Friday was horrible for those hoping that the market was close to a bottom. Excluding 40-minute "flash crash" of two weeks ago, the market had been able to stay above the lower boundary trendline of the "ascending broadening wedge" I described on May 27. It did until this past Friday, that is, when the market hit a new low for the year and the S&P wound up being down 4.5% for the year to date. Having broken below that supporting trendline, I believe the market is marching down towards the target identified in that May 27 post of 925-950 (click on images to enlarge) .
It doesn't seem like a propitious time to be cull a watchlist of 47 stocks that might be candidates to buy but, as I wrote the other day, once the market decides its correction has run its course there will be many more from which to choose. For example, QSFT (Quest Software):
Against the market tide, QSFT was able to close higher on Friday and, in the process, continue widening the gap above key resistance trendlines and 5-year new high territory. According to one service:
"QSFT options saw interesting call activity today. A total of 422 put and 2,908 call contracts were traded raising a low Put/Call volume alert. Today's traded Put/Call ratio is 0.15. There were 6.89 calls traded for each put contract.
The skewed options ratio suggests that traders are rebalancing their portfolios in anticipation of a price shift. Today's unusual volume activity directly reflects investor outlook and confirms that a stock move is imminent."
Will QSFT or any of the others included in that watchlist of 47 names (the list was a "first pass" so I'm sure some names will be dropped as others are added over the next several weeks) succeed in swimming against the market tide? I'm not sure whether I'm willing to take that chance with my own money.
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