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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Ugly After-Hours Session for the QQQQ

The major stock indexes zig-zagged higher today, the NASDAQ gaining 1.2% on 2.6
billion shares as the Dow Industrials rose 1.85% on 7.3 billion. The Leadership
profile is bearish, but the new lows list has contracted dramatically in this 3-day
rally, today posting 89 new highs and 271 new lows.

The short term momentum oscillators have turned positive, contradicting the bearish
stance of the AlphaKing Trading Indicator. We have no new trades at this time.

It sure looks like the SEC has put the fear of God into the naked short-sellers
who had really piled into financial and homebuilding stocks to record highs. Monday
July 21 is judgment day, the start of the new enforcement of an old rule. Traders
do not want to worry about scrambling to find shares to borrow by the settlement
dates. The stock indexes continue to map out in near-perfect bear market pattern,
and with many big earnings releases after the close today - GOOG, MSFT, IBM - and
the reactions to them after hours, the Nasdaq 100 etf fell hard to below its
lowest trade of the regular session. Things don't look rosy for the bulls here,
and we eagerly anticipate Monday's trade in the dreary homebuilding and financial
stocks.

Chief Trading Strategist Kevin Wilde returns from vacation next week.
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