(Negative) Outlook for Friday, October 22, 2010

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Just a quick pre-opening post with respect to the SPY‘s (S&P 500 SPDR) negative outlook on Friday, October 22, 2010.

On Thursday's session the SPY posted a higher high, a higher low, was up +0.83% at the end of the first hour of the session, but lower -0.05% at the start of the last hour of the session (a sell-off during the mid part of the session), and closed below the midpoint (between the intraday high and the intraday low) of the session, which historically shows (significantly) negative tendency with respect to the SPY‘s next session's performance.

Table I below shows those occurrences and the SPY‘s historical intraday performance (since 01/01/1990) with respect to the intraday low (low vs. previous close), the intraday high (high vs. previous close), a potential lower low (low vs. previous low), a potential higher high (high vs. previous high), at the end of the first hour of the session in comparison to the previous session's close (1st hr. vs. prev. close), at the start of the last hour of the session in comparison to the previous session's close (last hr. vs. prev. close), and on the close (close vs. prev. close) after the SPY had posted a higher high, a higher low, was up > +0.75% at the end of the first hour, but lower (< 0%) at the start of the last hour, and closed below the midpoint of the session in the past.

Especially noteworthy are the following pattern:

• the SPY closed lower the next session on 10 out of 11 occurrences (or 91% of the time),
• the SPY posted a lower low and a lower high on all of those 11 occurrences,
• the SPY was trading at a lower level (or unchanged) at the end of the first and the start of the last hour on 10 out of 11 occurrences (vs. the previous close) (or 91% of the time),
• (not shown) the SPY closed below the trigger day's close at least once over the course of the then following 5 sessions on all of those 11 occurrences.

Conclusions:

Although 11 occurrences is nothing to read anything statistically significant into it, it nevertheless shows a significant negative tendency with respect to the SPY‘s next session's (intraday) performance, and any pre-opening higher prices (ES E-mini) or strength right at the start of today's session might provide a favorable short-term selling (shorting) opportunity.

Successful trading,

Frank

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Disclosure: No position in the securities mentioned in this post at time of writing.

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