Written by Gary
Markets closed early in accordance to Holiday schedules. During the last several minuted the averages suffered a -0.4% drop that recovered 0.2% at the close. Holiday market traffic is hard to judge what is the ‘real flavor' of the investors thinking. But it was obvious that some investors decided to jump ship at least for the duration of the Xmas holidays.
By 1 pm the averages closed below the session highs to mixed or flat status.
We will have to wait until Friday to see if the Santa Claus rally is going to continue. Everyone have a safe and prosperous Holiday.
Our medium term indicators are leaning towards sell portfolio of non-performers at the close and the session market direction meter is 45 % Bullish climbing from 40% at the opening. We remain mostly conservatively bullish, neutral in other words. Right now now I am getting very concerned any downtrend could get very aggressive in the short-term and any volatility may also promote sudden reversals. The SP500 MACD has turned up, but remains above zero at +9.92. I would advise caution in taking any position during this uncertain period and I hope you have returned your ‘dogs' to the pound.
Having some cash on hand now is not a bad strategy as market changes are happening everyday. As of now, I do not see any leading indicators that are warnings of a ‘long-term' reversal in the near-term. There may be one later in 2015, but any market fluctuations we see now are more of a internal market rectification than a bear market.
Investing.com members' sentiments are 64 % Bearish.
Investors Intelligence sets the breath at 53.6 % bullish with the status at BearConfirmed. (Chart Here ) I expect a market reversal at or before ~25.0 should the markets start to descend.
StockChart.com Overbought / Oversold Index ($NYMO) is at +30.78. (Chart Here)But anything below -30 / -40 is a concern of going deeper. Oversold conditions on the NYSE McClellan Oscillator usually bounce back at anything over -50 and reverse after reaching +40 oversold.
