Stock Market Blog -Nov 24th

The market closed at new all time highs again this week, with the DOW closing over 16,000 for the first time ever! Gold dropped again. We head into a shortened trading week for the Thanksgiving holiday, which marks another year for this non-stop market rally..


New all time highs:    AMZN, ABC, BIIB, CMCSA, CVS, CELG, CL, GILD, DIS, DAL, LMT, MMM, TWC, YUM, PG, UPS, and more...
All time lows:  ... 

Pops:   GMCR, LZB       Drops:  BBY, CPB, DLTR, GME, LOW, ROST
Next week:  Economic reports 

Earnings next week:   HPQ


Market Commentary

The rally continues... same comments as last week!   "Everyone has been expecting a correction, so maybe that's why we haven't seen one! Maybe next week -maybe not. For the trend traders, stick with the trend. For the contrarians, hang in there! Volatility is very low, so there are some potential Options opportunities in the VIX products, or in shorting the market indexes using Option spreads (SPY, SSO, IWM, etc).


5 year rally


This week's charts:
S&P 500 -all time high again!
10yr Interest Rates
Labor Force Participation Rate (10yr chart)

Commodities/Futures (charts):
Crude Oil was mostly unchanged, closing near $94.84 -holding under $100
Natural Gas was up, closing near $3.77
Gold dropped again, closing at $1244
The 30 year Bond dropped, closing near $131.90
The US Dollar was mostly unchanged, closing near 80.74

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