{"id":1003,"date":"2008-06-01T21:55:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T02:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/weeklyafter-stock-market-review-archives\/stock-market-offers-another-chance-to-lock-in-gains\/"},"modified":"2018-08-12T01:37:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T06:37:29","slug":"stock-market-offers-another-chance-to-lock-in-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/weeklyafter-stock-market-review-archives\/stock-market-offers-another-chance-to-lock-in-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock Market Offers Another Chance To Lock In Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of intraday swings in both the overall equities market and crude prices, with the end result at the end of the week being a small pull back in crude with a decent recovery in stock prices, following a dismal week of distribution.&#160; With the S&amp;P bouncing off the 50 day moving average and the Nasdaq reclaiming support of the 200 day moving average it&#8217;s time buy, buy, buy right?&#160; Wrong!&#160; I still believe we&#8217;re seeing some intermediate topping action in the indices and last week&#8217;s move up was just an oversold retracement of a bearish move.&#160; If you didn&#8217;t lock in hard earned gains off that March bottom in mid May, now is your chance.&#160; What if I&#8217;m wrong and the indices blow through their May highs with volume?&#160; In the off chance that happens, then you just get back in with very little lost in potential on the long side.&#160; Not much potential reward to give up for taking significant risk off the table in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/6108_nasdaq.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"430\" alt=\"6108_nasdaq\" src=\"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/6108_nasdaq_thumb.gif\" width=\"492\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/6108_sp500.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"423\" alt=\"6108_sp500\" src=\"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/6108_sp500_thumb.gif\" width=\"491\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/6108_dow.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"426\" alt=\"6108_dow\" src=\"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/6108_dow_thumb.gif\" width=\"493\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/42708_dow.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>::: Model Portfolio :::<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>** This section will now appear as a <a href=\"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/category\/model-portfolio\/\">separate report about<\/a> every other Wednesday.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>The Self Investors Model Portolio wrapped up 2007 with a 30.2% gain and features annualized returns of 24%.&#160; Would you like to receive buy and sell alerts within minutes (<strong>NEW!<\/strong> now get them via instant messaging in near real time) of each transaction in the portfolio?&#160; You can receive these along with ALL of the tracking tools and reports with the very popular Gold membership.&#160; Don&#8217;t delay, get started today and join me for many more highly profitable months here at SelfInvestors.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>::: Best\/Worst Performers :::<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Top 10 Performing Industries For the Week &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>1. 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