Day Trading with Hary Boxer

The week started off with a bang as the stock market indices gapped up big time, but then pulled back sharply to do retesting at about 2555 on the Nasdaq 100 and 1346 on the S&P 500. That held, and they rallied back in stair-step fashion to reach new highs today at 2572.60 on the NDX and 1353.35 S&P 500, although 1353.35 was not higher than last Thursday‘s high, and we did not get a confirmation on the new NDX high today.

Net on the day, the Dow was up 72.81 at 12,874.04, the S&P 500 up 9.13 to 1351.77, 14 points off its high, and the Nasdaq 100 up 22.17 at 2569.49, 3 points off its high.

Advance-declines were better than 3 to 1 positive on the New York Stock Exchange, and 3 to 1 positive on Nasdaq as well. Up/down volume was 3 1/2 to 1 positive on New York, with total volume a light 675 million shares traded today. Nasdaq traded about 1.58 billion shares, and had an 11 to 4 positive volume ratio.

TheTechTrader.com board, as a result, was mostly higher today. Leading the way, Blue Dolphin Energy Company (BDCO) was up 4.18 to 9.35, or 80.7%, on nearly 900,000 shares traded. Complete Genomics, Inc. (GNOM) jumped 1.37 to 4.66, or 41.6%, on 27 million shares. Mission NewEnergy Limited (MNEL) was up 54 cents to 1.89, or 40%; Excel Maritime Carriers, Ltd. (EXM) 26 cents to 2.15, or 14%; GMX Resources Inc. (GMXR) 30 cents to 1.81, or 20%; Royale Energy Inc. (ROYL) 82 cents to 5.36, or 18%; Kandi Technologies, Corp (KNDI) 46 cents to 3.80, or 13.8%; and LCA-Vision Inc. (LCAV) 70 cents to 5.90, or 13 1/2%.

In addition, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (REGN) gained 12.57 to 114.65 on earnings, Fuel Systems Solutions, Inc. (FSYS) was up 2.58 to 26.74, and DryShips Inc. (DRYS) climbed 34 cents to 3.34 on 23 million shares, in a strong shipping sector. Genco Shipping & Trading Ltd. (GNK) also advanced 59 cents to 9.37 on 2.6 million today in that sector.

Diebold, Incorporated Common St (DBD) snapped back 3.19 to 37.94, E-Commerce China Dangdang Inc. (DANG) jumped 53 cents to 7.41, Pharmacyclics Inc. (PCYC) added 2.22 to 25.45, and Cheniere Energy, Inc. (LNG) rose 1.15 to 15.08. IPG Photonics Corporation (IPGP) was up 4.02 to 59.46, Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (CLNE) 1.10 to 17.38, MAKO Surgical Corp. (MAKO) 1.98 to 34.87, Liquidity Services, Inc. (LQDT), one of our Top 25, 2.29 to 42.49, Acme Packet, Inc. (APKT) 1.66 to 34.20, and Sturm, Ruger & Co. Inc. (RGR) 1.67 to 43.47.

Apple Inc. (AAPL) jumped 9.18 to 502.60, topping 500 for the first time ever.

On the downside, point-plus losers included VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX ST ETN (TVIX), which got crushed today, down 2.86 to 16.19, on 19 million shares as the market rallied all day after the early morning drop. The iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (VXX) was also down 2.11 to 25.76.

Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) got hurt the worst out of all the stocks we follow, down 5.63 to 118.30.

Stepping back and reviewing the hourly chart patterns, the indices were up sharply at the opening, pulled back, and then rallied the rest of the day until the last hour when they pulled back again only to snapback in the last 10 minutes to close very positive on the day on good technicals.

We’ll see how it goes tomorrow.

Good Trading!

Harry