Technical Stock Market Report

The good news is: New highs are strong, new lows are minimal and the secondaries are outperforming the blue chips.

The Negatives:  The market is overbought.

The positives:  New highs have been holding at comfortable levels and new lows have remained at insignificant levels.

The first chart covers the past 6 months showing the NASDAQ composite (OTC) in blue and a 40% trend (4 day EMA) of NASDAQ new highs divided by new highs + new lows (OTC HL Ratio), in red.  Dashed vertical lines have been drawn on the 1st trading day of each month.  Dashed horizontal lines have been drawn at 10% levels for the indicator, the line is solid at the 50%, neutral level.

OTC HL Ratio fell a little last week, but finished the week at a very strong 78%.

The next chart is similar to the one above except it shows the S&P 500 (SPX) in red and NY HL Ratio, in blue, has been calculated from NYSE data.

NY HL Ratio also fell a little last week, but finished the week at an extremely high 94%.

The next chart shows the OTC in blue and a 10% trend (19 day EMA) of NASDAQ new highs (OTC NH) in green.

OTC NH declined a bit last week, but finished the week at a very comfortable 129.

The next chart is similar to the one above except is shows the SPX in red and NY NH, in green, has been calculated from NYSE data.

NY NH also declined a little last week, but at 214 it is in the stratosphere..

Conclusion

Central banks continue to use BREXIT as an excuse to print money -- and that money continues to find its way into equities and debt.

I expect the major averages to be higher on Friday August 12 than they were on Friday August 5.

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Disclaimer:  Charts and figures presented herein are believed to be reliable but I cannot attest to their accuracy.  Recent (last 10-15 yrs.) data has been supplied by CSI (csidata.com), FastTrack (fasttrack.net), Quotes Plus and the Wall Street Journal (wsj.com).  Historical data is from Barron’s and ISI price books.  The views expressed dare provided for information purposes only and should not be construed in any way as investment advice.  Furthermore, the opinions expressed may change without notice.