPY) closed the latest regular session down 0.3% from the prior close. During the day SPY traversed 1.1% high to low in a net move down of 0.5%. Friday's extremes: Open $108.03, high $108.32, low $107.14, close $107.53. SPY traded below the DeMark pivots and closed within them. The next DeMark pivots are $106.75-$107.93. In total, 2.7 billion shares were traded on the three major U.S. stock exchanges, down 21.4% from the prior trading day. Can anyone say, "Holiday weekend ahead?" Markets are closed next Monday for Independence Day. SPY at a glance:
Econ reports: The home price index will be released at 9 a.m. Eastern, consumer confidence at 10 a.m. What's interesting about the home price index is that it breaks results down for 20 metro areas. In real estate, as in politics and love, everything is local. So the HPI provides a nice counterpoint (dare I say corrective) to the national trend numbers, which mask a lot of local variation. | Everything you need to know about the economic indicators that drive the markets. From the staff of The Economist. |
Trading Calendar:
By my rules, at this point in the cycle I can trade September single calls or puts, and shares.
Good trading!
OK. The credit bubble burst. Housing, burst. Shockwaves reverberated. Markets collapsed. What lies ahead as we remerge from the wreckage.
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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