Index Glance

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Low-volume, daily-lifetime-highs summer trading continues. Let’s take a quick look at a few key items.

The Dow Jones Composite is hugging its trendline and still beneath its price gap. This is a big fat “meh” – – basically there hasn’t been a net change in weeks.

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The gold bugs might be ready to rally again. It got smacked hard, but notice how the trendline (which is now support) was successfully tested.

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One of the few indexes which looks plausibly at-risk is the semiconductor group, although broadly speaking it is still widely range-bound.

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And the only straight-up, I-am-happy-to-be-short sector is oil (sorry, TNRev!) which has repeatedly threatened and challenged its own trendline but is still safely beneath it. I would suggest XLE if you want to play this one.

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