Gartman said: "The news is

    From Gartman

    Posted by dallahoo on 17th of Sep 2008 at 11:16 am

    Gartman said: "The news is horrid, but the trading activity is positive indeed... and a market that won't go down on bad news is not a bear market"

    But XLF is down 8% today, which market is he referring to as not going down? I guess I am missing something here Undecided

    yes agree, but this chart

    Posted by matt on 17th of Sep 2008 at 11:26 am

    yes agree, but this chart bothered me, it was still way too high for a bottom yesterday, it usually bottoms around 20% or below

    % of Stocks In S&P 500 Above their 50 day MA

    Matt do you know where

    Posted by rreynolds on 17th of Sep 2008 at 02:59 pm

    Matt do you know where one can get a list of the stocks 50 day MA included in this graph. With over 1200 stocks I believe making 52 weeks lows yesterday this graph does not pass the smell test to me.

    Yep, you are right, my

    Posted by dallahoo on 17th of Sep 2008 at 11:43 am

    Yep, you are right, my good Sir. this is the 4th high distribution day in a week or so (I have to check) but the point is after back to back distrib. days like this we may get a seller exhaustion and some sort of a bounce. It also is in full accord with a 5th wave behavior, especially if we get some +'ve divergence on the lows. It's like a spring, you can only press it so much, it snaps back at some point.

    A shorter's dream, nothing less!

    Does this chart up date

    Posted by hornsant on 17th of Sep 2008 at 11:37 am

    Does this chart up date by the end of the day ?. If so does anybody know how to corelate the % drop in the SP500 to a drop in the %50. could we be hovering the 20% at this point ? 

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