Weekly Picks- Buy:IYR,XLF Sell:DRYS,SRS,SKF,SMN,VXX
This week was mostly a reversal of calls made last week, the only new call is a Sell on DRYS.
When the week moves in a range (market Zig Zagged 30 points up and down) they are called False Signals because my system is a trending one.
Nobody has called me out on my calls but this is the first back to back week that signals have reversed in my blogging days so I thought I'd clear the air 
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I will be introducing a new Feature this week. A chart to accompany each call. The charts are 3 months and they show all signals that might have occurred during that time-frame.
Red Dots means SELL and Green dots signal BUY. Simple enough? Great Let's get started.
Here's a look at SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF Chart
(Click to Enlarge, Same goes for the rest of the charts)
Upgrades
IYR iShares Dow Jones US Real Estate (ETF)
Upgraded to BUY on Apr 21 at $52.23
XLF Financial Select Sector SPDR (ETF)
Upgraded to BUY on Apr 21 at $16.74
Downgrades
DRYS DryShips Inc.
downgraded to SELL on Apr 19 at $6.20
SRS ProShares UltraShort Real Estate (ETF)
downgraded to SELL on Apr 21 at $26.98
SKF ProShares UltraShort Financials (ETF)
downgraded to SELL on Apr 20 at $17.32
SMN ProShares UltraShort Basic Materls (ETF)
downgraded to SELL on Apr 23 at $32.37
VXX iPath S&P 500 VIX Short Term F
downgraded to SELL on Apr 20 at $18.27
Disclaimer:
I am only giving the latest signal for the stock mentioned. Use at your own risk and make sure to take the date into consideration. If you have been trading for a while you should have realized that relying solely on the strategies of others (think Analyst Opinions) will lead to failure so please only take the signals I provide just as another indicator in making your informed BUY or SELL decision. Now go Make some MONEY!
-K
Weekly Picks- Buy:SRS,SKF,SMN,VXX Sell:IYR,XLF
The Current Picks page has been updated. Have a look by clicking Current Picks here or up on the top of the page.
Below I will only mention the new signals that have occurred this week.
Upgrades
SRS ProShares UltraShort Real Estate (ETF)
upgraded to BUY on Apr 16 at $29.18 (SELL Apr 05 at $28.60)
SKF ProShares UltraShort Financials (ETF)
upgraded to BUY on Apr 16 at $18.11 (SELL Feb 16 at $24.17)
SMN ProShares UltraShort Basic Materls (ETF)
upgraded to BUY on Apr 16 at $34.01 (SELL Mar 29 at $34.95)
VXX iPath S&P 500 VIX Short Term F
upgraded to BUY on Apr 16 at $19.97 (SELL Feb 11 at $31.40)
Downgrades
IYR iShares Dow Jones US Real Estate (ETF)
downgraded to SELL on Apr 16 at $50.24 (BUY Apr 05 at $51.05)
XLF Financial Select Sector SPDR (ETF)
downgraded to SELL on Apr 16 at $16.36 (BUY Feb 16 at $14.34)
Notes:
URE and UYG are off my list after the splits because of charting issues.
Disclaimer:
I am only giving the latest signal for the stock mentioned. Use at your own risk and make sure to take the date into consideration. If you have been trading for a while you should have realized that relying solely on the strategies of others (think Analyst Opinions) will lead to failure so please only take the signals I provide just as another indicator in making your informed BUY or SELL decision. Now go Make some MONEY!
Have a good weekend.
-K
Nightly Recap 3-23-2010
Market Summary:
DOW +102.94 (10,888.83)
S&P +8.36 (1,174.17)
Nasdaq +19.84 (2,415.24)
Nightly News Links
US Economy:
Existing Home Sales fall further in February (The Mess That Greenspan Made)
The National Association of Realtors reported that sales of existing homes fell 0.6 percent in February after a drop of more than 7 percent in January and sales are now at their lowest level in eight months. It's probably best not to make too much of the winter data for existing home sales because it is a very slow time of the year but, the "Months of Supply" metric certainly looks to be going in the wrong direction right now.
