General Market Index (GMI) table

I have started to tweet alerts that I get during the trading day. My tweets are designed to be educational and not trading recommendations. My tweets are also listed to the right of this post (@wishingwealth). I am showing you how I  identify Green line Breakouts (GLB) during the trading day. I do not buy all GLBs that come up. If I do buy a GLB, I usually sell immediately if the stock looks like it will close back below the green line. I draw a green line at the highest all-time price a stock has traded at and not surpassed for at least three months. Basically it identifies a strong stock that has rested for at least 3 months and then breaks above its green line top. A list of some GLBs appears in the table to  the right. GLBs tend to work best when the market is climbing higher. Now that the GMI is on a recent Buy signal, I am looking for GLBs to buy.

Below is a daily chart of WB, which I tweeted (and purchased) on Friday. I like the fact that it broke out on above average volume but will sell it mercilessly if it comes back below the green line. The first loss is the smallest loss…

The GMI (general market index) remains at 6 (of 6).

Friday was the 19th day of the QQQ short term down-trend, within a longer term down-trend. The Dow 30 stocks, measured by the ETF, DIA, is weaker than the QQQ. Note in this daily Guppy chart that the DIA is lower than all 12 daily moving averages. The dotted line is the weekly close of the DIA. The dotted line tends to lead the averages. The shorter term red averages are declining and if they create a BWR (blue/white/red) pattern the market will be in another swoon. Note the preceding RWB advancing pattern.

The QQQ is showing a little more strength, but it remains in a BWR down-trend. . While it closed Friday below all of the blue (longer term) averages, the QQQ has climbed above all of its red (shorter term) averages. It has done this 2 times in the recent past and each attempt has failed to climb above the blue lines. A close of the QQQ above all of the blue lines (around 106.92) would be a strong show of strength and might signal the end of the BWR pattern. Stay tuned….

Meanwhile the GMI remains at zero (of 6). I remain on the sidelines, mainly in cash…..

All six of the primary indicators counted in the GMI are negative (see GMI table at bottom). The only  positive sign I see is that the put/call ratio on Friday, a contrary indicator now indicating many option traders are bearish, suggests that we could get a quick short term bounce on Monday.  But these  modified daily Guppy charts of QQQ (Nasdaq 100 ETF) and T2108 (a measure of the % of NYSE stocks that closed above their  average price over the past 40 days) suggest that these indicators are turning down. These daily Guppy charts show that the  shorter term averages (red) are moving below the longer term averages (blue). Until these averages return to a rising RWB (red/white/blue) pattern, I believe the trend is down.

Here is the GMI table. A GMI reading of zero is for me, a sign of  significant market weakness. Note the SPY has now closed below its 10 week average, joining the QQQ. I am a chicken trader and therefore am now mainly in cash in my trading accounts with a small position in SQQQ, a leveraged ETF which is designed to rise 3X as much as the QQQ falls. My first priority is to conserve capital so that I live to trade another day…