ECONOMIC CALENDAR:
Tuesday Aug17, 8:30AM ET – Housing Starts
Tuesday Aug17, 8:30AM ET – PPI (Producer Price Index)
Tuesday Aug17, 9:15AM ET – Industrial Production
EARNINGS:
Monday: Agilent Technologies (A), SYSCO (SYY)
Tuesday: Home Depot (HD), Silicon Graphics (SGI), Wal-Mart (WMT)
Wednesday: Applied Materials (AMAT), Deere (DE), Target (TGT)
Thursday: Dell (DELL), Dollar Tree Stores (DLTR), Foot Locker (FL), Gamestop (GME), GAP (GPS), Hewlett-Packard (HP), Intuit (INTU), Marvell (MRVL), Ross (ROST), Salesforce.com (CRM), Sears (SHLD), Staples (SPLS)
Friday: AnnTaylor (ANN)




conshmillo 4:03 am on August 16, 2010 539 days ago Reply
This week is busy with big retailers earnings (Home Depot, Wall-Mart, Target, Sears). Plus we have also Dell and HP reporting on Thursday. Economic reports are quite light. Most important ones being on Tuesday. So much of the direction will be most probably determined on Thursday by earnings. Stochastic on dailies is getting oversold so we could see some short term buying action. At the same time we are in bearish territory due to the bearish crossover on MACD last week. This is same for both DJIA and AAPL. Because we are at the beginning of larger downtrend I do not expect neither DJIA nor AAPL to retrace upwards more that 50%. I expect DJIA bounce back somewhere close to 10,500 levels and AAPL to bounce back somewhere to 257 levels. Once (and if) we get this little bounce back this week, I expect continuation of downtrend. Shanghai is at the moment strongly up and London is slightly higher. Japan, which I do not pay much attention to got hit today due to the poor GDP numbers there. Still both Shanghai and London are at the bearish cross on daily MACD (and bullish cross on slow stochastic, same like DJIA and AAPL). So I expect them to do the same. Little bounce up this week and then continuation of downtrend when stochastic turns back negative again in few days.
conshmillo 5:06 pm on August 20, 2010 534 days ago Reply
Week ended pretty much as I expected. We had a little bounce on Tuesday and downtrend continued toward the end of the week. DJIA managed to hit high of 10,501.67 on Tuesday and AAPL managed to hit high of 254.67 on Wednesday. Neither one of them retraced more than 50% upwards. Disturbingly DJIA broke today it’s 10193.26 support. AAPL got just pinned to 10 rounder as it did for past 2 months (since the introduction of weekly options). This week it was 10 rounder of 250.
Past 7 Friday’s closing prices:
8/20 – 249.64
8/13 – 249.10
8/06 – 260.09
7/30 – 257.25
7/23 – 259.94
7/16 – 249.90
7/09 – 259.62
With exception of July 30, all within 1 dollar of 10 rounder.