Stock Market Analysis

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Daily Market Comments 05 July 2006 by MastersoEquity.com

Fundamentals
Markets continue to rally through the short trading day on Monday. It is again a broadbased move with advancers beating decliners by a wide margin and more stocks are making new highs than lows. Overall, it is an extremely bullish sentiment eventhough there was no big move. This is the start of a new quarter and usually, the markets do take well to it. The only fundamental question in mind is oil. Oil prices have been maintained at above $72 per barrel and might put some strain on the market.

Technicals
Markets were in a neutral day on Monday with both index moving sideways at best. It is pretty normal to see the markets go into up to 5 days of sideways consolidation after a big one day move and it is encouraging indeed to see that prices did not ditch like it did so many times after a big one day move in June. We will need to see another rise quickly, breaking new highs, in order to confirm the rally.