Daily Murmur 22/11/10

by Gary Glover 22 November 2010

Major Bearish Signals everywhere you look.
I have been a serious chartist, technical analyst for almost 13 years and I can't ever recall seeing so many false break patterns at one time on weekly set ups.  What is most unbelievable about this is a lot of these are on major stock and commodity indices.  Just to name a couple the  S&P 500 Index, Dow Jones Index, Nasdaq, FTSE, Crude Oil, Sugar, Aluminium and Platinum have all rallied to a new high in recent weeks recently and failed to hold the high in place.  This is a major bearish signal and in my experience this is a high probability bearish set up.  

Just look at the BHP example below, see how often the big swings succeed following these false breaks, this is up near the 70-80% in my books, so the fact that so many have made this pattern is a unique universal sell set up.  This just happens to coincide with our commodities boom and bust forecast. 

The interesting thing about this false break pattern is that a large move follows this technical signal.  A minor new high is generally followed by a minor new low, so a retest of the previous low often means quite a move.  To get a high probability of success and also a larger than normal move, is probably why this is one of my favorite technical set ups.

I am starting to think that the commodities have topped and that we aren't going to get to January.   November and January are seasonally our two most likely times for a high and now I think that the high is most likely in place.  All these false breaks and lots of other indices retesting high's is starting to all point to a bearish move.  Four of the world’s major stock indices have all made false break highs and have a target approximately 15-20% lower.   Four commodity charts have made the same sell signal and a handful of these others are just shy of their record highs.

The BHP chart is indicative of alot of stocks and indices currently.


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