Archives for July 2019

July 22nd Daily Market Comments

Over the past couple of weeks, the market indexes produced J-hook patterns, indicating the T-line was acting as support. But more importantly, the strength of the J-hook pattern moved the market indexes into all-time highs, breaking out through an 18 month resistance level. What if that breakout illustrated a new dynamic in investor sentiment, implying that another strong wave is about to begin.

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07/25/2019 Stock Chat with Stephen Bigalow

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Stock Chat – Thursday 07/25/19

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July 19 Daily Market Comments

Although the indexes are trading at the lower end of their trading range, they are illustrating the Bulls remain in control of the trend with the indexes staying above the T-line. This continues to provide a trading atmosphere where bullish candlestick patterns continue to perform.

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July 18th Market Wrap-Up

Candlestick analysis provides a completely common sense perspective of what price movements will be doing, It does not rely upon projections of which stocks/sectors are going to move bullish or bearish and then waiting to see if those projections are correct. Candlestick analysis is the immediate graphic evaluation of which stocks and sectors are getting bullish or bearish sentiment. This is been illustrated during the current market trend. Although the slow uptrend of the indexes has experienced an oscillating trend movement, specific sectors have clearly shown strong bullish or bearish trend movement. Gold and silver stocks have been exhibiting strong bullish charts, correlating with the strong bullish commodity charts of gold and silver. Crude oil stocks have produced good short trades corresponding with the strong current downtrend of crude oil. Producing consistent profits is not a difficult process when using candlestick analysis. It is merely learning the signals and patterns that are created by reoccurring human nature investment decision-making.

Recognizing the strong chart patterns produces two basic results. First, it puts investment funds in the correct direction of a price move and secondly, the price moves are usually inordinately strong. A slow uptrend in the overall market creates slow uptrending price moves in most individual stocks. Taking advantage of the information built into candlestick patterns allows for producing inordinate profits during that same market price move. Currently numerous frypan bottom breakout’s and J-hook pattern breakouts are creating big profits. Once an investor learns a simple techniques for analyzing the overall market trend, they produce the opportunity to make big gains in candlestick chart patterns that are corresponding with the overall market trend. Simply stated, candlestick analysis puts investment funds into the appropriate positions with a high degree of probability.

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July 18th Daily Market Comments

Consolidation? Appears to be. The Dow has currently used the T-line as support. The NASDAQ and the S&P 500 trading lower but currently trading above the open. The transportation index is trading positive after the hard selling of yesterday. The T-line remains the crucial analytical tool. It will be important to see how the indexes close relative to the T-line Today. A pullback is obviously in progress.

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July 17th Daily Market Comments

The analysis of all the major indexes makes for much more clear assessment of the overall market trend. Yesterday, the Dow, the NASDAQ, and the S&P 500 were forming mildly bearish candlestick formations but the transportation index was demonstrating a strong bullish move. This implied the overall market trend was just consolidating. However, the transportation index showing a strong sell indicator, almost a bearish kicker signal, is coinciding with the selling that is occurring in the other indexes.

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July 16th Daily Market Comments

Although the Dow, NASDAQ, and S&P 500 are not showing any dramatic strength so far today, the lack of any major pullback continues to reveal the bullish trend, coming out of a J-hook pattern, is still in progress. The most compelling bullish factor today is the transportation index up huge. This indicates bullish sentiment is still in control of the current trend. Until there is a major sell signal, it has to be assumed the uptrend remains in progress as long as the indexes continue to trade above the T-line, let alone the 3T-line.

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June 15th Market Direction

Candlestick charts not only reveal the immediate price movements based upon investor sentiment but candlestick charts also allow for a much more accurate evaluation of what investor sentiment is going to do in the near future. This is extremely valuable for these market conditions. The market indexes have moved into new high territory, all-time high territory. Will the markets go higher? A large percentage of investors rationalize that if the markets are at all-time highs, it is time to take profits. Candlestick charts reveal a completely different evaluation. A J-hook pattern was formed in the Dow right at the breakout area of new highs. Understanding the results of a J-hook pattern made it very clear that there was buying expectations based upon the J-hook pattern that indicated the recent highs were still going to have more upside. Analyzing investor sentiment based upon candlestick charts allows for logical analysis of a price trend, eliminating the ill rational emotional expectations. If a J-hook pattern reveals more upside through the breakout area, the longer-term charts can then be analyzed with much more accuracy. The Dow has moved sideways for the past 18 months. The current breakout of that resistance level indicates a high probability the next wave may be in progress, producing the potential of another strong upside market on the basis of the first wave prior to the 18 month consolidation.

Having a strong probability analysis of the overall markets allows for aggressively participating in the strong candlestick chart patterns. This allows for taking advantage of pattern breakouts such as frypan bottoms and J-hook patterns. Individual stocks can produce extremely strong profits with pattern breakouts that do not have the dampening a fact of selling indications in the general market. Adding all these elements together allows an investor to put positions together that have high probabilities of producing high profit trades. Remember, this is based upon one simple factor. Human emotions produce the most reliable chart pattern indicators in the world.

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July 15th Daily Market Comments

The lack of any hard selling today indicates some profit-taking but not any major selling pressure. The Dow, breaking out into new high territory on Friday, coming off a J-hook pattern set up, provides better credence that a new investor sentiment was ready to move the indexes further into high territory. It would not be unusual to see today’s trading as a consolidation day.

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July 12th Daily Market Comments

Today’s positive trading in the Dow has some major implications. The magnitude of Today’s bullish trading is less important than the fact that there is bullish trading in new high territory. Simply analyzed, investors new the markets were at all-time highs and they are continuing to buy.

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