{"id":32,"date":"2005-01-05T19:40:17","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T00:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/?p=32"},"modified":"2018-08-11T21:39:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T02:39:51","slug":"market-faces-a-big-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/state-of-the-stock-market\/market-faces-a-big-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Market Faces a Big Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">Another early rally attempt gives way to institutional selling late in the day.&nbsp; That is the theme we have seen in the last three days, but the indices are still holding major support levels. If they don&#8217;t hold, it could open the floodgates for more selling pressure.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s take a look at the charts:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The Nasdaq currently sits right at support of the convergence of its short term channel and the 50 day moving average.&nbsp; It is highly likely that it will eventually drop and test that intermediate trend line around 2080, but if it should drop below that last line of support with heavy volume, a drop all the way to 2000 becomes probable.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">The Dow has some room to drop before testing its major level of support around 10500.&nbsp; If it can&#8217;t hold that level, a drop to 10250 becomes much more likely.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">The S&amp;P edges closer to its major support level around the covergence of the short term channel and the 50 day moving average.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another early rally attempt gives way to institutional selling late in the day.&nbsp; That is the theme we have seen in the last three days, but the indices are still holding major support levels. If they don&#8217;t hold, it could open the floodgates for more selling pressure.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s take a look at the charts: The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/state-of-the-stock-market\/market-faces-a-big-test\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Market Faces a Big Test<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-of-the-stock-market"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}