One of the biggest beneficiaries of the Buying Panic has been biotech (which, not long ago, was being pointed to as one of the biggest drags on the market). I think its draggy ways will soon return.
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Swing Trading Watch-List: IDTI, VLO, GM, MPEL, BCEI
Nervewracking
I probably don’t have to say how discomfiting it is to be holding fast during this upsurge. The NASDAQ has added nearly 6% in just the past five trading days, and we’re getting dangerously close to violating our nice, neat series of lower highs. If we slice above the prior high, it’s not the end of the world, but it definitely muddies the water. As if it weren’t muddy enough.
Bullish Tuesday vs Key Resistance
Yesterday was a very dull trading day that almost achieved complete meaninglessness, avoided only because SPX held above the daily middle band all day, closing 12 points above the middle band. SPX is therefore consolidating above the daily middle band and the next obvious target on the daily chart is the daily upper band, now at 1897. SPX daily chart:
Uncovered California
I’ve shared my gripes about Covered California before, such as here and here. I’ve got more to add.
I’m self-employed, so I get insurance through the so-called Covered California system of health insurance. California is one of the many states that decided, in its infinite wisdom, to not hang off the federal government’s healthcare.gov site, but instead spend $100 million of its own to re-invent the wheel. (more…)
