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the Pound, gorilla’s and juggling dynamite …

“once you decide to deploy capital, in any market, realize that you are entering a cage w/ gorilla’s and OBTW they are juggling dynamite”   Joe Dinappoli (www.fibtrader.com) STUDENT: Larry  what is a good month of trading? (www.tradingtutor.com) MENTOR: “looking at your P&L and seeing $.01 or 1 cent” I deploy capital in one of […]

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DJTA from the beginning 10/29/1896 w/ a dose of a 2.6 is 4.0 to me

true confession time … some of you might know and some of you might not know that I spent my first 11 years out of college w/ the privilege and honor to serve in the United States Navy.  I flew jets, saw the world and knew absolutely NOTHING about the economy.  In fact, here’s the […]

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Russell 2000 IWM and it’s repeating moves – CAVEAT EMPTOR

measured moves are powerful tools and on long term charts they are very useful for forecasting price moves.  take a look at the chart below … the BLUE arrows are the lengths of the bull moves in the IWM.  appears the current move will converge nicely in/around 113-114.  Then, since we are all working w/ […]

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the “Ray Charles” count on BIDU

counting waves is hard … you have to develop your eye and you have to figure out when to trust a count or just let it go and “hope” (a strategy) that the count will show itself.  I particularly like counts on long term monthly type of charts.  simply,  all the noise is filtered out […]

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More Pumpkin Soup … added a new ingredient to the recipe: GOOG.

classic or not that certainly proved to NOT be a head and shoulders neckline but a launching pad for a SATURN 5 and kaboom it exploded.  as you can imagine the short well, took it on the chin to say the least: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05PKG_pWsVY ! Howard (Founder/CEO of Stocktwits) commented “as for me, I’ll stay long.”  WELL PLAYED […]

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Plotting the next move in fixed income …

fixed income has bounced rather nicely and now the big question is “are we going to go to new highs?” 1.5 years ago, as fixed income flirted w/ the all time highs for 5 months we correctly saw multiple correlations that put the sell pattern present in context … http://allstarcharts.com/are-interest-rates-at-a-key-inflection-point/ from there, the bonds fell […]

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Part 2 of Part 1-V on the S&P

Part 1 was a look around the world at different equity indices based on ETF’s: https://bartscharts.com/2013/09/14/part-1-the-sp-500-but-first-we-need-to-go-around-the-world/ of note is the Global Equity ETF (ACWI) and the SELL pattern that is appearing as we showed in our last “around the world” update shown below. Overall, nothing to crazy but the analysis appears to have been correct. […]

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the joys of the puzzle …

a couple days ago I posted about the US Dollar missing my lower target and the potentiality of a bottom and even saw a “nice” inverse head and shoulders that IF it broke thru would be a bullish signal.  it didn’t and, now, looks like my lower target is going to be attacked.  quite frankly, […]

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QUALCOM Confluence ….

PROJECT then EXTEND then RETRACE … for QCOM they are all coming together a little higher.  Frankly, never seen this many ratio’s come together. Stay tuned BUT that’s all she wrote ….          

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