Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Stocks in bear mode

Friday's broad market created a ton of bear signals. Many of them got lost because I exclude from analysis stocks are are within 30 days of an earnings announcement.

There are 175 high-volume large-capitalization stocks in my analytical universe that have sufficient liquidity for a bear play. A bear position can be build from either options or short shares, and both tactics require liquid symbols, which excludes most of the market.

The stocks have average daily volume of 3 million shares or more and market caplitalization of $10 billion or greater. 

Out of those 175 symbols, 76 are presently in confirmed bear mode according to my rules. That means that each has broken below its 20-day price channel and continued to trade below the breakout level on the next day.

As of the Jan. 27 close, the 76 symbols in bear mode are:

ABBV
ABEV
ABT
ADM
AIG
AMAT
AMX
BBBY
BBD
BIDU
BK
BMY
BRK/B
BSBR
C
CBS
COF
COP
CSX
CTL
CVS
CVX
DD
DG
DIS
FCX
FOX
FOXA
GE
GGB
GGP
GM
HAL
HD
HIG
HST
INTC
JNJ
JPM
KEY
KO
KR
LVS
LYB
MA
MCD
MDLZ
MET
MRO
MS
MT
NBG
NKE
NOK
OXY
PBR
PBR/A
PFE
PGR
PM
POT
RIG
S
SAN
SLM
SYY
TGT
TJX
TWX
UNH
UPS
WFM
WMT
XOM
XRX
YHOO

References

My shorter-term trading rules can be read here. And the classic Turtle Trading rules on which my rules are based can be read here.


Disclaimer
Tim Bovee, Private Trader tracks the analysis and trades of a private trader for his own accounts. Nothing in this blog constitutes a recommendation to buy or sell stocks, options or any other financial instrument. The only purpose of this blog is to provide education and entertainment.
No trader is ever 100 percent successful in his or her trades. Trading in the stock and option markets is risky and uncertain. Each trader must make trading decision decisions for his or her own account, and take responsibility for the consequences.

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