STTG Market Recap; S&P In Correction Mode, Market Selling Off

We continue to have a weird situation between the 2 major indexes as the S&P 500 is clearly in correction mode, but the NASDAQ is doing ok. Generally they move together far more closely, but from a technical perspective we have two completely different reads between them. This was another day of government shutdown and the market is slowly selling off. It has now been just over 2 weeks since the Fed meeting when Bernanke surprised almost everyone with no slowdown of quantitative easing, and it's been almost straight down since for the S&P 500. After a morning selloff on some bad economic data, there was a mid day rally but the shooting in D.C. pressured the market late in the day. The S&P 500 fell 0.90% and the NASDAQ 1.07%. Economic data was weak:

The Institute of Supply Management non-manufacturing survey index fell to 54.4 in September from 58.6 in August. A reading above 50 in the index indicates an expansion in the U.S. service sector. September's reading fell short of the 57.4 consensus expectation in a Reuters poll and even undershot the lowest forecast among the 74 economists surveyed.

Keep in mind with the government shutdown there will be no employment data tomorrow as we normally get.

With the S&P 500 we continue to test this 50 day moving average this week. The NASDAQ on the other hand has only fallen to the 20 day moving average, and has only done that Monday and today had held the 10 day ma.


NYSE McClellan has now gone negative this week after staying positive for the first week of the correction; this indicated breadth is weakening.

VIX remains elevated and today made higher highs...not something bulls want to see.

After a breakout earlier this week, the Transports has broken back into its channel.

Very few sectors are holding up versus the market as a whole but 2 are the energy exploration stocks and biotech.



Last but not least, Twitter today made its IPO filing and will trade under ticker TWTR. From CNBC:

Twitter made its S-1 filing available to the public Thursday, finally shedding some light on its initial public offering plans.

The company intends to trade under the ticker TWTR and seeks to raise $1 billion, according to the filing. Goldman Sachs is the lead underwriter on the deal.

Twitter has seen rapid growth recently. Last year revenue rose 198 percent, to about $317 million, while its net loss declined 38 percent, to about $79 million, the filing said.

According to the filing, Twitter has more than 215 million monthly active users, 100 million of whom are daily active users.

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