Market Outlook entering the Week of July 26th = Long-term uptrend under pressure
MOVING AVERAGES
- Short-term (20 DMA): Sell Signal
4 of the 5 major stock market averages fell below their 20-day moving averages.
- Intermediate (50 DMA): Sell Signal
4 of the 5 major stock market averages fell below their 50-day moving averages.
- Long-term (200 DMA): Mixed
3 of the 5 major stock market averages closed above their 200-day moving averages.
COMMENTARY
Just when it looks safe to get back into stocks, US equities get slammed with 4 straight days of selling. That’s not the type of action needed to support an uptrend.
The high-volume indicates that market makers were sellers last week, adding a negative view to the outlook.
Not surprisingly, intermediate support/resistance levels from Objective Elliott Wave analysis remain unchanged from last week, which has been the case for most of 2015:
- Resistance: 2,131/ 2,198
- Support: 2,070 / 2,085
The S&P500 was unable to get above the 2131 resistance level, which I mentioned last week as the only real hurdle the S&P500 had to clear prior to a 2198 price level.
Tony C. raised the specter of the long-awaiting correction in his weekend market commentary. As much as I am looking forward to that event (because I’m sitting on so much cash), I’ll believe it when I see it.
That said, last week marked the first time in a while that I’ve had to switch from pruning stocks with weak technical/fundamental performance to selling in order to limit losses. As always, let your stocks do the talking, and follow their lead.
2015-07-26 – US Stock Market Averages
Sources:
For the detailed Elliott Wave Analysis, go to the ELLIOTT WAVE lives on by Tony Caldaro. For price/volume data, head to stockcharts.com.
Moving Average Signals:
- Uptrend=Market indexes remained above their moving average during the trading week
- Downtrend=Market indexes remained below their moving average during the trading week
- Buy signal=Market indexes fell below their moving averages during the trading week
- Sell signal=Market indexes rose above their moving averages during the trading week
