Thursday, June 26, 2008

S&P 500 Trendline, Support and Resistance after Big Drop Today



The S&P 500 ($SPX) went down 38.82 points (-2.94%) to close at 1283.15.

Next support levels are the important 1270 and 1219 levels. (See the horizontal blue lines in chart above). The stock market could bounce on these support levels, or else these support levels could break and then we find new support levels and resistance levels.

Looking at the three year trend line (the blue diagonal trend line), we notice that that from 2005-2008, the blue diagonal trend line was support, establishing a trend. However, in 2008, we notice that the S&P 500 broke down below this trend line and remains below the trendline.

In chart analysis (also known as technical analysis), the usual rule is that support levels which have been breached now become resistance.

So now, the long three year trend line is the upper resistance of the S&P 500.

Let us first see how the S&P 500 behaves at the 1270 level, the first support level.

Today's Stock Chart

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