A rise in the QQQQ on Thursday and Friday will likely turn my trend indicator up. Wednesday was the 18th day of the short term down-trend. However, there were 167 new highs in my universe of 4,000 stocks on Wednesday, the most since January 21. And 53% of the Nasdaq 100 stocks closed above their 30 day averages. With the indexes up against their key moving averages, it remains to be seen whether they will break through this week. With many growth stocks getting stronger, I suspect this market is going higher. The key is to not jump the gun, however, but to wait for confirmation.
Federal Reserve raising short term interest rates? Stocks ready to rally?
While the short term down-trend is still in place, a lot of stocks I watch are gaining strength. And surprisingly, short term rates are starting to rise, perhaps in anticipation of a recovery in the economy. First, note that the GMI-R, which is more sensitive to short term changes, has risen from 1 to 5 (of 10), while the GMI is now back to 2. As the table below shows,
IBD 100 TOP TEN STOCKS GET TROUNCED IN MARKET DECLINE!
Last October, I wrote a post showing that in the market’s rise, 70% of the top 10 stocks in the IBD 100 list outperformed comparable stock indexes. Well, I repeated the analysis for the top ten stocks in the IBD 100 list published on 01/11/2010. I compared the closing price of each stock on the Friday before Monday’s list was published to the closing price yesterday, on 02/09/2010. I am a big fan in buying IBD 100 stocks in a market up-trend, but was still very surprised by these dramatic results.