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Funny Looking Triangles

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The significant retracement that I was looking for yesterday never happened, as a triangle formed and then broke up, annoyingly after SPX and RUT both first broke rising channel support. The channel support that held was on NDX, and there is now a perfect rally channel there that I’m going to be using as my marker to show as and when this rally ends.

You probably won’t see a triangle on the charts easily but that’s because it was just an EW triangle. These often look like classical triangles but equally often don’t. This one below on NDX looks like a classical rectangle, but if you look at the RSI 14 then you see the underlying triangle there, which is generally the case. NDX has started a thrust out of the triangle and if sustained then the thrust should form a pattern, and then break down into a full retracement of the thrust. All of the sell signals from yesterday morning are still in place so as and when this thrust fails it will most likely fail hard. NDX 15min chart:

151009 NDX 15min Rising Channel

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Death Cross Formation on Japan’s Nikkei Index

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Notwithstanding the bearish moving average Death Cross that has now formed on the Japanese Nikkei Index, all three indicators are hinting of higher prices, as shown on the 5-year Daily chart below.

At the moment, major resistance sits at 19000, while minor support is at 17000, with major support at 16000. I’d watch the RSI, in particular, to see whether it can rise (and stay) above the 50.00 level. If so, we may see price spike to 19000 before consolidating — then, either, attempt to penetrate above (and reverse) the moving average cross-over and rally to, potentially, new highs, or drop to new lows around the 16000 level. Otherwise, a hold below 50.00 on the RSI may see price plunge as low as 16000 (or lower), first.