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Showing posts with label multi-pivot lines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label multi-pivot lines. Show all posts

Saturday, June 19, 2010

USO wedge

First a look at USO back to 2009. The $31-$32 level just highlights the major pivot zone that band has represented. The angled lines are multi-pivot parallels (equi-distant from one another) based off of the price behavior throughout 2009 and projected forward. Recently price bounced within that long-running support pivot (between $31-32) and made a run up to previous support (support-turned-resistance?) on waning volume.
The current wedge also happens to be a bearish wolfe wave (looking for volume to activate the "sweet spot").

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

RIMM short

Was watching RIMM waiting for this setup to work itself out.
Price set up a long entry late in the day on the 27th while today was the opposite, basing off of a lower pivot level short.Today, price found buying around the previous day's low (PDL) and selling at the previous day's VPOC.
A second bounce around the PDL, selling at a lower high.
In the meantime, RIMM formed a sideways consolidation zone.Finally, a weak bounce, again at the PDL, failed off the Open in a bear flag pattern.I was watching the PDL for a possible bounce, but internals were increasingly negative and once we sliced through this previous support level I held on for $59.50 for half, and $59 (original target) for the other half 2-minutes before the close. Though I did hold on to 5% going into tomorrow, targeting a test of a naked VPOC.

All-in-all, RIMM looks pretty busted. In an environment of trepidation, the strong issues will be held longest. This is getting the feel of an issue that is being shed. If it breaks $58 this should really have some momentum to the downside.The weekly chart looks busted, and on a broad perspective looks like a test of H&S neckline (log chart)

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Just Charts

Simply for my personal reference.
RIMM was so nice today as it based on my pivot line all day before ripping into the closeDaily chart with potential resistance near-term:
POT
Relentless to the upside today once it got through it's previous congestion zone
60-min
30-minFCX has moved nearly 10% in 3 days...me thinks it could consolidate in that$73-$74 range:
those immediate pullbacks to the lower/upper median line typically play out great

Transports

Dow Jones Transportation Index (or the IYT etf) Were a good tell today.
Before the breakoutAfter the breakout