Lately, with the debt ceiling negotiations usurping everyone's thought processes, excitement about last week's powerful upmove in the financials and banks has faded into the background. Purely from a technical perspective, however, JP Morgan (JPM) is acting very well as it continues to carve out an intermediate term bottom formation, presumably ahead of a thrust that projects to 45.00-46.00.

Since its high at 42.55 exactly one week ago today, JPM has relinquished half of its gains into the 40.60/50 support zone, where it is finding support that should provide a secondary basing area from which renewed strength should emerge in the upcoming hours — headline and market risk notwithstanding.

All else being equal, JPM is poised to begin a new upleg that will revisit the July high at 42.55, which if hurdled, will trigger upside targets into the 45.00-46.00 target zone.

Originally published on MPTrader.com.

In theory, the commodity mining, producer type names should perform well in an environment of dollar weakness. Such is the case with Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX). FCX is pushing up towards a retest of its prior multi-month rally peak at 56.68 from July 21, which should be hurdled and will trigger upside continuation that projects to 58.00-59.00 next.

At this juncture, only a failure to hurdle 56.68 followed by a decline that breaks 54.80 will compromise the timing of the upside breakout of this very constructive pattern.

Originally published on MPTrader.com.