S&P 500 500 Technical Forecast Weekly Starting Sep 19, 2011 - Option Strip or Short and hedge

Sep 16, 2011 - S&P 500 closed today at 1216.01 which is about 62 points up compared to last week close of 1154.23 on Sep 09, 2011. S&P 500 experienced a swing of about 84 points between 1136.07 and 1220.06 in the last week.

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Last Week Analysis - Euro Zone fear and bear market rally

S&P 500 experienced a swing of about 84 points between 1136.07 and 1220.06 in the last week. Euro Zone fear continued over the last weekend and triggered sell of monday. Then market recovered due short covering rally in the later week.

Last Week Low: 1136.07
Last Week High: 1220.06

If you are a long term conservative investors, I have been suggesting to go long on US treasuries in the past couple of weeks. Now it is the time to liquidate all of your long position US treasuriesand consider shorting US Treasuries gradually in the coming weeks with a ladder of order.

The collapse in US Treasury prices are inevitable since even with QE3, Fed will start buying only when the treasury prices are low and front running the Fed is not a good strategy in investment.

You can cover some of your short position you have accumulated so far. Currently dollar is the only safe heaven for long term conservative investors.

For Speculators and Intraday Players - Options Strip or short the market with long call option heding

The debt talks, earning season and on going crisis from Euro Zone increased the volatility. Still fundamentally the US market is very week due to unemployment and slumping house prices along with US debt downgrade. Always fundamental wins in the long run.

Only if you are day trader, you can have the two following options:

1. Buy 2X times of put options and 1X time of call option - known as option strip.

2. Short stocks with Stop Loss orders or with long call option - known as hedging.

Technical Indicators

10 Days EMA: 1190.07
21 Days EMA: 1190.56
50 Days EMA: 1217.63
200 Days EMA: 1251.19

Next Resistance Levels:

strong resistance level at: 1217 - 1251 set by 50 days and 200 days EMA. Market may retest this level to search for a direction.

strong resistance level at: 1251.19 set by 200 days EMA
strong resistance level at: 1386.95 set on Mar 16, 2007
strong resistance level at: 1433.06 set on Aug 03, 2007
strong resistance level at: 1440.70 set on Nov 23, 2007
strong resistance level at: 1453.55 set on Sep 07, 2007
strong resistance level at: 1,530.23 set on May 30, 2007 (first closing high after dot com bubble)
strong resistance level at: 1,552.87 set on Mar 24, 2000 (all time high during dot com bubble)
strong resistance level at: 1,565.15 set on Oct 09, 2007 (all time high during housing buble before sub prime crisis)

Next Support Levels:

strong support level at 1189.40 set on Nov 26, 2010
minor support level at 1064.59 set on Aug 27, 2010
strong support level at 1022.58 set on Jul 02, 2010
strong support level at 1036.18 set on Oct 30, 2009
strong support level at 946.21 set on Jun 12, 2009
strong support level at 827.37 set on Sep 27, 2002
strong support level at 683.38 set on Mar 06, 2009
strong support level at 638.73 set on Jul 19, 1996 - Might see this number again when completing double dip bottom