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Last-Hour Stock Rally Pares Losses
By Harry Boxer | Published  10/14/2010 | Stocks | Unrated
Last-Hour Stock Rally Pares Losses

The stock market indices suffered losses today, but a last hour sharp rally back brought them back from much deeper losses and closed down nearly unchanged today.

The day started out with a move down. The indices then bounced, made lower lows, and then had the best rally of the day until the last hour in the morning, reaching the highs for the session at about 10:30. They then stair-stepped their way lower all day, reaching the lows with about an hour to go at 2043.70 on the Nasdaq 100, but rallied 11 points on the NDX in the last hour. The S&P 500 rallied almost 7 points to close right at resistance.

Net on the day, the Dow was down just 1.51 at 11,094.57, the S&P 500 closed down 4.29 at 1173.81, and the Nasdaq 100 lost just 2.74 at 2054.51.

Advance-declines were negative by 17 to 12 on the New York Stock Exchange and by 14 to 12 on Nasdaq. Up/down volume was 2 to 1 negative on New York on volume of 1.1 billion. Nasdaq traded just under 2 billion and had about an 11 to 8 negative plurality.

However, in afterhours Google (GOOG) crushed earnings and was up 40 points, leading the NDX and the futures higher. We'll see what kind of follow-through we get tomorrow, particularly with Google earnings.

TheTechTrader.com board was mixed. There were many gainers and losers. On the plus side today, leading the way was Zagg Inc. (ZAGG), up 2.17 to 7.29, a big percentage gain there. Spreadtrum Communications Inc. (SPRD) was up 86 cents to 12.93, DAQQ New Energy Corp. (DQ) 1.23 at 13.94, Cree Inc. (CREE) 1.24 to 55.86, and Apple Inc. (AAPL) 2.17 to 302.60, trading at 303.25 in the aftermarket.

Other stocks of note: Isilon Systems Inc. (ISLN) jumped 59 cents to 27.22, JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd (JKS) 41 cents to 30.82, IDT Corp (IDT) 62 cents to 18.06, and Exact Sciences Corporation (EXAS), a recent swing trade pick, 52 cents to 8.91. Amtech Systems Inc. (ASYS) added 85 cents to 18.51.

In addition, the Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares (FAZ) jumped 47 cents to 12.58, and the iPath S&P 500VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (VXX) 50 cents to 14.70.

On the downside, Goldman Sachs (GS) lost 3.14 to 151.59 as financials were very weak today. Motricity Inc. (MOTR), after some very sharp recent gains reversed lower, down 2.82 to 17.18. Those were our only point-plus losers today.

Stepping back and reviewing the hourly chart patterns, the indices came down early, bounced, and then stair-stepped their way lower to new lows for the session, reaching the bottom of the 2-day down channels with an hour to go. That's where they bounced sharply into the close, closing near resistance at the declining topslines and lateral price resistance.

Again, it will be very interesting to see how they do tomorrow based on the afterhours news from Google.

Harry Boxer is a technical consultant to many Wall Street hedge funds and large institutional traders, and author of TheTechTrader.com.