What is the Homebuilders Index pricing in? (Investment Postcards)
David Rosenberg, chief economist and strategist of Gluskin Shedff & Associates, states that his regression analyses show the Homebuilders Index to be pricing in the following:
Housing starts: pricing in a level of 800-900k (versus 575k currently)
Existing home sales: pricing in a level of 5,500k (versus 5,050k)
NAHB Housing Market Index: pricing in a level of 35 versus 15 actual.
Is this the most expensive part of the US stock market?
US Debt Update: 6 Months To Revised Debt Ceiling Breach (Zero Hedge)
As a reminder, the debt limit is $14.3 trillion. We are $1.7 trillion away from the limit. At March's run-rate of about $300 billion per month, the debt ceiling will be breached by October 2010. If somehow the government manages to reduce the monthly issuance to "just" $200 billion, we have eight and a half months until breach, or January 2011.
World Economy:
Spain to join Portugal in issuing Dollar-denominated Bond (Zero Hedge)
Yet more countries are anticipating the Fed finally killing the dollar sooner or later, as Spain now joins Portugal in issuing dollar-denominated bonds. If Europe's most insolvent countries are getting on board of the asset side of the Fed's balance sheet, it can only mean one thing: the odds for the winner of the currency race to the bottom are squarely in favor of the US currency. (K remark: I really see this as a contrary indicator being that there is an imbalance in those countries who are betting on a collapse of the dollar.)
Germany Sets tough terms for EU help for Greece (Reuters)
ermany signaled for the first time on Tuesday that it may accept European financial aid for Greece as a last resort, but only if the IMF is involved and euro zone partners accept tougher budget discipline rules. "The condition for action, as a last resort, is that Greece's financing on the capital markets is exhausted," the official said."Furthermore, it would be necessary for the International Monetary Fund to provide a substantial contribution," he said, stressing there will be no decision on actual aid at the summit.
Interesting Reads:
Jim Rogers Starts Some Short Positions (Market Folly)
Potentially the most notable bit of his conversation was when he said, "I had no shorts for about 15 months so I started putting out some shorts recently. But the fact that I've been putting out shorts means the stock market won't pull back." So, it's interesting to see Rogers fight the current trend. In his mind, it's the right play, but he knows he's going to potentially feel some pain first.
Morning Humor- American And Greek Capitalism Explained (Video) (Zero Hedge)
Explaining US economics (with an emphasis on generally accepted criminal accounting practices).
Have a Good Night
-K
Nightly Recap 3-22-2010
Market Summary:
DOW +43.91 (10,785.89)
S&P +5.91 (1,165.81)
Nasdaq +20.99 (2,395.40)
Nightly News Links
US Economy:
Chicago Fed National Activity Declines in February (Econompic)
The 85 economic indicators that comprise the Chicago Fed's index are drawn from four categories: production and income; employment, unemployment and hours; personal consumption and housing; and sales, orders and inventories. The three month average fell to -0.64 in February from -0.04 in January.
Tomorrow, Tim Geithner Urges End to Fannie and Freddie ‘Ambiguity’ (Bloomberg)
Tim Geithner is set to deliver unwelcome to news to those who play in the public Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) casino. Private gains can no longer be supported by the umbrella of public protection, capital standards must be higher and excessive risk-taking must be appropriately restrained,” Geithner said in testimony prepared for the House Financial Services Committee that was obtained today by Bloomberg News. The hearing is scheduled for tomorrow at 10 a.m. in Washington.
The Pressure on Malls: More Store Closings (Calculated Risk)
"Our outlook for retail properties as a whole is bleak ... we do not foresee a recovery in the retail sector until late 2012 at the earliest." Over the next three fiscal years, 25 percent of our store leases will reach maturity ... E-commerce is 30 percent of our corporate revenue and it’s very profitable ... even in this environment. The Internet and e-commerce have become the focus on our capital investment."
World Economy:
Global Productivity and Unemployment (Econompic)
Producing more by working less is the key to rising living standards, but in the short term there is a tension between efficiency and jobs. America and Europe have managed this trade-off rather differently. America has gone on a diet: it has squeezed extra output from a smaller workforce and suffered a big rise in unemployment as a consequence. Europe, meanwhile, is hoping to burn off the calories in the future. It has opted to contain job losses at the cost of lower productivity.
