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Fifty Back

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I was saying on my twitter at lunchtime that the 70% option was a fail at weekly pivot resistance and the 50% retracement level on the NQ chart, and that duly delivered after a slightly nonplussed pause after the FOMC rate rise at 2pm as the market tried to work out whether such a heavily trailed announcement qualified as news and, if it did, whether such expected news could really be a credible reason for markets to react to it. Honestly I have no idea what the answers to those questions might be myself, but the setup favored the bears regardless and duly delivered the reversal at obvious resistance.

Key trendline support on the NDX charts is megaphone support currently in the 5650 area, and the near miss at the last test is suggesting strongly that will break on the next test. NDX 60min chart:

170614 NDX 60min

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Improvements in Sharing

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Ever since the introduction of SlopeCharts (and, more particularly, the PLUS-exclusive features in it), there has been a bull market in subscriptions, which is great. PLUS, after all, is what keeps this place running. I assure you, a few years ago, Slope of Hope was heading for the dustbin of history, since advertising revenue absolutely sucks. Anyway, PLUS is thriving, so thank you, PLUS members!

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My Name is Earl

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“Moments ago”, as Tyler likes to say, the crude oil inventory report came out, and – – much to my relief – -it did not soar (although, weirdly, 30 seconds before the report, it DID soar, and I was wondering if someone had screwed up……….but I guess it was just stop-running). Anyway, the market is still digesting the news, but as of now, we still haven’t really budged since the Big Black Down Day a week ago. Since then, we’ve just been hanging out at $46 or so.

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