This is almost like science fiction: every single month of IEFA has flipped colors, month after month. Take a wild guess what November will be like!

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Below are a variety of monthly bar charts of important ETFs, with some thoughts in the caption area of each.

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(more…)Happy Halloween, everybody! Well, since I’m lighter now than I’ve been all year, the market gods have permitted the futures to stay red all night long. After the gap down on Sunday, it’s been grinding lower persistently.

If one is speculating on more downside for AMZN, time is of the essence.
Right now, two timeframes matter most: Monthly and Yearly.
Monthly closes Monday, yearly closes in two months; both right around the corner.
If you’re in Bear’s camp, nothing could be better than delivering a deadly blow at year’s end. Let’s look at what it will take to deliver the blow.
Amazon hasn’t lost a yearly candle since 2014. Nine years later, 2021 was a near miss, up only by a ting.
Not so, 2022: AMZN has been down every quarter since January.
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