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Some Sectors to Ponder

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I am late putting up a post tonight, because I attended an absolutely amazing lecture by Jaron Lanier on the Stanford campus. I’ve known about Jaron’s work since I first got into computers 35 years ago, but I had never heard him speak. He’s a straight-up genius. It was just an amazing talk that touched on politics, the economy, and data privacy.

Anyway. Let’s look at a handful of charts.

First is $XOI, the oil and gas sector, which has been my dearest friend all year. The miniature head and shoulders pattern has performed great, and the lowest green horizontal is my target.

1207-xoi

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Back on the Three Day Rule

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Three trend days in a row last week. It’s been a while since we saw that. The turbulence may well continue. We were looking at it in Chart Chat last night and that is posted for all on the front page at theartofchart.net. Bottom line is that we are expecting a little higher this week, possibly a bit over 2104, and possibly bit under 2104 if a triangle is forming. After that we should see another move down.

SPX broke back over the 5dma on Friday so SPX is back on the 5dma Three Day Rule. A close below the 5dma either today or tomorrow make a retest of the 2042 low this week very likely, though it might be a slightly higher low is SPX is forming a triangle. We may well be forming a triangle here and I’ve drawn that, and the RSI mirror pattern, on the chart below. SPX daily chart:

151205 SPX Daily 5dma and Poss Triangle

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