What a day.  Let’s take the DIA (Dow Jones ETF) trading structure on the 5-minute and 30-minute charts to see what insights we might can learn from any pattern recognition examples that might emerge on such a historic day.
DIA 5-min chart:

The first pattern that jumps off the chart at you is what I call the […]

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With the US Equity market breaking to fresh 2008 lows, challenging and breaking support levels formed in 2002, let’s take a look at how the actual bottoming process formed in the 2000 - 2003 bear market.
S&P 500 Bear Market from 2000 to 2003 (Weekly):

The bull market peak occurred at 1,530 just before October 2000 before […]

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Now that today’s close is firmly in place, we have a potential game-changer in terms of the technical structure.  The monthly chart also shows a major bearish development  Let’s look at the current S&P 500 chart closely to see what this means.
S&P 500 Daily:

Not a whole lot has changed on the daily structure, provided you […]

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As we near the halfway point in Wednesday’s trading, let’s look at the current Dow Jones Index structure on the daily chart to assess the current technical picture.
Dow Jones Daily:

The 8,100 level has held key support five times since October with only two instances of price ‘nipping’ beneath that level.  Mid-October brought us the 2008 […]

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In April, we reported on the robust adoption of Bank of America’s online personal finance manager, My Portfolio (see note 1), used by 10% of the bank’s 25 million online bankers. The results are especially impressive given that it’s a full-featured module accessible via online banking, but not particularly well integrated.
In comparison, Wells Fargo […]

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Sears Holdings (SHLD) is a large retail stock I tend to follow from time to time, but today I noticed just how far the stock has fallen this year and since 2007.  Let’s take a look at the devastation long-term SHLD investors have endured recently.
SHLD Weekly Chart:

Price reached an all-time high at $190 in April, […]

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As we head into the ‘lunch’ period, I wanted to show a fascinating price structure occurrence that led to a couple of high-probability, low risk trading opportunies this morning.  It includes a Daily R1 Pivot Point, a negative momentum Divergence, and a possible complete Elliott Wave minor count.  Let’s see them in action.
DIA 5-min chart:

The […]

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CNN News just reported that current Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang will be stepping down and his replacement will be named soon.  Let’s review this news and look at the current and past charts of Yahoo stock.
From the CNN article, Yang stated, “”I will continue to focus on global strategy and to do everything I can […]

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It’s quite rare to get a reading in the ADX (Average Directional Index) of less than 10, but the DIA 5-minute chart is currently showing compression such that the ADX value is 8.77.  Let’s look at this and see what it might mean.
DIA 5-min chart:

In StockCharts, the ADX actually displays the + and - DMI […]

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What a better way to start your week than browsing around the news and blogosphere, courtesy NewsFlashr? Here, I wanted to highlight selected blog or news posts that you may find interesting that might help you in the upcoming week.
The Big Picture tries “DECONSTRUCTING THE FINANCIAL CRISIS (so far)” which is a rough timeline […]

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