On Tuesday the market bounced. The S&P 500 managed to rise 1.71%. As far as oversold, short-covering rallies it didn’t seem particularly viscous. Below is a comparison of how it fared against the first day bounce the other 4 times the T2116 rose to 58.1% or above:

Today doesn’t even come close to those. It’s less than half the “worst” ones.

Does it matter?

Back in March, I posted a study that looked at explosions of 3.5% or more following a 100-day low. The results were quite impressive. Tonight I broke down the results by percentage gained on the fist up day. I looked at 3 periods – 5, 10, and 15 days out. Results below:

For every time period, results were substantially better if the move was 3% or better. Below 3% and the results were sketchy. There appears to be a slight upside edge 5 days out, and slight downside edges 10 and 15 days out.

I also looked at today’s volume and breadth statistics and found nothing substantial. The market was certainly oversold enough that it could put in a rally over the next few days and weeks, but today’s start was not impressive.