The Junior market is down 4.8% for 2019 but the chart is flashing some positives.
The Junior Market closed the first quarter of the year with a decline of 4.8 percent but technical indicators suggest that a major change is coming soon, with the early signals suggesting it could be to the upside.
The market index declined 20.30 points to 3,092.02 as the prices of 9 securities rose, 10 declined and 10 remained unchanged. At the close of trading, 29 securities changed hands, versus 28 Thursday.
Market activities, was more normal on Friday from Thursday swollen volume, with a 70 percent drop in the day’s volume, to 3,378,621 units for $15,299,931, compared to 11,336,686 units changing hands at $37,683,562 on Thursday.
Trading ended with an average of 116,504 units for an average of $527,584 in contrast to 404,882 units for an average of $1,345,842 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 195,942 shares valued at $777,498 compared to 200,568 shares valued at $792,051 on the previous 
day. In contrast, February closed with an average of 235,225 units valued at $679,790 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 6 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 6 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, Access Financial closed with a loss of 60 cents at $46, with 1,000 shares changing hands, AMG Packaging ended with a loss of 10 cents at $2.15, exchanging 2,150 stock units, Blue Power concluded trading with 5,618 units at $4.60, CAC 2000 finished at $12, with 8,000 shares trading. Cargo Handlers settled with a loss of $1.94 at $11.06, with 354,500 shares changing hand, Caribbean Cream ended trading with 2,000 shares, 1 cent higher at $5.55, Caribbean Flavours traded 10,000 stock units 5 cents higher at $17.10, Caribbean Producers rose 17 cents to close at $4.77, with an exchange of 36,500 units. Derrimon Trading ended with a loss of 9 cents at $2.65, with an exchange of 30,400 shares. Everything Fresh finished at $1.51, with 3,000 stock units changing hands, Elite Diagnostic settled at $3, trading 10,000 units, Express Catering ended trading 20,152 shares, with a loss of 20 cents at $7.60, FosRich Group closed at $4, with 20,000 shares changing hands. Fontana finished trading 199,144 shares, at $4.05, General Accident closed 49 cents higher at $4.50, with 9,200 stock units changing hands, GWest Corporation ended with a 
loss of 5 cents at $1.40, in exchanging 10,000 units, Honey Bun concluded trading of 324 shares with a loss of 1 cent to close at $4.24. iCreate added 1 cent to close at $1.01, with an exchange of 29,400 shares, Indies Pharma finished at $3.09, with 1,946,580 shares changing hands, Iron Rock settled 44 cents higher at $3.99, with an exchange of 750 shares, Jamaican Teas traded 1,800 units to close at $3.90. Jetcon Corporation finished trading 5,865 shares with a loss of 20 cents to close at $2.80. Knutsford Express closed 80 cents higher to $12.70, with 112,159 stock units changing hands, Lasco Distributors finished with a loss of 4 cents at $3.85, exchanging 55,627 units, Lasco Financial settled with a loss of 5 cents at $4.50, with an exchange 145,483 shares, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading 187,738 shares with a rise of 30 cents to $3.60. Main Event traded 1 cent higher at $5.51, with 4,700 shares, Paramount Trading closed at $2.30, with the trading of 160,106 units and tTech settled at $6, with 6,425 stock units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Lasco Manufacturing traded 10 million shares on Junior Market on Thursday, accounting for 89 percent of the day’s volume that saw 11,336,686 units changing hands at $37,683,562, compared to 6,366,628 units valued at $24,922,045, changing hands on Wednesday. 
shares, at $4.05. GWest Corporation ended 15 cents higher at $1.45, in trading 16,715 units, 
Trading picked up on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Monday, ending in an exchange of 3,646,013 shares valued at $12,828,763, compared to 2,437,146 units valued at $10,799,411 on Friday, 
units at $15.50. Jetcon Corporation traded 1,950 shares with a loss of 30 cents to close at $2.80, Knutsford Express concluded trading 15,643 stock units at $12.50, Lasco Distributors finished with a loss of 9 cents at $3.80, with an exchange of 14,485 units, Lasco Financial settled 5 cents higher at $4.50, with 3,139 shares changing hands. Lasco Manufacturing ended trading with 590,096 shares with a loss of 7 cents at $3.13, Medical Disposables finished trading with 50,000 stock units, at $6.60, Stationery and Office closed trading with 4,238 shares at $7.47 and tTech settled at $5.50, with 23,949 stock units changing hands. In the junior market preference segment, CAC 2000 9.5% closed 15 cents higher at $1.15, in trading 6,400 shares.
