Textbook

Update after original post – this could help the market tomorrow on possible drop in dollar. Good evening, team Bulls. Yup, textbook technical reversal today. Even with the good earnings reports, the market faded all afternoon on continued worries about the debt ceiling and other issues I’ll get to below. Before I dive into my …

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Amazing Day

I finally got what I was looking for today – Obama came out and hinted that there has been progress in the debt ceiling talks. If you’ve been watching my vids over the last few days, you know that a debt ceiling resolution would be the ultimate catalyst to boost the market up and send …

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Energy Stock Watch

Tomorrow, we’ll kick off the week with a pre-market earnings report from Halliburton (HAL). From a swing standpoint, the daily chart is extremely attractive and a good report could propel HAL out of its bull flag just above horizontal support.  Energy stocks have been relatively strong lately and I think we’ll see impressive earnings from HAL and others considering oil prices were over $100 during a good span of Q2. NOTE:  make sure you know when these companies report so you’re not over exposed into their announcements.

Other energy stocks technically favorable:

BHI – nice consolidation pattern looking to setup for a move out to the upside.

HLX – trading range is tightening up with strong horizontal resistance just above.  Looks good for possible break on backs of strong HAL earnings.

 

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Another Messy Day, But…

In last night’s blog post, I mentioned concern that the market is currently topped out until the debt ceiling issue is resolved.  I still believe this is the case and stocks will spend the next week, or two, hitting their heads on a market ceiling even with solid earnings trying to push them to new …

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