{"id":12940,"date":"2011-03-31T12:37:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T16:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=12940"},"modified":"2011-03-31T12:37:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T16:37:19","slug":"important-support-and-resistance-points-for-sp-500-nasdaq-and-russell-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/31\/important-support-and-resistance-points-for-sp-500-nasdaq-and-russell-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Support and Resistance Points for S&#038;P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;make it or break it&#8221; points for major indicies can provide vital information for investors looking to get buy, sell or short a market. More importantly, it can help to see what the trend is showing and this often will be the direction for many stocks.<\/p>\n<p>It has been said that something like 80% of individual issues follow the trend of the <!--more-->overall markets. More recently, that percentage will probably be higher as the use of ETFs and futures contracts have become more popular.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the latest update of these trends.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/14\/a-change-in-trend-sp-500-levels-to-watch\/\"> <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/14\/a-change-in-trend-sp-500-levels-to-watch\/\">HERE<\/a> <\/strong>is the same chart \u00a0 of the S&amp;P 500 from 3\/14\/2011.<\/p>\n<p>** Notice that the S&amp;P 500 and the NASDAQ have not confirmed the longer term breakout&#8230;.<\/p>\n[ipaper id=52001118]\n[ipaper id=52001088]\n[ipaper id=52001177]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;make it or break it&#8221; points for major indicies can provide vital information for investors looking to get buy, sell or short a market. More importantly, it can help to see what the trend is showing and this often will be the direction for many stocks. It has been said that something like 80% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[483],"class_list":["post-12940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets","tag-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}