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Dave Landry has been actively trading the markets since the early 90s. He is managing member of Sentive Trading, LLC (est 1995) and author of 3 books of trading including The Layman’s Guide to Trading Stocks. He has made several television appearances, written articles for numerous magazines, He has spoken at trading conferences throughout the world (including Russia, Hong Kong, Australia, Germany, Italy, and others). He has been publishing daily web based commentary on technical trading since 1997. He has a B.S. in Computer Science and an MBA. He was registered Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) from 1995 to 2009. He is a board member of the American Association of Professional Technical Analysts. Dave can be reached at www.davelandry.com

Don’t Argue With This

By Dave Landry | Daily Commentary , Random Thoughts

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The Ps didn’t set the world on fire but they did manage to close 1/3% higher. This action keeps them just shy of all-time highs.

The Quack gained over ½%. This action has it within 1 point of multi-year closing highs.

Yet again, the Trannies continued to plow ahead, gaining nearly 1%. This action keeps them at all-time highs.

Defense, Drugs, Manufacturing, Leisure, Media, Retail, and many sub-sectors therein also closed at new highs.

Metals & Mining continue to improve. They are just shy of multi-month highs. The individual issues here are looking even better.

Foreign shares (EFA) are just shy of multi-year highs.

I suppose there’s always something to worry about. Once again, there were a few debacle de jours—e.g. CAM in the Energies, TQNT in the Semis.

Yet again, overall, in spite of some pockets of weakness, things still look pretty good.

I’m not going to argue with a market that’s at or near new highs.

So what do we do? I’m starting to see a few pullbacks setting up in the aforementioned stronger areas. Therefore, start looking to add/add back on the long side. As usual, make sure you wait for entries. As I preach, this, in and of itself, can often keep you out of new trouble. Continue putting together your momentum watch lists (or pay me to do it for you). Once again, as long as the market remains near new highs, I would avoid the short side for now. Regardless of what you do, make sure you honor your stops once triggered

Futures are flat pre-market.

Best of luck with your trading today!

Dave

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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