– James F. Taulman, former Editor-in-Chief of the first independently licensed website to offer stock reports and services based on the CAN SLIM® investment system.
8:45 AM – MORNING MARKET UPDATE & WATCH LIST
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his morning, stock futures are off considerably with the Dow’s down -100.
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Markets in Europe opened mixed, but in Asia were markedly lower. The Hang Seng Index dropped more than -2.6% on Monday, its worst single-day percentage decline since the beginning of August.
Last week, stocks remained buoyed by the thick of third-quarter earnings season, U.S./China trade talk, and some positive economic reports.
On Monday, the Dow Jones followed the Nadsaq and S&P 500 to a new record close.
Then on Thursday, the bullish action continued with a gap up which set the stage for the Dow and S&P 500 to post another record close, while the Nasdaq made its second-highest close in history.
The major averages remained, at the least, resilient on Friday even as Trump said that he had not yet agreed to the backing of off tariffs with China. Earlier in the week, optimism on the issue based on reports from China helped to power the week’s rally.
The Dow ended with a weekly advance of +334 points or +1.2%, its third straight week of gains.
The blue chips did close off of Thursday’s all-time high, yet still with a new closing high on Friday of 27,681.
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As we have experienced, many of our smaller cap, growth stocks, along with the Russell 2000, and have not fared as well as larger, value names and the major averages during the latest rally.
That may be coming to an end as market technicians point out that a “bullish cross” is set to form in the Russell 2000 index as soon as Monday. They say this may signal a firmer breakout is on the horizon, which would be more likely t0 turn into a longer-term uptrend.
MW: A ‘golden cross’ is forming in a key stock-market index of small-caps
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BREAKOUT UPDATE:
Here are the last 5 BreakOut Alerts.
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WATCHLIST UPDATE:
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