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Empty Promises

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I was tidying up some things in my home office today, and I noticed a couple of binders that I hadn’t looked at in years. They were labeled “Tim’s Trading Tome” volumes one and two. In them were hundreds of pages and charts I had collected in late 2008, 2009, and 2010, Early 2009 of course, was the bottom of the market, and we began a multi-hundred-percent climb (in the case of some stocks, multi-thousand-percent) climb.

Naturally, though, on the heels of the financial crisis, there were plenty of popular publications that were saying it was the start of something much bigger. Here’s a snippet from one we all know:

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Sunday ETF Quintet

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Just nine days until election day, everyone. I’m sure we’ll be glad when it’s all over (more or less), but I think we can all at least agree it’s entertaining for the moment.

I thought I’d just thumb through a few ETF charts, since the market is still very “stuck” and there’s not a lot of dynamism to point out. This is short and sweet – five charts – so here we go: first is the emerging markets, which had a nice rally off its basing pattern (tinted) but seems to be getting turned away by a much larger trendline (red arrow shows resistance). The pattern for the Chinese ETF, symbol FXI, is rather similar.

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