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I’d like to ask you a quick favor – What would you like to hear in a podcast? I’m toying around with the idea of producing a weekly (free) informational podcast and I would like to know your thoughts on what you would like discussed. Please take a brief moment and let me know through…

Over the last few weeks, both gold and crude oil prices have become more volatile, both rising quickly and falling quicker. Let’s take a peek at some of the charts and what it might mean for the stock market: Crude Oil Prices: Recall that Crude Oil prices are quoted in US Dollars, and the dollar…

I was inspired by a recent article in my local paper entitled “What Then Must We Do?” which tackles the sense of ‘loss of control’ or uncertainty that is so common to stock market participants. Author Bonnie Roberts of The Valley Planet pondered a list of 45 humorous points that were completely out of her…

Today’s near 300 point Dow Jones decline also printed a potential “Bearish Engulfing” candlestick pattern at resistance, which could signal more bearishness is ahead. Let’s look at the Daily chart and drill down to the smaller time frames: The Bearish Engulfing pattern occurs when the second day completely overtakes the previous day’s high and low….

I think the Market shocked a lot of people today by making such a large volatility upwards price move, both in reaction to the Fed announcing a $200 Billion stimulus package to help the credit crisis, and by shorts covering to avoid being steamrolled (combined with new longs buying in anticipation of a bottom –…

Let’s peek at some of the major Indexes to see what may be the next play in the upcoming weeks: First, the Dow Jones: Notice that the Broadening Top formation (bearish) that I mentioned months ago is completing to the downside. Momentum keeps making lower lows, signaling the increased probability of lower index prices are…

Let’s take a quick look at where we stand and were we may be heading on the US Stock Market chart, using the Dow Jones Index as our proxy. I don’t normally draw so many lines on the chart, but there are a variety of support and resistance levels, many of which I have not…

Today’s action in the stock market was marked by a lengthy consolidation channel, with a mini-breakout into the close, leading to lower prices. Let’s take a quick look not only what happened from a technical picture on the intraday chart, but let’s learn a lesson about channels. This is a textbook example of a consolidation…