Sunday, April 3, 2011

In Need of a Pullback... Who Said That???

I've been going through my charts this afternoon and it looks to me like we need a rest here OR a pullback. There are breakouts and gaps up and good volume. Not just on Friday... we all LOVED the action on Friday. But some of the price action took place 3 or 4 days before the dreaded jobs report. 

I pulled up the weekly charts and found that the prices had returned to their multi-year highs in many cases. There's still hope, though. There seems to be plenty of upside if you go out to the monthly time frame. I don't know if we can take out the highs here without a rest and consolidation. I'm not going to run in and chase anything. You can never catch a runaway train so you may as well wait until it comes back into the station.

Here, then are some of the possibilities I see for the week ahead. A lot of the traders are still in the oil patch. Other favorite sectors: real estate operations and medical. FYI


$EAT Above 25 on volume. MACD/RSI rising. Next resistance at 28 then 32.



$LAVA B/O on good volume. MACD/RSI confirm. Resistance at 7.50; 9.50 then 12. Weekly says more up. Long right here or break at 6.80. Sector: Computer software.


Other names in this sector: $TIBX $ASIA


$ERTS On watch for Monday. Long over 20.25. Need volume and confirm from MACD/RSI. Over 24, then 30 then 43.



$KRC Nice pop on volume. Closed right at resistance. Long over 39.50. Nothing in the way until 48 on the weekly. Volume, MACD/RSI and MA Crossover all look good.



$PRXL Price up against long term resistance. Long over 25. Next stop 29.



$MDR Stepping higher. Over 26 with volume goes to 33. MACD/RSI curling up.



$MIC Good volume move into resistance. Over 25 with volume; MACD/RSI confirm. Next stop on weekly at 30.



$TEX Long over 38 with volume. MACD/RSI need to confirm. Some resistance at 43 than 50.



$YSI Prices stepping higher. Low volume on Friday. B/O over 10.75 goes to 13.50. Need MACD/RSI to curl up. This is in the same sector as $KRC: REIT's.



$WNR Another oil play. This has been on Twitter screens before. Nice price action into long-term resistance/support. Over 18.50 next stop 24. Nothing after that until 49.50.


$FTO $DK $EROC also in this sector.



That's about all for this weekend. Let's not forget that we get into some serious earnings reporting in the next couple of weeks. Trade carefully. Stay smart and trade well.

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