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange climbed sharply on Wednesday with 17,755,553 units valued at $89,888,819 crossing the exchange, compared to 2,988,737 units valued at $11,616,949 exchanged on Tuesday. 
compared to 128,493 shares valued at $502,830 on the previous day. In contrast, February closed with average of 235,225 units valued at $679,790 for each security traded.
with a loss of 40 cents at $7.50. FosRich Group traded 78,897 shares with a loss of 9 cents at $4.16, Fontana closed 6 cents higher at $4.06, with 522,903 shares changing hands, General Accident closed with a loss of 55 cents at $3.95, while switching ownership of 2,422,309 stock units, GWest Corporation ended at $1.75, trading just 647 units. ICreate fell 4 cents to close at 95 cents, in trading 36,885 shares, Indies Pharma finished with a loss of 5 cents at $3.11, with an exchange of 336,665 shares, Jamaican Teas traded 51,111 units, with a loss of 5 cents at $3.75, Jetcon Corporation finished trading 33 cents higher at $3.10, with 33,533 shares changing hand. Lasco Distributors finished with a loss of 6 cents at $3.70, with 1,318,768 units crossing the exchange, Lasco Financial settled at $4.40, trading 47,833 shares, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading 791,665 shares, with a loss of 10 cents at $3, Paramount Trading closed at $2.11, with an exchange of 2,000,000 units, SSL Venture Capital ended 4 cents higher at $1.70, with 16,350 shares changing hands and Stationery and Office concluded trading of 3,011,550 shares with a loss of 3 cents to end at $7.47.
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange ended trading on Friday with 26 securities changing hands, compared with 25 securities trading on Thursday and ending with the prices of 6 securities advancing, 13 declining and 6 remaining unchanged.
cents higher at $3.14, trading 36,886 shares, Iron Rock settled at $3.50, with an exchange of 27,500 shares, Jamaican Teas traded 58,475 units with a loss of 26 cents to end at $4.24. Jetcon Corporation finished trading 3,768 shares and rose 20 cents to $3.30, Lasco Distributors finished with a loss of 1 cent at $3.79, with 28,381 units changing hands, Lasco Financial settled with a loss of 20 cents at $4.40, with 4,261 shares crossing the trading platform. Lasco Manufacturing ended trading 54,369 shares, with a loss of 1 cent to close at $3.24, Main Event traded 3,080 shares with a loss of 10 cents to end at $5.40, Medical Disposables finished with a loss of 20 cents at $6.60, trading 8,700 stock units and tTech settled 70 cents higher at $6.20, with just 200 stock units trading. In the junior market preference segment, Derrimon Trading preference share ended at $2.10, with 76,382 stock units changing hands.
Falling stocks dominated the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Wednesday with the Index diving 51.63 points to close at 3,127.51 as the prices of 6 securities rose, 12 fell and 9 remained unchanged. 
Indies Pharma finished trading of 183,190 shares with a loss of 7 cents at $2.76, Jamaican Teas traded 17,119 units at $4, Jetcon Corporation finished trading 15 cents higher at $3.15, with 98,264 shares traded, KLE Group ended with a loss of 10 cents at $3.10, exchanging 5,918 shares. Knutsford Express concluded trading of 3,250 stock units with a loss of 3 cents at $12.87, Lasco Distributors finished with a loss of 5 cents at $3.75, with an exchange of 24,883 units, Lasco Financial settled with a loss of 10 cents at $4.50, trading 138,706 shares. Lasco Manufacturing ended trading of 9,370 shares at $3.25, Main Event exchanged 13,250 shares, at $5.60, Medical Disposables finished trading 40 cents higher at $7, with 140,000 stock units changing hands, SSL Venture Capital closed at $1.95, with an exchange of 35,000 shares and Stationery and Office concluded trading with 81,850 shares after rising 17 cents to $8.50.
