Hi Donald;  High Dollar  with last weeks down draft , most TA is showing the NDX short term oversold, however I have doubts about taht. 
  The A/D in the NDX Friday was A 58/ D41 unchanged 1, and the average stock price was up 9 cents However the VOLUME was "very" heavy on the Down stocks dollar wise 17.9 Bil  traded down and only 14.5 bil up. ( real trin on NDX was 1.75 ) The dollar index rallied back up .4 of 1% and that may have saved a deeper sell off. All the noise aside the dollar is critical to which way we go, however when the BIG companies complain of a high dollar killing profits, stocks always get in trouble. The value of our stock market is tied so much to foreign investors that when the dollar falls they bail out. I'm surprised the dollar got as high as it did with all the rate cuts..there must be a lot of shorts on it. I heard one pundit predict a 25% drop in the dollar..( rather extreme ) but even if he is half right that would drop the big caps to new lows. ------------------------ While new highs seem to be out doing new lows at this point I think that indicates how washed out the lows are , but the new highs are just making the indexes dependent on a narrow ( top heavy ) few and if they roll over the total market cap can fall fast . So maybe a short term bounce about Tuesday but I'm worried about a hard down draft hitting latter and when no one expects it. Jim P.S. did you see the volume on CSCO ? However MSFT because of her price effected the dollar tick more. here is a look at the 41 down stocks Friday..Price X Volume -------------- Symbol	Last	Chg	Volume	DOWN 41 stocks MSFT	68.02	-0.88	54246200	3,689,826,524 CSCO	16.65	-1.09	116650496	1,942,230,758 CIEN	40.14	-4.53	35388200	1,420,482,348 JDSU	12.44	-1.37	82851200	1,030,668,928 AMAT	49.91	-1.09	20592500	1,027,771,675 QCOM	49.35	-2.15	17188500	848,252,475 DELL	24.32	-0.72	34148300	830,486,656 VRTS	59.96	-0.06	12854400	770,749,824 SUNW	15.19	-0.31	45061300	684,481,147 JNPR	31.14	-1.16	20362200	634,078,908 WCOM	15.8	-0.30	27945700	441,542,060 MXIM	47.14	-1.43	8152900	384,327,706 BRCM	31.92	-1.12	11872200	378,960,624 SANM	21.26	-1.15	16559600	352,057,096 MERQ	54.79	-0.04	5400600	295,898,874 LLTC	46.89	-0.63	5851700	274,386,213 TLAB	24.51	-1.20	10537700	258,279,027 PMCS	27.66	-1.59	9219500	255,011,370 AMCC	15.42	-1.17	16444200	253,569,564 TMPW	55.61	-2.36	4539200	252,424,912 CEFT	50.27	-0.54	4645100	233,509,177 NXTL	14.25	-0.19	13133300	187,149,525 NTAP	14.74	-0.33	12096300	178,299,462 VTSS	18.98	-0.64	7869200	149,357,416 EXDS	4.61	-0.40	31001300	142,915,993 YHOO	16.01	-0.46	8630200	138,169,502 ADLAC	41	-1.13	2771400	113,627,400 MCLD	3.53	-0.27	31599900	111,547,647 ADCT	7.26	-0.15	13741900	99,766,194 AMZN	12.49	-0.80	7671600	95,818,284 BMET	45.09	-1.12	2049100	92,393,919 LVLT	7.62	-0.34	11220300	85,498,686 PALM	5.14	-0.36	14497000	74,514,580 INKT	8.53	-0.22	5930500	50,587,165 MFNX	3.49	-0.06	10791000	37,660,590 COMS	4.62	-0.25	8075900	37,310,658 PMTC	10.76	-0.04	3184100	34,260,916 BVSN	4.57	-0.08	7367800	33,670,846 ARBA	4.82	-0.31	6225400	30,006,428 RNWK	10.39	-0.31	2440800	25,359,912 XOXO	2.44	-0.07	7419000	18,102,360 Totals	41 stocks down    	$17,995,013,349 ---------------------------- and like I said the 58 up stocks only had $14,518,920,971 dollars traded ------------------------------- P.S 2 the way I do trin is more extream ( both ways) regular trin calculations do A/D                                         -----( diveded by )                                        up/dn volume with no consideration of  the "price"  of the a/d stocks. so it don't have Dollars in it. Mine does. |