Buy The Dip

Futures are surprisingly making a move in the premarket Whether it holds will be a whole other question. Gap highers tend to be shakey business of late. Even Friday, where the market was solid all day long, chose to sell off in the final 10 minutes of trading and wipe out about 80% of the

Stock market is on shaky ground That doesn't mean the market is simply going straight down from here - if it were only that easy. That's because, despite the sudden bearishness that has been prevalent throughout this week, there is still that pesky dip buying mentality of the stock market that won't let the 8

Nasdaq selling off again, SPX flat The technology purge looks to resume again this morning, while most of the overnight gains have been lost by the large caps. This market is becoming a bit less predictable in the latter half of this month. yesterday's bounce looked reminiscent of the bounce following the May 17th sell-off,

I barely remember the sell-off that ‘alledgedly’ happened yesterday.  People say that there was one, but I can’t take their word for certain. The buy-the-dip crowd  would never allow such a thing.  Don’t believe me? Take a look at the charts below – nothing ever happened yesterday.  S&P 500 (SPY) Dip Buy Nasdaq (QQQ) Dip Buy

Buy Machines Continue to Bounce following One Day Sell-offs If the premarket is any sign of what looms for the market today, it will be yet another hard bounce following a one-day sell-off. 

No longer smart money, it is the fast money that is dip buying. It is impossible to get a sell-off to last more than just one day. Though today might be a bit different as far as that is concerned.

My watch list to follow this week So far the bulls are actually managing to put together a bounce this week and my watch list of long setups are looking pretty nice. Granted, it is only Monday, and the volume is likely to only be about half of what has been seen on average. So

Bearish stocks used to mean something Once again, the bears are giving up all of the morning’s progress at rolling over the market and instead left running for the hills for themselves. If you ever thought buying the dip was a joke, it isn’t. It is an absolute tendency that this market has exhibited

Trading the 3:30 Ramp Okay so the headline might be a bit of an exaggeration but the past two trading days, when 3:30pm eastern typically triggers an end of day run, the exact opposite has happened where stocks start to slide out of absolutely nowhere. Perhaps it is just a temporary thing, but one can’t

My Trading Journal for the DJIA Today:  Nasdaq still doesn't look so bad, Russell index does look pretty rough, the S&P 500 is giving up all of Wednesday's market rally, but the DJIA today managed to hold that 10-day moving average with a three day pullback that was quite shallow in nature. If it holds tomorrow,