Iron Rock settled with a loss of 5 cents at $3.50, with 39,030 shares changing hands, Jamaican Teas traded 4,523,710 shares, but lost 10 cents to close at $3.85, Jetcon Corporation finished trading 4,015 shares, at $3, Knutsford Express concluded trading with a loss of 10 cents at $12.90, with 10,948 stock units passing through the market. Lasco Distributors finished 5 cents higher at $3.80, in exchanging 33,333 units, Lasco Financial settled at $4.80, trading 4,000 shares, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading with 3,162 shares at $3.27, Main Event traded 80 cents higher at $5.80, with 6,657 shares crossing the stock exchange platform. Medical Disposables jumped 99 cents and finished trading 65,774 stock units at $6.49, SSL Venture Capital concluded trading of 4,500 shares, at $1.95, Stationery and Office finished 15 cents higher at $8.25, in exchanging 9,551 shares and tTech ended trading of 138 units with a loss of 39 cents to $5.50.
of 54 cents at $2.61, Knutsford Express exchanged 30,553 stock units after rising $2.10 to close at $13. Lasco Distributors finished 5 cents higher at $3.75, trading 86,259 units, Lasco Financial settled with a loss of 1 cent at $4.79, with 31,401 shares changing hands, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading with 500,787 shares after closing 7 cents higher at $3.27. Main Event traded 13,357 shares with a loss of 10 cents to end at $5.70. Medical Disposables lost 35 cents to close at $5.40, with 147,678 stock units passing through the market, Paramount Trading closed with a loss of 32 cents at $2.08, after 90,800 units traded. SSL Venture Capital ended with a loss of 20 cents at $1.70, with 23,937 shares, Stationery and Office concluded trading of 40,000 shares at $8.50 and tTech settled with a loss of 86 cents at $5.89, in exchanging 10,682 stock units.
Junior market trading ended with the Index gaining 27.35 points to close at 3,101.31 on Wednesday with the prices of 13 securities advancing, 9 declining and 5 remaining unchanged.
201,036 shares and rose 14 cents higher to $3.99, Indies Pharma finished 10 cents higher at $2.80, in exchanging 61,592 shares. ISP Finance ended trading with 5,000 stock units and climbed $2 to $13, Jamaican Teas traded 81,678 units for 28 cents more at $4, Jetcon Corporation finished trading 446,571 shares, adding 15 cents to end at $3.15, Knutsford Express lost $1.60 cents to close at $10.90, with 4,100 stock units changing hands. Lasco Distributors finished with a loss of 29 cents at $3.70, with 210,378 units trading, Lasco Financial settled 24 cents higher at $4.80, with 82,082 shares crossing through the exchange, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading with 101,576 shares, and rose 4 cents to end at $3.20, Medical Disposables finished trading 1,381 stock units and gained 25 cents to end at $5.75. SSL Venture Capital ended with a loss of 5 cents at $1.90, trading 9,803 shares and Stationery and Office concluded trading 30 cents higher at $8.50, with 2,689 shares changing hands.
Lasco Distributors lost 29 cents at $3.70, with 18,809 units passing through the market, Lasco Financial settled 15 cents higher at $4.50, as investors swapped 152,349 shares. Lasco Manufacturing ended trading of 24,058 shares, with a loss of 3 cents at $3.16, Main Event traded 3,600 shares and climbed 31 cents higher to $5.81, Paramount Trading closed at $2.40, while exchanging 52,155 units, SSL Venture Capital ended with a loss of 25 cents in closing at $1.70, trading 54,880 shares. Stationery and Office concluded trading of 28,176 and rose 10 cents to close at $8.50 and tTech settled 91 cents higher at $6.75, with 30,000 stock units changing hands but the stock was on offer at $6.20 at the close. In the junior market preference segment, CAC 2000 preference share closed at $1, with 1,000 shares trading.