Best days in Nasdaq history percentage wise. Portfolio up 12.92% 01/03/01 up 14.17% Greenspan drops rates unexpectedly 50 basis points for fed funds rate 10/15/08 11.81% MS get Japanese 9B infusion. Market rebounds after worst week ever. Banks globally get cash liquidity. Crash bounce. 12/05/00 10.48% Greenspan, crude dropping below $30 and positive election outcome 04/05/01 8.92% DELL affirms guidance and Alcoa has a good quarter. Yahoo got Lehman upgrade. 04/18/01 8.12% Greenspan cuts rates, INTC says demand may have bottomed and TXN says largest wireless customer inventory done and they would be ordering. 05/30/00 7.94% LU buy out offer for Chomatis. Analysts pump semis and opticals. 10/13/00 7.87% Friday the 13th and a Full Moon too. 5/8/02 - 7.78% CSCO beats by 2 cents, QLGC has a strong quarter with further upside. 12/22/00 7.56 Santa Claus visited the Nasdaq 10/21/87 - 7.34% Crash of 1987 bounce toward new highs 4/18/00 - 7.19% Investors buy quality tech issues that had been dragged down by the indiscriminate selling that took place in the past couple of weeks 4/25/00 - 6.57% JDSU amd EMC had great earnings. 4/17/00 - 6.56% Lattice Semi, Texas Instrument, and Vitesse beat estimates. 4/10/01 –– 6.09% CSFB upgrades European telcos to Neutral from underweight, Marconi says it will make numbers. 09/08/98 - 6.02% Greenspan hints he might cut rates. 12/08/00 –– 5.99% INTC up 5.22%. CIBC World Markets upgrades to BUY from HOLD, despite lowering FY01 view by 17.6% to $1.40. Believes worst in stock is over. 10/03/01 - 5.93% CSCO reaffirms guidance, Bush announces financial stimulus package for business, NAPM non-manufacturing index for September came in at 50.2 percent, up from the previous month's 45.5 percent and much higher than the expected 43.3 percent. 10/20/87 - 5.92% Crash bounce. 11/14/00 5.78% GLW announces an alliance with CSCO in optical infrastructure. 10/31/00 5.58% Halloween

GS up 25% EP up 24% F up 23% FCX up 24% I do like the quotetracker. Thanks again The percentage will be the final numbers vs. the 3:02 which has not settled.
finance.yahoo.com NYSE Volume 2,774,373,676 – lighter due Columbus day Up Volume 2,370,549,037 (85%) Down Volume 395,395,355 (14%) Advancers 3,251 (93%) A strong bullish signal when above 90%. Decliners 223 (6%) New Highs 2 New Lows 37
Nasdaq Volume 2,549,463,830 Up Volume 2,460,138,724 (96%) Down Volume 2,332,186,696 (91%) Advancers 82,696,471 (3%) Decliners 2,517 (82%) New Highs 3 New Lows 132
Put/Call ratio 0.89 Under 0.40 is Very Bullish sentiment, 0.40-59 Bullish, 0.60-0.79, Neutral, 0.800-0.99 Bearish, Over 1.00 Very Bearish. When many are bullish, this may be time to take profit.
VIX 54.81. When it runs below 20, usually a good time to take some profits. If above 35, good time to buy.
Sector Watch Breakout of the day $OSX Oil Services 169.76 +28.70 +20.35% The sector that was down so far gets new life.
Collapse of the day none, all sectors were up. GE closed down. Huge volume made GE investors what they did wrong. Give it a day.
Crude $81.70 Nat Gas $6.69 Gold $837 Silver $10.80
DJIA 9387.61 up 11.08% or 936.42 points S&P 1003.28 up 11.57% or 104.06 points – broke 8 day losing streak. NASDAQ 1844.25 up 11.81% or 194.74 |