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To: John Pitera who wrote (473)3/16/2000 12:39:00 AM
From: John Pitera  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 33421
 
The DJIA Chart appears to be completing an Expanding Triangle

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and could well rally to resistance at 10700-10800

nice commentary from this evening

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The session marked an incredible role reversal between old-economy industrial stocks and new-economy high-tech issues, which until recently had seemed immune to worries that have plagued the broader market.
It was the first time in a long period that blue-chips resoundingly took the lead and outpaced high-techs, which just four sessions ago had led the Nasdaq Composite Index to a new record.
With renewed interest in cheapened financial and other out-of-favor old-economy stocks, the Dow Jones Industrial Average powered ahead 320.17 points, its fourth-biggest point gain, to close at 10131.41. The biggest gain ever was 380.53 points on Sept. 8, 1998.
The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index added 33, or 2.4%, to 1392.15, while the New York Stock Exchange Composite Index gained 16.59, or 2.8%, to 605.02.
But there was another story behind the gains, and it was the sudden discomfort investors are feeling with their once-prized technology stocks. These issues had risen to levels market watchers considered overvalued and destined to fall. Indeed, the past three sessions technology stocks have gone through some nerve-wracking losses.
On Wednesday, the Nasdaq Composite Index sank 124.01 to 4582.62 -- adding to a loss of 340 points the prior two sessions that were based largely on valuation fears. The dumping on the technology sector has pushed the Nasdaq composite 9.2% from its high of 5048.62, reached on Friday. Wall Street defines a 10% drop as a correction.
Despite the decline, the biggest three-day point drop for the Nasdaq composite, the index is still up 12.6% for the year, while the Dow industrials are down 11.9% and mired for some time in a correction from a high of 11722.98 set on Jan. 14. The question now is whether the technology sector will now become mired in a stumble as well.



To: John Pitera who wrote (473)3/16/2000 1:21:00 AM
From: IndexTrader  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 33421
 
John,

Thank you for the excellent charts.
With all that overhead resistance, and the wedge still being in effect...

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...probably the most positive action would be a couple of inside days to build up pressure. I suppose that could happen if money starts to move back into the Naz or if we go into a holding pattern in front of the Fed meeting.

I will be watching breadth over the next few days to see if the A/D holds up. If so, things look pretty good (except for that darned wedge).
Susan