Today’s headline on Reuters: “U.S. consumer spending rose solidly in December as demand for goods and services increased, but the gain came at the expense of savings, which dropped to a 10-year low in a troubling sign for future consumption and economic growth.”
That’s the American way for you. Spend more, save less, go into debt. 
Even the family’s cockatoo gets a day out to share some roasted corn, raising consumption, hence supply and demand.
About 1/3 of families in the bottom 50% of earners own stocks.
Approximately 54% of Americans are invested. That’s down 11% since the Great Recession.
The richest 10% of Americans own 84% of all stocks.
That’s the backdrop.
How does that fundamental statistic align with my recent focus–a breaking of and a closing price below the first line of support?
To review, we have been watching S1 (a floor trader pivot)-or the first support line on 30-minute bar charts.
Over the weekend, to narrow down the focus, we are watching the S&P 500 ETF SPY .
Today, SPY has not closed under S1 for the 21 trading days in January.
Today, S1 in SPY came in at 284.83. Today’s low in SPY 284.50. Once again it broke S1 intraday, only to close right on it by end of day.
Technically, the closing price is 284.64, but it ticked up after hours to settle on S1. Let’s call S1 an area and look to see what happens tomorrow.
Apparently, we are not the only ones watching S1.
Uncanny how a simple pivot point is keeping us from:
The second layer we are watching to break or to hold are the Transportation (IYT) and Semiconductors (SMH) sectors.
Transportation remains the most vulnerable. Although IYT remained green throughout the day, it could not close over R1-or the antidote to breaking S1.
That means, tomorrow a new break of S1 can have a negative impact.
