Markets Sliced By 1000 Cuts
The stock market has been dropping in a slow, agonizing fashion for the last 2 weeks although today it picked up a little speed. The SPY stopped it’s slide today right at it’s 200 day EMA of 1307. If the market doesn’t find some support at this level, the next level of support is 1260 which would fulfill the head and shoulders break down.
With the Facebook IPO coming up tomorrow, if some real bad news doesn’t hit the wire we will probably get a bounce off current levels. With on-going problems in Europe still unresolved and the doo at JP Morgan still hitting the fan, any bounce should be sold into as it will in all likehood be a dead cat bounce.
Yesterday GLD came within .33 of the December, 2011 low of 148.27 and today it rallied off a double bottom. The question is whether this is the start of a new leg up or if GLD will continue it’s march downward. There’s a good chance GLD will make a run to the top of it’s downtrend channel which right now sits at 158. We won’t know what the prognosis will be until it gets there as the downtrend must be broken before we can assume another leg up has started.
Conclusion: The S&P 500 looks like it may have hit a temporary level of support. The initial target of this correction is 1260 so even if we get a bounce from here the market will probably be headed lower.
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