March 19, 2024

S&P Futures play MA pinball

Index & Sector performance 12/16/13 The Market: The made strong gains today after what looked like a horrible start to the week.  In overnight trading Sunday the S&P 500 dropped t0 $1754 (March 2014 emini contract) tagging the 50 day SMA and then built a rally off that support.  Surprisingly by the morning the futures had not only regained everything that was lost from Sunday evening’s open but also but in some gains.  Those who do not look at the futures may have never even known of the rough start.  The futures then rallied pre-market to the 20 day SMA…

Daily Wrap

DJIA -19.12 (-0.12%) to 15,335.28; S&P 500 -1.18 (-0.07%) to 1,666.29; NASDAQ -7.99 (-0.26%) to 3,020.97 Today the market somewhat consolidated after its ramp into options expiration last Friday.  Initially it looked as though it could be another strong move higher as early trading was choppy but then we spiked higher into the noon EST time.  That spike was eventually lost and we ultimately close near flat on the day.  It was interesting to see the Russell 2000 be the strongest index and only one to close higher.  Small caps leading might bode well for ultimately higher prices.  Tomorrow is Tuesday and interestingly…