Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Market Comments, 28/9/2010



One only has to look at the MACD and the RSI to see that we're still in a non-trending pattern. Flat - sideways.

The bulls had a good win yesterday which took the candle above the previous high. Was the break significant enough to say that it was a breakout? Maybe.

I always want to wait to see if there is follow through buying the next day to confirm - and on reasonable volume.

Today - we had a little bit of selling on low volume.

I don't like the three day candle pattern we're looking at here. (You won't find it in Neeson's book on Candlestick patterns.) It consists of a narrow range candle (usually black) followed by a large white candle, followed by a narrow range candle (like today).

It usually means, as far as I can see, that the white candle was formed by a panic driven short covering squeeze - and there was no fundamental reason behind it. So - the third day is a day that lacks conviction. A short-covering squeeze will last more than a day. This one hasn't.

Maybe I'm dreaming. We'll see.

Gold ETF (Gold in Ozzie Dollars) was down a little today - more relatively than the XAO. So that's not good for Gold. But good for the XAO.

Yesterday, I showed a Ratio Chart of Gold:XAO and had a support line drawn in - with the chart breaking marginally below the support line.

Much of Technical Analysis is subjective - seeing shapes in clouds.

So - today I've shown the same chart (updated for today's action) with a slightly different support line drawn in. That's a little less negative at this stage about the Gold ETF.

Gold ETF remains within in narrow consolidation channel - moving sideways (see the top chart). In a way this is an inverse mirror image of the XAO.

A break either way by Gold and XAO will probably set the medium term direction.

I'm still waiting.

Cheers
Red

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