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The Generals did step in on Wednesday to buy stocks and again yesterday, the first day of June as some new money was put to work. And that might be the case again today as anticipated (5/31/06 commentary). The SPX closed at 1285.71 +1.2% and is +3.2% off of last week’s 1245.34 low which was a key price zone and short-term/intermediate oversold condition. The Dow was +0.8% to 11,260 while the QQQQ +2.4% for 39.74 and the Nasdaq Composite +1.9% to 2220. Technology was the most oversold after the recent decline. The SMH followed the +1.2% gain Wednesday with a +1.7 advance yesterday. The minor resistance is 35.11 and major resistance 36-36.50. There is major QQQQ resistance from 40.20 – 40.50. The SPX runs into a resistance zone with symmetry from 1290 -1296 while is minor resistance at 11,350 for the Dow.

The commodity sector stocks have been the primary daytrading focus and yesterday was another excellent opportunity because the energy, gold, copper, and steel stocks all opened down accelerating to volatility band levels which set up Trap Doors and RSTs. Other Professional Trader Service stocks like CTSH +5.2%, LOSCX +3.3%, and XRAY +3.1% had excellent moves. Other leaders like brokerages, transportation, and defense stocks also advanced and they also have been in integral part of the primary daytrading focus.

NYSE volume was 1.68 billion shares down from 1.94 billion shares on 5/31/06. But the internals were strong with the volume ratio 83 and breadth +18.33. However, short-term internals at month-end and the first few days of the new month are skewed because of the long bias especially in the primary uptrend in which the SPX and DOW still remains.

Daytraders should remain focused on energy, gold, cooper, steel, brokerages, transportation, defense and those industrial stocks that are still above the line like Ingersoll Rand (IR | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), GE (GE | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), Caterpillar (CAT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), Tractor Supply (TSCO | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and Fluor (FLR | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) to name a few.

Have a good trading day,
Kevin