The Beginning of the End of the Eurozone As We Know It? (Naked Capitalism)
The widely-extolled idea, that the EU would find a way to muddle through the Greece crisis, looks very much in doubt. The pressure has not simply put the rescue of Greece into disarray, but appears to have led to some positions being taken that, if they hold, look likely to lead to the partial dissolution of the monetary union. This development would have far-reaching ramifications which are far from well understood, to put it mildly.
Interesting Reads:
Dear Evil Speculators (The Reformed Broker)
Dear Evil Speculators,As part of our ongoing program designed to render the US stock market completely dysfunctional, we have added an additional tax to be applied toward your investment income as part of the wildly popular Health Care Bill that we recently finagled through into law: * Individuals earning more than $200,000 a year, or couples earning $250,000 or more, would be hit with a 3.8% surcharge on investment income to help pay for the bill.You see, we are fully aware that in just the past decade, you have been slammed twice - 2000-2002 and 2007-2009 - with two of the most brutal bear markets in history - but we just don't care.
Health Care Expenses vs. Life Expectancy (The Big Picture)
A very insightful chart comparing Countries using Life expectancy and Health care spending.
Hedge Fund Ebullio Capital: Down 86.25% In One Month (Market Folly)
By now, many of you may have already heard the startling tale of Lars Steffensen's hedge fund Ebullio Capital Management. For the month of February 2010, they were down a whopping 86.25%. That brought their year to date total return to -95.83%. Immediately, questions swirl in one's head such as 'How did this happen? What kind of risk management did they have in place? How will they recover?' Remarkably, their investor letter had quite a calm tone to it.
Have a Good Night
-K
TED Target reached: Increasing short positions.
Here we go again.
On September 28 I stated the following:
The TED Spread which measures the general risk in the economy has been rising the last couple of weeks. today alone it rose 5.42% which means interbank loans are now riskier. This is still not significant enough and I would like to see another 33% increase in the TED before I really put a lot of my sidelined money on the short side.
On the 28th TED was at around 0.195 so a 33% move would put the TED at around 0.26 and today TED closed at 0.262 which satisfies my reasoning for going short.
On October 27th TED was in an Ascending Channel and also stated that a higher TED spread would mean that a major market correction is underway as banks are raising loan rates between eachother. Rising rates means there will be some major trouble in at least the financial sector which allocates 15% of the S&P Index.
Here is the latest Chart of the TED showing the channel that has been broken. (Click To Enlarge)
Another Blogger has picked up on the TED and here is Daneric's TED Chart.
Finally keep in mind that the current TED is still far below the average TED which is at around 0.50 (50 basis points). We're halfway there and its good to catch onto this risk indicator before CNBC does.
I will add shorts via options and inverse ETF's very soon but always use my opinions as a viewpoint and not investment advice. Everyone has different risk tolerances.
Happy Trading, K
8-20-2009.. another repeat of 7-13-2009 ?
If you have been following my current picks page you might have noticed that most of the symbols received buy signals on 7-13-2009 which is when the March rally was coming to a correction but then bounced. Will we have another case of this with 8-20-2009?
I was hoping we wouldn't that is why I posted those charts yesterday thinking we had topped. Well my automated strategy was saying otherwise and I completely Ignored it.
Normally I would just update the current picks page but this time around I have decided to make a blog post.
