During the past month, we have seen stocks pick up momentum to the down side after an already very weak trading session in May (May - Sell in May and go away). This second wave of high volume selling in June was enough to spook the masses out of the market, shifting sentiment from bullish to bearish. But just recently, we are starting to see big money accumulate stocks down at these oversold prices, which has me thinking we just may be headed higher sooner rather than later.
During market reversals we typically see the more sensitive stocks move first, which are the small cap and tech stocks. Then, a couple days later, we see the brand name stocks (big cap, energy and banking) follow. It’s these large sectors which provide the power in trends.
Taking a look at the graph below you can see on the far right both tech and small caps are leading the market higher and as of today, the power sectors (energy and financials) started to move higher also. So if things play out as I expect, the SP500 -- which is a basket of the 500 largest companies -- to follow the small caps higher over the next 1-3 weeks.
My trading buddy David Banister over at ActiveTradingPartners.com focuses mainly on small cap stock trading, combining crowd psychology and fundamental analysis. His focus is on finding stocks ready to explode during bull market advances which may just be starting.
If we take a look at the charts to see how each of these sectors have been performing you will notice that the small caps (NYSE: IWM, Stock Forum) and tech stocks (NYSE: XLK, Stock Forum) broke out one day before the energy and financials did. This is very typical to see and it also works for playing gold. I have seen gold stocks lead the price of gold bullion up to 7 days before gold bullion started to move. It’s these little golden nuggets of info which can not only save you money but make you even more when put to work.
Mid-Week Trading Conclusion:
In short, I feel the market has been forming a base for almost 3 weeks. Just last week we saw the big sectors (financials and energy) reach their key support levels from several months back and that should trigger a sizable bounce and with any luck the start of another leg higher in the market.
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