Bear Markets and Former Leaders (by Facesincabs)

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Wow, what a nice
surprise today for "da bears"!

When a bear market
gets going, one of things that I do is keep an eye on former leaders at their
key support levels.  For example, let's
take a look at retail because a couple months ago it did not seem like it would
every stop climbing as it neared life time highs.  Notice that retail took out a key level
today.  That suggests to me that there is
more weakness ahead.

 

http://tinyurl.com/27bkarv
(retail)


Snap17


 

The other observation
that I have about today and the end of this quarter is that redemption selling
is back.  Usually the money managers and
institutions are protecting their quarterly profits on a day like today, but
clearly we have another shock event on the charts today and the selling by
institutions is persistent.  With that in
mind, here is a another fallen price leader.

 

http://tinyurl.com/24vtlwd
(real estate)

Snap18

 

Notice the "hole
in the wall" set up on this chart. 
If you are not familiar with this set up you can get a definition and
examples here … http://www.hardrightedge.com/trader.htm.  I expect that we will be seeing this pattern
on many charts after today.

 

That's all I have
time for now.  Good luck to everyone tomorrow.