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Market Indices and other important Quotes
(Note: I understand you can’t purchase an index so bear with me these are just signals)
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Symbol |
Buy Date |
Sell Date |
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$SPX |
8-20-2009 |
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$INDU |
8-20-2009 |
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$COMPX |
8-20-2009 |
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QQQQ |
8-20-2009 |
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IWM |
8-20-2009 |
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SPY |
8-20-2009 |
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The Rest of the Symbols (More will be added per request)
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Symbol |
Buy Date |
Sell Date |
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IYR |
8-21-2009 |
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AAPL |
8-20-2009 |
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DRYS |
8-14-2009 |
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SDS |
8-20-2009 |
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SRS |
8-20-2009 |
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SSO |
8-20-2009 |
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SKF |
8-20-2009 |
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UYG |
8-20-2009 |
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URE |
8-21-2009 |
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JNK |
8-21-2009 |
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HYG |
8-7-2009 |
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REW |
8-20-2009 |
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QID |
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8-20-2009 |
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QLD |
8-20-2009 |
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XLF |
8-20-2009 |
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DIG |
8-20-2009 |
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DUG |
8-20-2009 |
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SMN |
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8-20-2009 |
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VXX |
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8-19-2009 |
The VIX ETF signaled a sell before the rest of the signals came in the following day. That is interesting.
-K
Stock Alerts of the Week May 11 – May 15 2009
WoW what a sea of sell signals there was this week. This is the longest sell list I have seen.
Of Course this meant BUY for the short ETF's which you will see below with exception to ICE (not a short ETF) which seems to be in its own little world up in the ICE(y) north pole.
Picks of the week of May 11th to May 15th 2009
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Symbol |
Buy Date |
Buy Price |
Sell Date |
Sell Price |
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$SPX |
5-13-2009 |
905.40 |
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$INDU |
5-13-2009 |
8461.88 |
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$COMPX |
5-12-2009 |
1743.52 |
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IWM |
5-12-2009 |
50.82 |
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SPY |
5-13-2009 |
90.01 |
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IYR |
5-12-2009 |
34.00 |
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AAPL |
5-12-2009 |
129.71 |
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BBT |
5-11-2009 |
25.02 |
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BCS |
5-12-2009 |
16.87 |
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BAC |
5-13-2009 |
11.95 |
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ICE |
5-12-2009 |
93.28 |
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ING |
5-13-2009 |
9.56 |
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FAZ |
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5-14-2009 |
5.81 |
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F |
5-12-2009 |
5.77 |
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SDS |
5-13-2009 |
59.68 |
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SRS |
5-13-2009 |
22.81 |
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SSO |
5-13-2009 |
25.02 |
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SKF |
5-13-2009 |
47.37 |
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UYG |
5-13-2009 |
3.92 |
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URE |
5-12-2009 |
3.97 |
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URG |
5-14-2009 |
1.04 |
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UNG |
5-15-2009 |
16.19 |
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JNK |
5-15-2009 |
33.60 |
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HYG |
5-13-2009 |
76.52 |
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FSLR |
5-13-2009 |
187.05 |
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V |
5-12-2009 |
65.85 |
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ICO |
5-13-2009 |
2.93 |
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TZA |
5-13-2009 |
28.36 |
I hope you are enjoying the picks so far. Without suggestions and comments I cannot improve this blog so I strongly encourage comments.
-K
SKF (UltraShort Financials) Overbought?
I hope you saw my post about my February performance. Most of my gains were thanks to shorting the financial sector via SKF.
I have still kept an eye on the ETF after selling it and is now is extremely overbought on many levels. I had a target of $250-255 for it but I did not hold my shares past $200. Now that my target has been reached I am looking for SKF to come back down to earth, I am looking for at least $182-186 range.
With the market crashing down so fast there is not much incentive to go more short as I am sure SEC has plans for a no shorting rule or at least something to stop the bleeding. That concludes this post and I will rest my case by providing you the chart which I am basing my case on.
Below I am attaching a chart showing the RSI being overbought but also SKF itself going over the Bollinger bands that I use.
If you are looking to buy into SKF (besides trading it for quick scalps) then either stay away from it or just take the chart into consideration. (Click to Enlarge)
As always, I merely post my opinions on here so I am not responsible for anyone's financial decisions.
Have a good day,
-K
UYG short term bounce next week?
If you looked at my previous post I called for a break of support for S&P 500.
I didnt really set a target below but Matt Trivisonno had called this low back in October.
768.67 - Coming Soon to a Screen Near You … a screen about 18 inches in front of your face that is. 768.67 was the S&P 500 intra-day low on October 10, 2002. That was the day that the last bear market ended.
