Archive for September 26th, 2010

Stock Market Weekly Update 09 20 – 09 24 2010

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

Stocks recorded their fourth consecutive week of gains and ended higher despite a midweek slump Stocks as investors see better days ahead for the economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 all moved higher. Investors appeared to ruminate over the Federal Reserve’s announcement on Tuesday that the central bank would “provide additional accommodation if needed to support the economic recovery”—a sign that policymakers remained concerned about recent weakness in economic data

Housing starts surged 10.5 percent in August, to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 598,000. The jump was a surprise to economists, and a contrast to July’s data, which was revised downward slightly to an increase of just 0.4 percent.

New home sales for August showed an uptick from July, moving from 276,000 to 288,000 annualized sales and roughly in line with the consensus number of 290,000

In the 2 markets I love to hate, Crude oil futures were trading at $76.30 a barrel on Friday afternoon and Gold futures surged above $1,300 an ounce for a few moments on Friday, setting all time highs.

Index

Friday’s Close

Week’s Change

% Change
Year-to-Date

DJIA

10860.26

252.41

4.14%

S&P 500

1148.67

23.08

3.01%

NASDAQ Composite

2381.22

65.61

4.94%

S&P MidCap 400

796.29

15.48

9.58%

Russell 2000

669.74

17.28

5.63%

For the week we took out a solid 19.5 points putting us at 43.2 for the month and for the year we are now at a continued record setting 487.15

Remember…. Each point = $1 in profits x the number of shares you would normally trade… So if you would have been trading with us in all our previous open positions and closed out along with us, with just an average of 1000 shares per trade you would have made $19,500 this week

Open Positions

Note…. In many of these trades we may have already taken some profits which are included in the totals above therefore these totals reflect current open positions only.


STOCK

TRADE DATE LONG /SHORT

ENTRY PRICE

CURRENT PRICE

Current P/L POINTS

PRAA

feb-22

S

53.2

67.44

-14.24

CTV

sep-13

L

21.65

23.47

1.82

GRMN

sep-13

L

28.4

31.6

3.2

ITRI

sep-13

L

60.1

59.16

-0.94

RTH

sep-13

L

93.45

98.73

5.28

WFMI

sep-20

L

38.15

37.07

-1.08

SWK

sep-23

S

58.6

60.51

-1.91