– Stock Market Companion – Current Holdings –

Nr.	Co.	Ticker	Action	Entry Date	Current Gain (Loss)
1	Gentiva Health	GTIV	Holding	11/15/2011	+12%
2	Boeing, Co.	BA	Holding	12/22/2011	-2%

– Markets “At a Glance” –

(Please scroll down to the end of the report to see your favorite benchmarks – Dollar, Oil, Gold … closing prices and daily direction.)

 

Market	Price (Today’s Close)	Unit of Measure	Today’s Direction
SP-500	1,249.64	Index	DOWN = -15.79 points
DOW-30	12,151.41	Index	DOWN = -139.94 points
NASDAQ	2,589.98	Index	DOWN = -35.22 points

 

– Market Trends –

 

Trend	SP-500	DJ-30	NASDAQ
Short Term	Down	Down	Down
Intermediate	Flat	Flat	Flat
Long Term	Lateral	Lateral	Lateral

 

*Summary of terms from Trader Vic II-Principles of Professional Speculation (pg. 140-141)
*_________* Represents a change in trend rating.

 

– Market Perspectives –

 

For your added perspective, we’ve included this chart of the broader market (Successful stock investors develop and start with a minds-eye view of the broader market and keep it clear) –

 

SMC SP-500 ETF Daily Chart (Please click on the chart to see a bigger, easy to read chart on a separate browser tab window).

 

 

– Today’s Highlights –

We provide you with continuous measures of the broader market using the S&P 500 ETF (Ticker: SPY).   This is your road-map which defines the condition of the market and gives you a clear idea if the environment is suitable for investing in stocks.

Successful investors know at all times the short, intermediate, and long term trend condition of the broader market.   From over 24 years of investing in the markets, we have found that this is the most efficient means of keeping a pulse on the market.  We have designed your SMC 15Minute Market Update so that within a few minutes you can stay in-step with the market.  Over time, SMC subscriber friends are able to engage the market with confidence based on this understanding of trend analysis.

It was this trend analysis that kept us out of trouble during the 2008-early 2009 financial crisis and that allowed us to achieve very strong returns in 2010.  This year, we have been able to beat the market again (but not by much).  This year, we simply avoided a lot of heartache – but not completely.  We also had several nice investment victories.

When you look at today’s SMC Daily S&P 500 ETF (Ticker: SPY) Chart, you will see that the market “jack-knifed” back down from the key resistance line that we have drawn boldly on your chart.  Volume increased a little over yesterday, but still volume is running only at about half of average daily volume.  So we caution anyone from making any conclusions from today’s action in the markets.  If today’s volume was significantly higher, we would expect more weakness to come.

The U.S. dollar rose in value against the euro today, even though the European markets breathed a sigh of relief with Italy being able to sell bonds at dramatically reduced rates from recent highs.

 

 

– Story-Stock Investing –

By the end of this year, we are going to expand this section to include a new structure and  format that we have developed to communicate much clearer and from different perspectives the relevance and emergence of new stocks.  We believe that you will like this approach very much and that it will positively influence your investing for years to come.  It will give you a very useful lens from which to see individual company stocks CLEARLY.   Stay tuned!

Here are three charts with notes to give you a picture of developments at some interesting companies.  Please click on each one separately to make them big and easy to read on a separate browser tab – automatically.

 

 

– Benchmarks “At a Glance” –

 

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