Wednesday Aug 23

 

SPX - We are well within the timing for a dcl, and the swing low on Tuesday gives a valid buy, with a stop under the low of Monday.

If we get the dcl in place here, will the General Markets now just recover and take off to new highs?

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Aug 22 – Upside Surprises

After a pretty solid reversal candle on Friday, the Precious metals sector gave us a little surprise to the upside on Monday. We'll discuss that and a few other things in this report...

 

SPX - 6 days ago I warned about buying the reversal in the General Market, because the 'timing' was not quite right and some of the internals did not look healthy.  The reversal on Monday is within the expected timing for a dcl, though some internals are still weak. This one may be the dcl if we get a swing low in place.

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Weekend Aug 20

I'm starting off the weekly report with 2 charts that I used in the comments section of a recent report. Then we will cover the markets and especially Oil & Precious metals.

 

These 2 charts were used last week simply to point out the phenomenon that often happens in the markets.  It is the round number phenomenon, where markets tend to find support & resistance at round numbers.

 

SPX -  Here you can see how traders temporarily sell at round number resistance or buy at round number support and this affects price action.

 

GOLD - And my point is that this can just be a temporary pause. A sideways move may begin and build energy for the next break of resistance. Gold was near 1300.

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