Many of the traders and portfolio managers that I speak to are looking at the beleaguered commodity and industrial materials sectors as ripe for reentry on the long side. They're watching companies like Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX), U.S. Steel (X), Alcoa (AA), Walter Energy (WLT), Mosaic (MOS), Deere (DE), and Caterpillar (CAT), for example. However, my enclosed monthly chart of the China Shanghai Composite gives me pause about such a committment right at this time.
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No Support, and It’s Beautiful
Three Shorts & One Long (by Ryan Mallory)
This market has been nothing but a chop-fest and this definitely favors the bulls should this continue throughout the day. There is a ton of support at the 1120 level on the S&P and you can clearly see the buy machines come on strong every time that level is tested. Once the bears can close below that level though, it should make for a nice windfall to the downside.
Junk Follow-Up
From my post of September 13:
…and the result…
Proving once again that profits delayed are not profits denied.
That QuEasy Feeling
Friend-of-Slope and fellow blogger Serge send me a chart this morning which is, as so many of his creations are, a thing of beauty. Here it is:
What he's laid out here is not only gorgeous from a charting perspective, but it lines up beautifully with my own price projections and the events that are swirling in the world around us. Thanks, Serge; I'm prepared to become boldly bullish sometime this month!
