Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Technical Picture - Bearish Candlesticks

Markets notched new intraday highs on strong economic data, but failed to hold. After failing to retest the early highs, prices retraced back to session lows. This leaves the S&P with two consecutive shooting stars and possibly a tweezer top reversal pattern.

Keep an eye on economic data tomorrow - durables in pre-market, followed by new home sales at 10:00 EST and crude inventories at 10:30.



If you have POT on your focus list, we lucked out again today with a bearish h pattern. Quite similar to Jim's CME bearish flag yesterday, except the consolidation has more of a curve. Price penetrated support from 3 PDLs (red line segments) and tried to save itself through a lengthy period of price/volume contraction. But the bears were victorious on the expansion. Once support gives way, all the preset stops trigger resulting in a fast move to the next support level.

5 comments:

anarco said...

Could not trade today but I had a feeling that POT would do what it did after yesterday's action.
I am happy you caught it!
Cheers.

TJ said...

Thanks Anarco,

Congrats on your SHLD trade yesterday!

TraderO7 said...

Yes Jamie, POT was always on my WL. But then I traded ICE twice and got killed in the process and I lost my focus early. I just watch POT afterwards eating the dust.

TraderO7 said...

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TJ said...

GD,

Thanks for the kind words. ICE is not on my WL. I prefer CME.