Quick Charting the Trading Levels in Financials XLF FAS and FAZ

We’ve been hearing a lot of attention – as usual – on the Financial sector (particularly in Europe), so let’s take a brief moment to see the key chart/trading levels we’re watching on the popular XLF Financial Sector ETF and then peek at the wild 3x leveraged financial funds FAS (3x Bullish) and FAZ (3x…

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Checking on Market Internals for September 13

What are Market Internals revealing about the current position of the S&P 500? Let’s take a look at the current structure and make note of prior reversals via Market Internal Divergences: Let’s take the somewhat busy chart step-by-step for clarification. What we’re seeing is the 15-min S&P 500 Index with two different Market Internal gauges:…

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Triple US Equity Index Check to Start the Week Sept 12

What levels are we watching for set-ups/game-plans in the triple US Equity indexes – Dow, S&P 500, and NASDAQ? Let’s get a quick check-up on these levels and current market structure as we start the week: I’ll focus the majority of the description of structure on the S&P 500 as the picture is almost identical…

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Charting the Breakdown Levels to Watch in the Euro XEU

News of Greece’s debt and European contagion again dominated the headlines on Friday. The Euro broke major confluence chart support and is currently in free-fall… but what is the current structure saying and what are the current levels to watch as a reference? Let’s take a look, starting with the Weekly Frame: What we’re seeing…

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Triple Timeframing the Critical Support in the German DAX

With the European financial situation dominating headlines, traders continue to monitor the strength of Germany’s economy as the strongest economy in the region. There’s an interesting chart pattern situation developing on Germany’s DAX index (stock market), so let’s focus on the triple-timeframe picture which includes a critical support level on the higher frames and a…

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Charting the Key Resistance Level in Daily Crude Oil

In general, crude oil prices are closely following stock prices, including the recent rally into confluence resistance. Let’s chart that key resistance level to watch on the daily chart in Crude Oil: Let’s start with the current structure and then take a moment to learn a few charting lessons from similar set-ups in the last…

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Updating the Key Reference Levels on the SP500 September 2

Well that was interesting – absolutely no jobs were created in August, so says the Non-Farm Payrolls report released September 2nd. Understandably – both from a news and chart perspective – the market fell sharply Friday morning. However, what does this mean in the bigger chart picture, and what are the critical support and resistance…

Charting the Emerging Market EEM Rally into Resistance Levels

What’s going on with the popular Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) and what are the key higher timeframe reference levels? Let’s take a look, starting with the higher weekly structure which identifies the two main levels: Cutting right the main point, major confluence support (Fibonacci and 200d SMA) resides at the $38.00 per share level –…

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Updated Stock Scan on Most Overextended from 200d SMA

With the recent sharp downturn in the stock market, we have a new list of most “over-extended” and “under-extended” stocks from their 200 day Simple Moving Average. Let’s take a look at the current scan results of most extended S&P 500 stocks, starting with most over-extended: To recap briefly, the purpose of this scan is…