May 19, 2009: The materials sector is testing its resistance area again. Prices are above the 200-day moving average. Will the sector break out of resistance?

May 19, 2009: There is euphoria in India over the decisive elections and the stock markets jumped nearly 17% in response. So we looked at IFN, an exchange traded fund, for investing in India.

May 18, 2009: First State Bank, a dollar stock, rallied recently and went back to the base of the rally. Is this support? Does the stock have an upside potential or will it continue to languish in the one dollar range?

May 14, 2009:The markets retreated on May 7 after the strongest indices--the Russell 2000 and NASDAQ 100--hit resistance. They also key broke trend lines.

May 12, 2009: The home builders' exchange traded fund, XHB, broke an upwardly sloping trend line last week indicating that the uptrend in the sector may be reversing. The prices of  XHB is near resistance.

May 5, 2009: The S&P 500 and the Russell 2000 are nearing key resistance areas both in time and price. These resistance levels must be cleared for markets to go higher.