Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Nastiness under the surface

Nearly all the stocks on my watchlist were down 3% or more today despite the overall market's modest decline. I don't know if that is a bad sign or a good one (do I ever?). My portfolio lost almost 1 percent today. I'm not digging this.

The Zweig RS 5 portfolio was down another 1.71% today.

We'll see if tomorrow brings some of the end-of-the-quarter window dressing that everyone's talking about.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

sc,

My list also went down by more than 3% on average too (our lists are similar, I'm guessing). I think it was due to profit taking in stocks that have been showing leadership.

My guess it that (unless the market is going to tank) these leaders are going through a pullback and will bounce of the 20-day or so EMA (except maybe the oil stocks since everyone is saying oil prices will collapse).

Andy