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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Dow, S&P500, and Nasdaq expected to open lower

Once again, ECB fine tuning operation on Tuesday caused higher open and mini rally followed by sell off after Dow hit 52 week high. Dow, S&P500 and Nasdaq are back to the top of the window range, where it had been trading all August. In Dow jones, 13106-13203 acted as support level while in S&P500 1390 - 1410 acted as support level. If all the index drop by 0.5% then the support level is broken. For bullish sentiment, Dow needs to break 13,244 and S&P500 needs to break 1416, where as for bearish sentiment to continue, Dow needs to break 13,154 and S&P500 needs to break 1410.
dow jones window range
Dow Jones back into window range of 13,100 - 13,200 range.
Based on the chart, tomorrow stock market is expected to open lower.

This is how Dow closed in the bearish zone. Watch out the movement in GLD, DUST, NUGT on Fed fomc minute.
dow jones in bearish zone
Dow jones in bearish zone
Trading Ideas for August 22nd for Day trader only: Follow the trend. Buy on the way up and Sell on the way down.


AAPL: Sell @ 656 and buy @ 658.
UVXY: Sell @ 5.20 and buy @ 5.33
TVIX: Sell @ 2.57 and buy @ 2.64
VXX: Sell @ 11.32 and buy @11.52
GOOG: Sell @ 668 and buy @ 670.
JPM: Sell @ 38.04 and buy @ 38.26
DUST: Sell @ 38.94 and buy @ 39.46
GLD: Sell @ 158.83 and buy @ 159.12
AGQ: Sell @42.74 and buy @ 42.99
NUGT: Sell @ 11.74 and buy @11.85

After hours 
Percentage Gainers
IssueSymbolVolumeLastChg% ChgHighLow
Key TronicKTCC59,153$9.321.3216.50$9.58$8.00
Alexza PharmaceuticalsALXA17,5124.440.41 10.174.454.00
Williams-SonomaWSM916,69341.703.47 9.0842.1537.92
La-Z-BoyLZB18,11214.400.90 6.6714.8713.46
ExpressEXPR6,11117.500.60 3.5517.6516.90
Percentage Decliners
IssueSymbolVolumeLastChg% ChgHighLow
Ultra Clean HoldingsUCTT20,124$5.56-1.14-17.01 $6.72$5.56
DellDELL4,309,65311.78-0.56-4.54 12.7511.60
Career EducationCECO9,8563.60-0.14-3.74 3.763.44
Amkor TechnologyAMKR15,2295.00-0.14-2.72 5.215.00
IntuitINTU100,66857.37-1.58-2.68 59.9856.51

Economic Calendar
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