Since that Call was made almost 5 months ago and things have gotten even worse now.. I don't think the bear market will end here.
The interesting stock of the day is UYG
I have been looking at Fibonacci numbers lately and UYG has 2 targets which it hit. One was at $2.39 and the otheer at $1.95.
I loaded up at 2.43 with an idea of doubling down at 1.95 but missed the the boat.
If 1.95 is really a reversal zone there are a few projected upside targets. Probably strongest resistance will be at
$2.61 (38.2% fib value)
$3.05 (61.8% fib value) also that would fill the gap-down UYG had on February 17 which could mean UYG then is free to begin another leg down to -zero-.
If i were to be bullish on this ETF (which I am not at the moment) other resistances above are $3.37 and the extreme $4.29. I do not see these last 2 prices near term however.
Here is the chart to show you what I am looking at. Note: projected upside values are not shown. (Click to Enlarge)
Sources:
Matt Trivisonno (768.67-Coming Soon to a Screen Near You)
Investing in a Bearish Market
During hard times like the ones we are seeing now with the economy, one thing i am beginning to like is Ultra Short ETF's. They are basically bets against certain sectors or indexes. There are also ProShares which bet for the market to go up.
One of my latest moves into ETF's is buying (SKF) Ultrashort Financials on August 14, 2008 . As you can see from the table i have provided (hopefully it displays decent in most readers) I am looking at the Point & Figure Patterns for the Top 40 stocks market cap wise in the financial sector. FRE and FNM are not up at the top but have been talked a lot about in recent news.
Before i get you confused as to what the signals mean I will provide a brief description of each, courtesy of stockcharts.com
- The double bottom breakdown implies that the buyers who were supporting the price are no longer able to create demand that is more than the supply, and prices are breaking down.
- A triple bottom breakdown is similar to a double bottom breakdown except that the price at which the breakdown occurred is a price that the chart retraced from two times before. The breakdown below this level implies that the sellers are now creating more supply than there is demand and therefore the prices are breaking down.
- A double bottom followed by another double bottom, or three bottoms, each lower than the previous is recognized as an descending triple bottom breakdown. The idea is that supply is continuing to outstrip demand on an ongoing basis.
- A bull trap is a triple top breakout followed by a reversal. The breakout is possibly due to buy stops being hit just above the resistance level, and the quick reversal suggests lower prices ahead.
- The high pole warning is given when a chart rises above a previous high by at least 3 boxes but then reverses to give back at least 50 percent of the rise. The reversal implies that the demand that was making the prices rise has given way to supply pressure. The pattern is a warning that lower prices could be seen in the future.
- Bullish signal reversed pattern is a series of rising tops and bottoms that finally soaks up all demand and the double bottom breakdown at the end signals that now supply is outstripping demand.
Enjoy the table I have created. As you can see many bearish signals were given on August 13 so I went ahead and bought SKF on Aug 14 at $123.50.
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Top Bearish Financials |
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Symbol |
Signal |
Date Signal Spotted |
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Triple Bottom Breakdown |
August 6, 2008 |
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Double Bottom Breakdown |
August 7, 2008 |
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Double Bottom Breakdown |
August 8, 2008 |
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Double Bottom Breakdown |
August 11, 2008 |
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Descending Tripple Bottom Breakdown |
August 12, 2008 |
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Triple Bottom Breakdown |
August 13, 2008 |
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Spread Triple Bottom Breakdown |
August 13, 2008 |
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Double Bottom Breakdown |
August 13, 2008 |
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Bull Trap |
August 13, 2008 |
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Bearish Triangle |
August 13, 2008 |
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Double Bottom Breakdown |
August 13, 2008 |
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High Pole Warning |
August 13, 2008 |
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Bullish Signal Reversed |
August 13, 2008 |
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High Pole Warning |
August 13, 2008 |
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Double Bottom Breakdown |
August 14, 2008 |
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Double Bottom Breakdown |
August 14, 2008 |
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Double Bottom Breakdown |
August 18, 2008 |
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Double Bottom Breakdown |
August 18, 2008 |
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This is the longest post i've written and I'm sure some of you want to ask questions or make comments, please let's discuss.