To: Jack Hartmann who wrote (6272 ) 3/23/2009 6:38:05 PM From: Jack Hartmann Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 6924 Best days in Nasdaq history percentage wise. 01/03/01 up 14.17% Greenspan drops rates unexpectedly 50 basis points for fed funds rate 10/13/08 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 10/28/08 9.53% Anticipation of a FED rate cut. BA settles strike. Housing inventories decline. 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 03/10/09 7.07% C announces a profit in 2 months shocking everyone, Fed promises uptick rule for shorting. 3/23/09 6.76% Geithner and Obama offer toxic asset bailouts. 4/25/00 - 6.57% JDSU amd EMC had great earnings. 4/17/00 - 6.56% Lattice Semi, Texas Instrument, and Vitesse beat estimates. 11/13/08 - 6.50 The market tested the 839 lows of Oct 11 and bounced back with a fury. 11/24/08 - 6.33% C gets government bailout part 2. 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 10/16/08 5.49% unemployment and inflation steady. 11/21/08 - 5.18% Obama names NY Fed as Treasury Secretary condidatefinance.yahoo.com NYSE Up Volume unknown Advancers 3,411 (87%) New Highs 14 New Lows 76 Nasdaq Volume 2,281,883,669 high Up Volume 2,137,084,141 (94%) Advancers 2,335 (80%) New Highs 12 New Lows 26 Put/Call ratio 0.70 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 43.23 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 $$BKX Banks 30.88 +4.84 +18.59% All bad assets go to Fed. Throw a party. Collapse of the day $XJY Japanese Yen 103.17 -1.03 -0.99% Crude $53.79 Nat Gas $4.30 Gold $939 Silver $13.63 Copper $1.77 DJIA 7,775.86 +497.48 6.8% NASDAQ 1,555.77 +98.50 6.8% S&P 822.92 +54.38 7.1% Many calling it a new rally off the bottom. I cannot buy into this. I see the market going down in April. Maybe one more 5% run day before the bottom comes.