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AAPL Cycles – “Dead Cat Bounce” Brewing? (by Strawberry Blonde)

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AAPL pulled back today without breaking above the +1 level of its uptrending regression channel, as shown on the Daily chart below. It has moved in cycles since its June 2011 low…pulling back on overbought readings of my short-term RSI indicator, and traditional MACD and Stochastics indicators…and after briefly breaking above the +1 channel level.

At the moment, there is a negative divergence on my RSI indicator and on Stochastics…MACD is still rising. Near-term support sits at, first, Monthly VWAP (broken yellow) at 417.63, then Monthly Volume Profile POC (yellow horizontal lines) at 413.86, and then the channel "mean" (broken pink) at 406.83.

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Bank of Canada Business Outlook Survey

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The Bank of Canada released its latest Business Outlook Survey this morning. As referenced in the notes below (courtesy of www.Forexfactory.com), it's a leading indicator of economic health, affecting spending, hiring, and investment, and it can have predictive qualities regarding future economic conditions because the surveyed firms are selected in accordance with their composition of the nation's GDP.

The survey is shown in its entirety here: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/bos_winter2011.pdf

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