Technical stuff

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$SPX&p=D&yr=1&mn=0&dy=0&id=p64823856337&a=376488190 It is gratifyig to have intelligent and alert readers.  One of whom looked at the above chart and said, isn't this a broadending pattern?   Broadening patterns have large…

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Head fake…?…

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$SPX&p=D&yr=0&mn=6&dy=0&id=p83257770514&a=266398464 We have often remarked on the tendency of the market to sell off before starting an advance -- like a quarterback throwing a head fake at defensive backs to…

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Breakout day.

  http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=QQQ&p=D&yr=1&mn=0&dy=0&id=p71514206946&a=350515648 Obviously we are having a breakout day with the SPX up -- at one point -- 17 points.  The Dow up about 150.  We joined the buying panic…

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Gold, silver, Miners and how to sit still

  http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=GLD&p=D&yr=0&mn=9&dy=0&id=p79177025382&a=255869372 Screaming signals.  Gold gaps and a power bar.  Actually we don't think there is an explanation for this action.  Peripatetic pundits natter on about inflation, Iraq, tea party…

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