After low volume and tight trading the first three days of this week, buyers showed up Thursday and Friday and the S&P 500 saw some decent gains. Big cap technology companies seemed to be the driving force of the gap up at Friday’s open which becomes more apparent when comparing big cap indices to theRead… Read more »

Stocks were up this week and all of the TSP stock funds were up more than 3%. Monday’s open for the S&P 500 gapped up from last Friday’s closing price of 1951.36, which I couldn’t fit on the weekly chart below, leaving an open gap between the weeks. Momentum was on the bulls side forRead… Read more »

The bears put the pressure on early this week but may have left the market oversold allowing buyers an opportunity to get a piece of undervalued stocks. The bulls and the bears battled back and forth forth over next couple of days. A disappointing jobs report had an interesting effect on Friday, initially it pushedRead… Read more »