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Surging Slope

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Greetings from Atlanta, Georgia, where I’m able to actually use water without guilt (as opposed to California, where we are all praying El Nino actually comes through this winter). I managed to eek my way through the trading day on a plane with a GoGo Internet connection, which is ungodly slow and painful, but it is better than nothing (although just barely).

It was an odd trading day. I was so relieved that the quarter was closed, I didn’t let it faze me too badly that the ES was soaring on the night of the 30th. Gartman finally yelled “Uncle!” in the middle of the night so, as God intended, the markets promptly changed course, and when I woke up they were barely even in the green. It’s too bad the plunge during the day got reversed, and in the end, it was one of those days that might have well just have never bothered opening.

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A Distant Memory of Sleep

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Stan and I, for unrelated reasons, have both been having very intense weeks offline this week. I’ve had a total of about 12 hours sleep since I woke up on Monday morning, and am feeling a little ragged. Just for a change this morning then, and so I can get this post up before the open today, I’m going to use a couple of charts that I posted for the main chart package subscribers at theartofchart.net last night.

The ES chart that I posted last night showed a falling megaphone that was close to a resistance test, but with the observation that there was a fixed double bottom target at 1920 that I would expect to be hit, so in that case megaphone resistance would have to break. That megaphone is now broken and ES has made the double bottom target. ES 60min chart (last night):

150930 ES 60min

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