S&P 500 10-Day A/D Line

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One of the features of our mini-institutional research product is the Daily S&P 500 and Sector 10-Day A/D Line.  At the end of each day, we calculate the net number of S&P 500 stocks that were up on the day (up stocks minus down stocks).  Then we add up each of those daily values over the last ten days to come up with the chart below.  Whenever the reading gets too high, it indicates the market may be due for a pull back, and whenever it gets to low, it indicates the market may see a bounce in the near future.  Last week, we highlighted how the reading for the S&P 500 was the most overbought it has been since November.

Well after two relatively lousy days this week, we revisited where the 10-Day A/D line stands for the market and each of its sectors.  Unfortunately, as the chart and table below highlight, the market itself (and most of the sectors) are all currently in neutral territory.  While the market can certainly rise from these levels, the risk reward based on this particular indicator is neutral.  Looking forward, these reading are likely to continue staying in neutral territory until at least the middle of next week when we drop off some of the big up days from last week.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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