Here’s today’s swing-trading watch-list:
Long Blackstone Group (BX)
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I was talking yesterday morning about the likelihood that SPX would retest broken resistance as support and it took a while, but that was tested at the close yesterday. We could see SPX go a bit lower this morning but what we saw yesterday may well be all. My bull/bear line is at 2068/9 this morning, with the SPX daily middle band now at 2073.5, the 50 hour MA now at 2072.5, and the 5 DMA at 2070. SPX 5DMA chart:
Here is one way to put a happy spin on things. Wall Street is increasingly aware of the deceleration in corporate profits and a potential for the upcoming earnings season to be a rough one. This CNBC article dutifully notes these things, but the highlight is one sun shiny optimist who apparently thinks it may already be baked in.
“Obviously there’s a ton of concern… but my view is that expectations have come down rapidly, and there’s a clear understanding that we’re looking at a real weak environment right now from an earnings perspective,” said David Seaburg, head of equity sales trading with Cowen & Co.
“I think there could be an outside surprise that could carry this market higher, especially given that you have every central bank working to inflate asset prices.”