The NASDAQ Composite Index has traded down to a key technical inflection point. Support for the Composite resides in an area between the 15,000 and the 14,750 levels. On the lower end of the zone is the 40 week (~200 day) moving average, and the upper bound is reinforced by the intersection of two important… Read More »
Take a look at the Snap weekly chart. A clearly defined bull flag has formed that suggests significantly higher prices. In July there was a spike up in price, followed by two months of sideways consolidation. The “spike” is the flagpole of the pattern and the range-bound movement between ~$80 and ~70 is the flag.… Read More »
Last week could have been a transitional period for the major market averages. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rolled over and sliced through its 50 day moving average, accelerating lower in Friday’s session. The decline in the S&P 500 Index began on Tuesday and picked up speed as the week progressed closing below its 50… Read More »
What is an eveningstar pattern and what does it mean when there are two eveningstar patterns on a chart. An eveningstar is defined by Investopedia as: The evening star pattern is considered a very strong indicator of future price declines. Its pattern forms over a period of three days: 1. The first day consists of… Read More »
The month of November was been a positive one for the broader market, but it was also one that sent a number of mixed signals. The first week saw a sharp jump in the indices followed by a gap even higher to start the second week. But that gap-up day turned decidedly negative by the… Read More »
Back on November 9th a large wick shooting star candle formed on the Dow Jones Industrial Average daily chart and the $&P 500 Index chart. A large dark engulfing candle formed on the NASDAQ Composite daily chart. These candles suggested a broader market pullback was in order. There was a brief decline, but not the… Read More »
The broad market indices seemed to have absorbed and then quickly discounted (to some degree) today’s positive Covid-19 vaccination news. Within the first hour of trading the initial rally in the indices began to fade. They wound up finishing the session near their lows. The Dow was still up nearly 3% and the S&P 500… Read More »
Poor start to trading this week. The talking heads are out with a number of fundamental reasons for this morning’s downturn, that they didn’t see coming on Friday. What concerns technical analysts is not so much cause but effect. Simply, how information or misinformation plays out on the charts. The pictographs are where the truth… Read More »
At noon on Wednesday I Tweeted out “am I the first to call double top?” I attached this weekly chart of the NASDAQ Composite chart. The Tweet was tongue-in-cheek but as it turned out two hours later in another tweet, I noted a possible head and shoulders pattern forming on the daily NASDAQ chart. It… Read More »
Last month a head and shoulders pattern formed on the Dow Jones Industrial daily chart. The neckline of the pattern around the 27500 level was intersecting with the rising 50 day moving average. A break through those support levels projected a return to the 2600 area and had the potential for a much deeper loss.… Read More »