Those of you who were nimble and daring enough to have gotten off a short just above my 553.87 target last Friday should set a hair-trigger stop-loss, since GOOG looks like it’s a-comin’ to git ya. The stock could hit 568.18 on the next maniacal leap. The sibling midpoint of that Hidden Pivot is 554.44, just beneath the 554.75 high. My hunch is that if the stock can better the pivot, the peak itself won’t put up much of a fight. ______ UPDATE: GOOG exploded for a quick $8 points, topping at 559.35 before detumescing on the stock market’s final-hour selloff. If you were short coming in and dodged the bullet, treat yourself to a good cigar.
From the monthly archives:
October 2009
The futures have gone limp enroute to a presumptive target at 1105.50. The sibling midpoint of this Hidden Pivot resistance lies at 1091.00, which is the a approximate midpoint of the last two days’ action. Let’s stipulate that a close above that number be recorded before we infer that the rally is back in gear.
DXY has reversed sharply after having failed to achieve the top of the 74.97-75.04 pullback range I’d flagged. This suggests that the rally will have legs — most immedfiately to get it to a 76.16 target that is the closest important Hidden Pivot on the hourly chart. The midpoint lies at 75.81, so anything above it will foretell more upside. (Note: This corrects my earlier analysis, which was derived from a TradeStation chart that had failed to refresh. I have found this to be a problem with the TradeStation platform, especially when I was trading off a chart, unaware that the last price displayed was an hour old.)
The consolidation begun from last Wednesday’s 18.175 high feels like it has a bit farther to go, but if and when it gives way to a thrust exceeding the 18.504 peak shown in the chart, that would be the most encouraging event, technically speaking, since late June. The nearest Hidden Pivot target of consequence on the daily chart is 19.920. Its sibling midpoint is 17.840, and we can infer the target is a good bet to be reached if the futures can close for two consecutive days above the midpoint.
Take a look at the hourly chart if you’re worried that yesterday’s selloff was anything special. In fact, the uptrend from Monday’s 1048.60 low is intact and projects to 1073.00, provided the midpoint sibling of that Hidden Pivot, 1062.80, can be surmounted. Alternatively, it would take a decline to at least 1038.90 today to turn the intraday charts mildly menacing.
Here is Col. Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, flatly contradicting the Goldstone Report that accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead. “The Israeli Defense Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare,” Kemp testified before the U.N. Human Rights Council. ”Israel did so while facing an enemy that deliberately positioned its military capability behind the human shield of the civilian population.” Click here to access a short excerpt from Col. Kemp’s presentation.
The futures are coming up on a 1.5131 Hidden Pivot target that looks like a high-odds spot for an important — and presumably tradable — top. Longs can use it to manage risk with a shrinking trailing stop, but it can also be shorted with a stop-loss as tight as you can handle. Once the target has been closely approached (i.e., within 4-7 ticks), camouflage players should use the 3-minute chart to board the first abc downtrend. _____ UPDATE: The rally ran into granite at 1.5059, so we’ll pull the short offer for now.
Having bettered a rally target on the daily chart yesterday, the December contract has become an odds-on bet to achieve the next, 150.85. That would represent a rally of about 5 percent from these levels.
The Gold Bugs Index signaled a rally to as high as 492.52 two weeks ago, but it seems content for the time being to lazily consolidate near that Hidden Pivot’s sibling midpoint, 441.99. If you’re looking for a camouflaged blastoff signal, I’d suggest using either of the two look-to-the-left peaks shown on the accompanying 3-minute chart.
Chuck on Gold Stocks: Don’t Procrastinate!
by Rick Ackerman on October 21, 2009 1:57 am GMT · 4 comments
Our NYC-based correspondent Chuck Cohen, a consultant who specializes in gold investments, is so bullish on mining shares right now that he can barely contain himself. We’re hard-pressed to hold back ourselves, having recently disseminated a 492 target, 12% above current levels, for the Gold Bugs Index (HUI). We also expect the next surge in Comex Gold to push the December contract up to at least $1134, implying a rally of about seven percent from current levels. Chuck’s latest dispatch is mainly a pep talk, but he concludes with a strong recommendation for a Canadian mining stock with an OTC listing in the U.S. The name of this » Read the full article