Buy The Dip

My Trading Journal for the Stock Market Today:  SPX did what it does best following a morning sell-off, and that is, to buy the freakin’ dip. (‘BTFD’ for those looking to add another acronym to their life). Support that I marked in the chart below on yesterday’s trading plan identified this as a potential bounce area.

My Trading Journal for the Stock Market Today:  When the market has a long one-day pullback that is 6 points in total, and for once in the past 13 trading sessions, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fails to rally at all, traders have to go back to their playbook and pull out the Trump Stock Rally

My Trading Journal for the Stock Market Today:  I'm pretty sure we are at that point where, "how many days can the Dow push higher", has become irrelevant. Lets just admit it, we are in the Phantom Zone at this point. We can decline 1% today is probably less likely than us running higher for another

My Trading Journal for the Stock Market Today:  And by force, I actually mean dip buyers. They buy on the dip every single, freakin', time. It is fascinating really. Every-time there is a sell-off, the market immediately responds before the market closes the day. For the bears, they are literally being plagued with Jedi mind tricks

I am not a fan of adding long positions in this current market environment. Especially after yesterday when the bulls gave up all of their gains following what is now a dead-cat bounce.  The market looks to me to be setting up for further downside. You have the FOMC Statement next week, and that

The dip buying… what can be said that hasn’t already been said. Everyone is tired of this market. Everyone is tired of the market that won’t sustain a move in either direction. The daily bands on this market are so tight, historically tight, and price can’t move above or below it, and sustain that move. 

The Bears keep knocking at the lows of the day but the bulls won’t let them come through. Still, a fairly bearish day on the stock market, and it will be interesting to see how that translates into tomorrow. Is the selling done, or just a quick brexit-break from the ho-hum way of buying everything

Technical Outlook: Day 2 of the dead cat bounce unfolded yesterday and it was a brilliant one.  Back-to-back +30 point days on SPX is a rarity in general, but not when you are coming off the heals of a major sell-off.  Much of the Brexit losses have been erased following the two day bounce.

Technical Outlook: SPX continued its sell-off for a fifth straight day.  The market traded higher all day long and reacted positively to the FOMC Statement until the final thirty minutes of trading where it sold all of its gains, and finished lower on the day.  SPX still remains below its 50-day moving average.  Most concerning