Jan 25 - Monday - Stats

DJIA 10,196.86 DJT 4025.38 DJU 386.14

Market Internal:
NYSE-1768 advancers and 1299 decliners. The highs didn't pick up steam with 77 and new lows held steady at 6. 1,051,436,808 shares traded hands. 615,818,100 were marked up and 423,810,758 were marked down. Top 100 actively traded shares-#1, Citigroup at 497,132,591. #5, JP Morgan, 56,573,901. #10, Sprint at 37,139,477. #50, Genworth Financial, 13,125,702. #100, CVS Pharmacy at 7,404,019. Notes-Market was light. Not much to work with. Sprint may finally be setting up for a move north.

NASDAQ-1296 advancers and an abyssmal 1343 decliners. The same with 34 highs and 11 lows. I am confused because the internal stats for the previous day were good. 2,134,358,319 traded hands. 1,330,552,105 on the upside and 786,909,756 on the downside. Top 100 shares traded-#1, Intel, 173,764,600. #5, Applied Material, 39,766,200. #10, Dell?, that big cap hasn't show up for awhile with 26,820,334. #50, Jet Blue, 8,320,638. #100, AEZS, not sure what they do, 4,051,486. Notes-Biotechs where are they? Not sure today.

Diary-I stood frozen by the computer wanting to liquidate my positions on a hunch. But I spent too much time building a portfolio. At the end of the day, I am pleased. The same goes with reading the market and not predicting. The future is a gamble so we are playing odds and ones that are vastly in our favor.