$SPY stays in an up trend with price over all moving averages. The MACD is under a bearish cross due to all this sideways action for weeks. RSI 64.20 remains near overbought and the odds here are on more sideways action. There is the potential for a pullback to the key support at the $245 break out […]
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$SPY remains bullish with price above all moving averages and near all time highs. $SPY has closed above the 10 day EMA every day for three weeks. The 50 day SMA is the secondary support after the 10 day EMA intra-day. The average true range of price stopped declining last week. Last week VIX made
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$SPY remains in a strong up trend and pressing new all time highs in price. $SPY is above all moving averages. $SPY is under a bullish MACD crossover. The 66.61 RSI does not leave much room for upside without being overbought. Odds are next week will be a consolidation in $SPY as tech reports earnings.
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