Very Tough Day Wall Street

Harry Boxer The Technical Trader

The stock market indices had a topsy-turvy day with a pop at the opening, a sharp selloff that held support, then a huge rally that took the Nasdaq 100 from 4849 to 4897, and the S&P 500 from 2198 to 2209. In the afternoon, they consolidated and it looked like they were going higher, but when they failed to do so, they pulled back very sharply, and took a fifty percent retrace of the whole rally, and then had a little bounce at the close. They managed to close positive. But it wasn’t a very spectacular day.

Net on the day, the Dow was up 23.70 at 19,121.60. The S&P 500 was up 2.94 at 2204.66. The Nasdaq 100 was up 16.19 at 4873.21.

Advance-declines were positive by 80 issues on the Nasdaq. The Nasdaq traded 1.7 billion shares and had an 8 to 7 positive volume ratio.

TheTechTrader.com board was very mixed today. Priceline.com (PCLN) was down 4.80 to 1520.27, Apple Inc. (AAPL) down 12 cents to 111.44, Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) down 5.22 to 761.55, but Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) gained 2.60 to 770.84 as did Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), up 58 cents to 117.51.

Baidu, Inc. (BIDU) popped 2.18 to 169.18, Facebook, Inc. (FB) gained 46 cents to 120.87, but First Solar, Inc. (FSLR) dropped 1.16 to 29.95.

Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA) Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA) lost 6.55 to 189.67.

Acacia Communications, Inc. (ACIA) was also down 2.26 to 70.67.

To the upside, gainers included CoLucid Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (CLCD), up 2.35 to 36.25, Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (SCMP) up 1.00 to 17.15, and Clovis Oncology Inc (CLVS) 1.21 to 35.60.

The Direxion Daily S&P Biotech Bull 3X ETF (LABU) got hit back and closed-up just 38 cents to 41.52.

It was a very tough picture on Wall Street today, and tough to tell what that means directionally. Although we did have a new high for this entire rally on the Nasdaq 100, they failed to confirm on the S&P 500.

It could be a negative divergence, but we’ll just have to wait to see how it goes tomorrow.

Good Trading!

Author

Harry Boxer

The Technical Trader

Regular columnist on ADVFN, Stockhouse, and DecisionPoint, among many sites, and regular guest on WinningOnWallStreet, Marketviews.tv, KFWB-Radio Los Angeles, and more. Frequent guest columnist on CBSMarketWatch.

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