US stock futures point to a slightly lower open Wednesday but are paring losses as we edge closer to the open. Markets had a powerful day yesterday, finally getting the powerful oversold bounce that could put us into a new fledgling uptrend. When bearish sentiment reaches such extreme levels, and strong bounce is inevitable. That is what we saw yesterday, as dip buying then became short covering and made moves larger than usual. These types of days don’t always amount to powerful bull market moves, but none have been started without one.

Last time we got a decent bounce, on June 1st, it was all washed away with one huge bearish engulfing day. If that scenario tries to play out again, that is why traders use retracement rules to measure the validity of a move. If the Bulls have any manhood left, this market should hold 1280-1284 today and find some buyers that missed yesterday’s bullish action. A close below 1274-1277 will negate this set up. Besides, rallies that start in June don’t have high percentage of success like they have from August or September.

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Digestion would be a good outcome for bulls, as it would allow more confident investors to get a more calculated entry for the potential resumption of the uptrend. It seems unlikely that the market will run away from us, and I expect to get some choppy type action that we saw last Summer. Greece did get through the no confidence vote, but now embattled Prime Minister George Papandreouwe will need to try to push through a round of deeply unpopular round of austerity measures.

Today the Fed meets and Bernanke’s language, as always, will be key. Then we have QE2 ending June 30th. We have the Debt ceiling vote in August. We have the monthly jobs report around that time as well, along with the usual suspects of economic numbers. There is now some more chatter about Portugal and Ireland. The bottom line is, yes, yesterday’s big move makes everyone feel a little bit better about things, but in reality we will face a murderer’s row of major issues.

We have been talking about this oversold bounce for almost a week, identifying relatively strong stocks that you could potentially look to buy when the market firmed up. Many of those stocks had powerful moves yesterday.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) hadn’t shown much relative strength, but is a market stock that usually gets a big lift when the market bounces. See if AAPL can get back above its 200-day MA or if that area now serves as resistance. Long-term this is still one of the best stocks out there.
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) was our number 1 candidate for a strong bounce, and it made strong move yesterday out of a beautiful descending channel. $192 is a spot it needs to hold from yesterday if this stock is going to keep the strong upside momentum going.
The best clouds in play right now, salesforce.com inc. (NYSE:CRM) and VMWare, Inc. (NYSE:VMW) had very nice moves, and should have more upside if the market follows-through.

The stronger of the Chinese Internets got a big lift yesterday as shorts were squeezed.
Baidu.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU) had a powerful move above the technical buy price yesterday of $121-122. This should now hold $124.50-125.50 to keep bullish complexion in place.
SINA Corporation (NASDAQ:SINA) was even more powerful. To maintain bullish composure, this should now hold $86.50-87.50.

I expect today to be a quiet day as traders wait for word from the Fed, and digestion would be healthy. Any deep retracement would be further evidence that this market now suffers from a crisis of confidence.

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