{"id":436294,"date":"2026-08-14T23:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/the-broader-sp-and-nasdaq-indices-are-trading-near-new-lows-what-are-the-technicals-telling-traders-436294\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T23:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:40:20","slug":"the-broader-sp-and-nasdaq-indices-are-trading-near-new-lows-what-are-the-technicals-telling-traders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/the-broader-sp-and-nasdaq-indices-are-trading-near-new-lows-what-are-the-technicals-telling-traders-436294\/","title":{"rendered":"The broader S&amp;P and Nasdaq indices are trading near new lows. What are the technicals telling traders?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\">The major US stock indices are trading lower on the day, taking some of the shine off what had been a technically positive week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>S&amp;P index: down -0.23% on the day, but still holding onto a 0.30% gain for the week.\n<\/li>\n<li>NASDAQ index: down -0.52% today and now -0.09% for the week.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the S&amp;P, the index stretched to a new record high this week, but buyers have been unable to generate additional upside momentum in trading today.<\/p>\n<p>The NASDAQ also reached an important technical milestone this week, extending above a key swing area that tops out at 26,788.62. However, that breakout has also failed to attract sustained follow-through buying, with the index moving back to the downside today.<\/p>\n<p>Those failures to extend higher put more focus on the technical levels heading into the remainder of today&#8217;s session and into next week.<\/p>\n<p>In the video above, I take a closer look at the technical picture for both the S&amp;P and NASDAQ. Where is the key resistance? What are the next downside targets? And perhaps most importantly, where are the risk-defining levels that will tell traders whether buyers can regain control or whether sellers are starting to make a stronger play?<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The major US stock indices are trading lower on the day, taking some of the shine off what had been a technically positive week. S&amp;P index: down -0.23% on the day, but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}