Friday, December 2, 2011

Reversal Bar Put in Stocks Today; Euro Reverses as Well


With the holiday season upon us for the next month, internals data will probably be skewed, confusing, and not as reliable as they are most of the year.  So I'm not going to depend on them as much, unless we see a huge spike in volume.

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Overall there's not much to add to my last post other than today printed a nice reversal bar on the daily chart.  Since the central banks saved the world for the hundreth time earlier in the week, the market has been hard pressed to mount any follow through to the rally.  I suspect this is very discouraging to the bulls and will lead to a big selloff soon.  With volume so light and the holiday season here, I'm not sure how quickly it will be for the decline to materialize, i.e Monday?  Two weeks?  But regardless of the exact timing, financial media is boasting about this week's massive stock gains as if it's bullish, while the technicals suggest the action this week is actually bearish for the weeks ahead.  The market can certainly float higher in light holiday trading, but that's a guess, what's more certain and supported by technical evidence is that the market looks poised to decline hard soon. 

Today's high seems like a good place to put a stop loss for aggressive bears.  For all others, above 1277.55 remains a very solid stop level.

Prechter: "The Trend Is Exhausted"





The euro appears to be in a lot of trouble here.  The gap from this past Sunday is still open, the RSI is diverging on the 4 hour chart, and today's selloff looks like a top is in.  I'm aggressively bearish the euro with a stop just above 1.3550 for my short term trades.

The Trend is Exhausted


PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS JUST AN ANALYSIS BLOG AND IN NO WAY GUARANTEES OR IMPLIES ANY PROFIT OR GAIN. THE DATA HERE IS MERELY AN EXPRESSED OPINION. TRADE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

8 comments:

Allan said...

The Daily Euro chart has been forming a beaish flag  since Tuesday off the potential double bottom. Todays bearish candle reversal sets-up a break of the double bottom for next week.
I can't believe how many talking heads turned Euro bullish the last few days.

The dollar has a totally inverse look. Get ready for a dollar explosion and a market collapse a'la 2008, the last time the CB's made the same annoucement.....Do they EVER learn?

Jah Dave said...

Hi Brothers in trading,

Watch the 8 and 21 moving average next week for when to exit your short positions.........I am an Elliott Wave guy and from my perspective this move up will get a retracement and then another five wave move up to complete a zig-zag before another strong move down............I will be short early next week but after that then I will be long for the latter part of the week..............Of course I will be trading my system on multiple time frames to confirm all of this................

Good trading Everyone,
JahDave

ScottyS2 said...

Jah Dave
A ST Correction coming
http://markethighsandlows.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/12-2-2011-update/

valunvstr said...

REALLY?  A DAILY falling star means the top is in?  Man, the bears will reach for any small symbol to tell their tale.  1220-1225ish is likely with 1220 as a gift.  It seems a new uptrend has begun.  

valunvstr said...

Also, 1292 was 1, 1159 was 2 and we are now in 3.  Good luck trading the wrong side of that.

TAfool said...

Valu, think you're right that we go up, but not because it's wave 3, it's wave Y (or c). Your wave 1 is my W (or a), your 2 is my X (or b) and Y (or c) now up to 1390±6 on /es

TAfool said...

For EUR/USD, looking for small pullback then more upside for rally into end of year then splat. My chart: http://www.tafool.com/Charts/eurusd1203114h.png Below $1.3200 says I'm ll wrong. Other pair to watch is the AUD/USD, should be primed for short here after next rally. It's got a long way to fall.

For S&P, 1146 to 1265 (/es #'s) was wave "i" or "a" up and now in "ii" or "b" down of this final leg up to 1390ish. Below 1146 says I'm wrong on that.

anon said...

VIX showed a dragonfly doji.

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