Trench warfare

  http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$SPX&p=D&yr=0&mn=6&dy=0&id=p83257770514&a=266398464 With Memorial day on us it is worth reminding readers of the horrors of World War I.  After a series of indecisive battles (and the German failure to…

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The art and science of top analysis

  http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$SPX&p=D&yr=0&mn=6&dy=0&id=p83257770514&a=266398464 Forget the science part.  There is none at present which is dependable.  Technicians are running around crazily calculating RSIs and MACDs  and computing cycles and "analogues" and  throwing…

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Ominous formations in IWM AND QQQ

  http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=IWM&p=D&yr=1&mn=0&dy=0&id=p42567425598&a=350518198 The most superficial examination of the IWM reveals  details with negative implications.  A two month downtrend is obvious and prices are approaching the horizontal trendline.  This trendline may…

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Whoa…whiplash

  http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$SPX&p=D&yr=0&mn=10&dy=0&id=p44872926553&a=214966864 Barely had the SPX made a record high when contrarians jumped on the vulnerable issue and smacked the hell out of it.  Vulnerable because the high was made…

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