Market Diary – Thursday, June 2, 2016

10:15 AM: Futures Fell Off The Bed At Open Futures were drifting down before the 9:30 AM NYSE open. They tried to hold the fort for 15-minutes before giving up and plunging to 2086.75, near support by 9:50 AM. Since then, futures are trying to bounce but the prior broken support of 2091.25 is acting…

Was This A ‘Meh’ Day Or Something Else?

Market was almost unchanged on Wednesday June 1, 2016. Dow Jones Industrial Averages gained +2.47 or +0.01% and S&P 500 added +2.37 or +0.11%. Going by just the end-of-day figure it would seem that it was a lackluster day. But if you dig deeper then you would see a different picture. The picture at the morning…

NASDAQ In The Front

Major U.S. indices turned around for the year in February. They formed the high for 2016 in April and then retraced. On May 19th, the market made a one-day bullish reversal candlestick and has been on an uptick since then. So let’s take a look how the major indices are doing compared to each other. The relative strength…

Market Diary – Wednesday, June 1, 2016

1:45 PM: Beige Book Release Fed’s Beige Book will be released at 2:00 PM. It is creating some uncertainty. The futures broke above the cup-with-handle pattern at 1:00 PM but they are now back in that range just before the release time of Beige Book. Intraday support is at 2090.50 and a break below that may…