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China Bounce or Catastrophic Drop Coming?

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Further to my post of May 7, the following Daily comparison and ratio charts of China’s Shanghai Index (SSEC) and Australia’s Composite Index (AORD) show that SSEC now sits at long-term major support (in both instances), once again, and is vulnerable to further weakness in comparison with AORD.

We’ll see if the Shanghai Index can muster a bounce here and gain any kind of sustainable strength and momentum to support an eventual breakout to higher prices in the Australian Index, or whether a plunge here produces a follow-on drop in AORD.

Failure at current levels could produce a catastrophic and swift drop for China down to the lows produced in 2014. (more…)

Vee Movie

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Apologies for the very late post again today. Wednesday is my biggest charting night of the week at theartofchart.net and I was up until 4am. When I get to my desk every morning I also review and publish charts on currently nineteen different futures and forex pairs with a premarket video looking at any changes of interest on each. Even though I live to chart I tend to get a bit tired on Thursdays.

There’s a running trader’s joke about types of days that can set up in the morning and then play out over the rest of the trading day. It’s like a movie when you watch the first part and you have a pretty good idea how the rest plays out. Some tape movies, such as Buy The Dip movies are very common, but today’s was a rarer variety that I have christened the Vee Movie.

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