The Market Is Resilient

The US markets are resilient. I’ve been watching the intraday action for over the past few months and one thing I’ve seen this year that I did not see last year is resiliency. The market has been showing relative strength, not only compared to last year, but also compared to other world Stock Markets. As of August 12 Sunday Night, it is the 11th best performing market when compared to a year ago.

Now I can have tons of arguments about why the market is this strong (The $FED, decent economic data as of late, etc), but only one thing will pay me at the end of the day, and that is price action. One thing I have learned since I picked up trading was to not short relatively strong stocks and not to get long relatively weak stocks. And right now, the S&P 500 ($SPX) is acting like a relatively strong “stock”.

I expect some consolidation and/or small movement over the next few weeks of late summer trading, before setting up for a move higher after Mid-September.

Of course things can change dramatically between now and then, but that’s why I’m a trader, I get paid to adapt while playing the best risk/reward scenarios.

$SPY – SPDR S&P 500 ETF


 

Tags: $SPY $SPX $DJIA 

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