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DOW Directions 03-25-08 (Tuesday): A Daily Technical Analytical View of Stocks, Futures, Eminis and Forex for online and day traders.

DIA (Dow ETF): Daily trends turning up, weekly trends continue “weakly”.

Monday’s market continued its positive push and ended up +187.32.  Usually, a turn in the daily trend is sign of positive prices in the near future.  We need to excercize caution as the daily trend turns.  The weekly trends are still very negative.  If the daily prices continue to push higher, eventually the weekly trend will change to positive.  The market needs a very positive week to accomplish this task.

The daily StoRSI, our momentum oscillator, turned up once again.  This is the fifth directional change in the StoRSI in the past two weeks.   The current level puts momentum near its upper trigger level and we should expect it to traverse above the red line, upper trigger level, as it starts to encounter resistance.   

The T8 (maroon line), our moving average that defines trend, has changed direction and is now pointing up. This could be the beginning of a new leg to the upside.  The only negative technical news is that the weekly T8 is still in a horrid tailspin.  The weekly chart still is very very negative and could choke back any real potential on the upside.

Mondday’s candlestick was not a significant candle.

***Volatility Alert:

During the third week in July, volatility returned to the major stock indices. For approximately four years, the markets have had low to very low volatility. This significant change has ushered in swings of 100, 200 & 300+ points, sometimes on a day-to-day basis. Stock indices tend to be either volatile, or not, for three to five years at a time. Expect continued volatility. The current volatility cycle has just started its volatile period. We feel this is the early stages of volatility and we continue to believe it is here to stay.

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