Well, folks, it finally happened. That triad of drawn objects that represented resistance for silver (by way of SLV) has been shunted aside. This will do nothing but helpful the bullish cause of precious metals. This is big news.
Silver’s Salvation
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A Killing Joke
I was asked an interesting question yesterday in our monthly free public Chart Chat at theartofchart.net, and I’d like to talk a bit about that before I start looking at markets today. The question was whether, given that market prices reflect everything that is currently known at the moment about that market, then how can that price be mistaken? My reply was that if that was truly the case then the price of tulips in January 1637 (just before that bubble burst) would have been equally justifiable and that, further, if that was really true there would be no speculative bubbles, which clearly there are on a regular basis.
Something I didn’t add, and should have, is that while statements like this are often thought of as economic rules or even laws, what they are in truth is just working assumptions that contain enough truth that economic models can be built using them that will have some relevance in modelling the behavior of a market that is infinitely more complex than that model.
(more…)One Hard Diamond
I am a big fan of the Diamond pattern (whose description is here and which has examples stacked from Slopers here). I wanted to point out that, on the 4-hour chart for the Russell futures (/RTY) there is a quite clean one:
A break in either direction would, I believe, be quite significant. We’re close!
Testing The NDX Resistance Trendline
Just a reminder before I get started that we are running our July 4th sale at theartofchart.net at the moment and that will be running until the end of next week. For the duration of the sale annual memberships are available for the price of only eight months at the monthly rate rather than the usual ten and as ever with all our memberships, the membership rate will remain the same with no price rises for as long as the subscription is maintained. If you are interested then you can find the sale page here.On to the markets. I was writing last week about the Janus (Bull) Flag targets at retests of the June highs on SPX, NDX, RTY and INDU and I was noting that NDX would likely reach that target first (done) and would then likely retest a major resistance trendline just above there afterwards (retested) and that the upswing on equities might fail there (possibly happening). Here is that updated NDX weekly chart. NDX weekly chart:
(more…)Long Death
I know, I know. Some of you will say it’s just because of more testing. Whatever. Anyway, here are some charts.
