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Redefining Overbought

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The 21-day MA on the NYSE Up Issues Ratio is the most stretched since 1991. Courtesy of Sentiment Trader.




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Tue, 08/11/2009 - 09:08 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 08/11/2009 - 09:18 | Link to Comment waterdog
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No, just a redefinition of overbought with a picture.

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 09:19 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 08/11/2009 - 09:48 | Link to Comment Will Profit
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YES!!! Overbought means that more and more smart traders/investors are doing the complete opposite of stupid corporate insiders who are selling their holdings in record amounts completely oblivious to Komrade Krugman, CNBC, Bloomberg, and the other nattering naybobs calls of "recession over!!!!" buybuybuybuybuybuybuy till ya' puke!!!!! Oh DOW 14k wherefore art though?

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 13:29 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 08/11/2009 - 15:13 | Link to Comment slashex3 (not verified)
Tue, 08/11/2009 - 12:51 | Link to Comment john bougerel
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1991 followed the 20% correction during Desert Storm in

Sept-Oct 1991. Too bad this 21 day ma wasn't lined up with the most

since just prior to Desert Storm -

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 13:10 | Link to Comment Miles Kendig
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Desert Shield deployment started in August 1990 and the Desert Storm ground war ended in February 1991. 

What is this Sep-Oct 1991 war correction you speak of?

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 16:50 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 08/11/2009 - 09:09 | Link to Comment demsco
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Shocker

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 09:10 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Tue, 08/11/2009 - 09:40 | Link to Comment Bob
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Love it when gallows humor is actually funny!

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 09:53 | Link to Comment D.O.D.
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LOL! +10

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 11:34 | Link to Comment Humble Gentleman
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Don't you mean, party like it's 1930? ;-)

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 09:12 | Link to Comment B_Movie
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profit taking still no supply to my eyes.

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 09:20 | Link to Comment simonsays
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I think we can all agree that the government lap dogs, too big to fail banks and friends, and the mainstream media are colluding together in order to keep this ship afloat, in their eyes as a matter of national security. It is important to unload all the gold off the ship before it sinks and they are buying themselves time to do so.

The question is, now that you understand that, how can you profit from it and what are you doing to get all your gold off the ship?

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 09:25 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 08/11/2009 - 09:47 | Link to Comment mcgowanmc
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Speaking of offloading:

Is Colonial insolvent?  How about

BB&T? Is the FDIC?

And will any of the above find themselves in

this position?

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge refused to approve a proposed settlement between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Bank of America Corp <BAC.N> over the payment of bonuses to Merrill Lynch & Co employees, saying he was unable to determine if it was fair to the public.

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 09:20 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Tue, 08/11/2009 - 09:27 | Link to Comment RobotTrader
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Fannie and Freddie will probably be up another 40% today.

Same with car rental companies, coffee stocks, etc.

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 09:29 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Tue, 08/11/2009 - 09:32 | Link to Comment jmf
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Moin from Germany,

the German market ( and most Europen Markets ) are down intraday ( without any specific news ) over 2 percent from there highs....

FT Germany, Handelsblatt & Welt all have stories buried in the paper why the market will get higher. DAX targets north of 6.000 are not unusual these days ( Low was 3600-3700 ).......

I´m not sure if this already qualifies for a contrary indicator, but it is close...... :-)

 

 

 

 

 

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 09:35 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Tue, 08/11/2009 - 10:02 | Link to Comment THE MOGUL
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Markets are overbought and a correction is in play:

http://etfdailynews.com/blog/?p=5326

 

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 10:04 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Tue, 08/11/2009 - 10:38 | Link to Comment B_Movie
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follow thru the second hour ? or a bounce that shows lack of demand at support? watching and eating popcorn.

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 11:21 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 08/11/2009 - 11:22 | Link to Comment B_Movie
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to my eyes last months high did not hold on this intraday move down. There was no reaction off of 99.83 ... not sure if we b-line to last months close, 98.81, before an attempt to retest last months high after trading under it.

back to my day job.

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 11:27 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Tue, 08/11/2009 - 11:36 | Link to Comment max2205
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Yep, SPX OBV at new alltime highs...

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 11:42 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 08/11/2009 - 11:57 | Link to Comment B_Movie
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lack of demand but no supply just profit taking when will the sellers show up in force ?

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 11:58 | Link to Comment Bruce Krasting
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I just priced the borrow cost for FRE. It is 24% pa with a MAX of 25k shares. That is nuts on both counts. It trades 100+mm a day and it has no float. There is a lot of this going around. There is a 'no borrow' on CIT, C was 'no borrow' for a month.....

With that kinda crap as a background it is very hard to look at the tape and wonder if sqeezes (and computers) are the only things that are making markets move.

 

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 12:22 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Tue, 08/11/2009 - 15:13 | Link to Comment slashex3 (not verified)
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Tue, 08/11/2009 - 12:29 | Link to Comment B_Movie
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I am still reading lack of demand on the hourly bars. Inability to rally.

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 13:34 | Link to Comment steve from virginia
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It's not a market, it isn't going to behave like a market.

The Fed/Treasury subscribe to the 'key man' strategy where all the systemically important players are nationalized and cannot 'fail' in the normal sense. There is nothing on the horizon that can take this so- called market 'down'; statistical reports are 'fixed', bad loans are hidded off balance sheet or unreported, debt and derivatives are subsidized. Whatever is necessary to keep up appearances is done. 

I have to extend some grudging admiration for this and the previous administrations for the scope of their ambition and attention to detail. Whatever upsets the apple cart will have to take place outside the ambit of government, or must effect the government itself, such as a large rise in interest rates leading to a run against the dollar.

What is the P/E of the S&P 500? 100? 150?

Ridiculous ...

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 13:39 | Link to Comment B_Movie
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"I have to extend some grudging admiration for this and the previous administrations for the scope of their ambition and attention to detail."

 

Look up the hierarchy to give credit ...

The Committee of 300 and the Club of Rome.

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 14:29 | Link to Comment B_Movie
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"It's not a market, it isn't going to behave like a market."

 

99.85 is the August monthly open ..lets see if we can close above that level after having gone under.

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 13:57 | Link to Comment Hephasteus
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If we can get a little more amplitutde out of this it will send out a radio signal on the AM band. Wonder what song it will play. "We can't go on together with suspcisious minds...."

 

The P/E on the S&P 500 is fine. Intel, Nvidia and many others lied enough about earnings to fix it.

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 15:12 | Link to Comment slashex3 (not verified)
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