A Stock-Picker's Wish
Thursday's poor reaction to the European Central Bank had market players a bit worried about today's European summit meeting, but with expectations so low the fact that nothing much was accomplished turned out to be irrelevant. Frankly, I suspect that market participants are so tired of the constant focus on Europe that they were anxious to just ignore it for a while and focus on stock-picking instead.
While the point gain was quite good and breadth was around 5:1 positive, volume declined after a technical distribution day on Thursday. That isn't a good sign for sustained momentum, but the technical setup continues to look promising for an attack on overhead resistance at the 200-day simple moving average of the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq....137 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
There’s no substitute for a trading floor to get great ideas, so Jim Cramer created a better one at Real Money and blogs there exclusively. We then added legendary hedge fund manager, Doug Kass, with his exclusive Daily Diary and best investing ideas. Staffed with more than 4 dozen investing pros, money managers, journalists and analysts, Real Money Pro gives you a flood of opinions, analysis and actionable trading advice found nowhere else, and allows you to interact directly with each expert.
Already a Subscriber? Please login.

