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Thursday, December 29th, 2011

 
Presented by Nick Santiago
Tomorrow Is The Final Trading Session Of 2011

Investors operate with limited funds and limited intelligence, they don't need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge.

George Soros  

I will be on vacation this week, therefore, only the master numbers will be updated. If I see anything of importance I will post it via the Hot Charts or in the Daily Market Report.  

The master resistance levels for the S&P 500 Index are 1263, 1280, 1299, 1316, 1335, 1352, and 1371. The master support levels for the S&P 500 Index are 1244, 1226, 1209, 1192, 1175, 1158, 1141, 1121, 1107, 1090, 1074, 1058, 1041, and 1026.



February crude finished the session higher by $0.29 to $99.65 per barrel. The master resistance levels for crude are 100.00, 105.00, 109.00, 115.00, 119.00, and 125.00. The master support levels for crude are 95.00, 89.00, 84.00, 79.00, 74.00, 69.50, and 66.00. Please remember oil is very sensitive to adverse weather, geopolitical events, and the U.S. Dollar.  



February gold finished the session lower by $23.20 to close at $1540.90 an ounce. The master support levels for gold are 1537, 1515, 1498, 1477, 1460, 1439, 1422, and 1400. The master resistance levels for gold are 1554, 1577, 1594, 1617, 1634, 1657, 1674, 1698, 1716, 1740, 1758, 1782, 1800, 1825, 1842, 1867, 1886, 1911, 1930, 1955, 1974, and 1999.



The 10 year bond yield finished the session lower by 0.011 to close at 1.897%. The support levels for the yield are 1.83%, 1.76%, 1.69%, 1.63%, 1.57%, 1.51%, 1.45%, and 1.39%. The resistance levels for the yield are 1.90%, 1.97%, 2.04%, 2.11%, 2.18%, 2.25%, 2.33%, 2.41%, 2.49%, 2.57%, 2.65%, 2.73%, 2.81%, 2.89%, 2.98%, 3.07%, 3.16%, 3.25%, 3.34%, 3.43%, 3.52%, 3.61%, 3.71% 3.81%, 3.91%, and 4.01%.

 
Market Breadth
NYSENASDAQ
Advancing Issues2,430 (77%)1,886 (70%)
Declining Issues651 (21%)722 (27%)
Unchanged Issues92 (3%)95 (4%)
Total Issues3,1732,703
New Highs12134
New Lows2972
Up Volume2,038,199,180 (90%)864,654,933 (83%)
Down Volume198,518,276 (9%)161,313,432 (16%)
Unchanged Volume16,964,390 (1%)12,746,380 (1%)
Total Volume2,253,681,8461,038,714,745
Most Actives
SymbolClosing PriceChangeVolume
(BAC) Bank of America $5.46+$0.18 (3.31%)166,366,500
(GE) General Electric $18.07+$0.24 (1.35%)41,010,972
(F) Ford Motor Company $10.68+$0.16 (1.52%)34,280,850
Biggest Gainers
SymbolClosing PriceChangeVolume
(LIVE) LiveDeal, Inc.$4.38+$1.32 (43.14%)294,796
(NSSC) NAPCO Security Technologies$2.51+$0.40 (18.96%)415,887
(CRME) Cardiome Pharma Corp$2.61+$0.38 (17.04%)1,192,505
Biggest Losers
SymbolClosing PriceChangeVolume
(CYAN) Cyanotech Corp$7.62-$1.28 (14.37%)132,400
(PTEK) PokerTek, Inc$1.09-$0.16 (12.80%)303,629
(CSKI) China Sky One Medical$1.02+$0.11 (9.97%)341,221
Last modified on Thursday, 29 December 2011 23:14
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