GDX: Short term traders should watch for intra-day resistance around the $43.00, and $43.50 levels. Take note, the GDX is still trading below the important daily chart 50, and 200 moving averages, this technical position puts the important ETF in a weak technical position. All of the leading gold mining stocks are holding up very well on an intra-day basis. Most of the daily charts of the gold mining stocks are still very vulnerable to declines after this short term bounce concludes.    

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) is the most important financial stock that any trader can follow at this time. This stock has lead the major market indexes higher throughout the first three months of 2012 and now the same stock is leading the markets lower. JPM stock has come under some major scrutiny after reporting a $ 2 billion trading loss in its investment unit.