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Twenty-One

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The past few days have provided a much-needed relief rally to the market as a whole. Across a wide span of financial assets, a quick and powerful upsurge has sprung prices from the depths toward what I perceive as vitally-important zones of resistance. These take the form of price gaps, Fibonacci resistance levels, or simple horizontal lines, but in each case it will take very little to complete the trip to these exhaustion zones (or, if you’re inclined to be bullish, the same charts show that it wouldn’t take very much to violate these levels of resistance and put even more wind into the bullish sails).

Below are twenty-one ETFs I believe illustrate this succinctly. I’ll share a few words preceding each chart to summarize why I think it is at a meaningful price juncture.

We start with the commodities fund, which re-penetrated its descending price channel and formed a small rounded top. The war in Gaza pushed oil prices strongly higher, but the price gap caused between Friday and Monday is close to being sealed. Oil is the biggest component of DBC.

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Bell Curve of Earnings

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Here is an interesting way to look at the forthcoming earnings season from my colleagues at tastytrade:

As you can see, it’s basically a bell curve, peaking on November 2nd (with AAPL, as usual, wrapping up the meat of the season). You might want to bookmark this very helpful page on Slope to get a quick gauge on what key earnings are forthcoming as the few weeks ahead heat things up.