I'll forego doing what everyone else is doing – – chattering about the jobs report – – and share with you something of great interest to me right now. Voila:
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Exxon and the Cubes?
Our Parisian friend-of-Slope, ETF Corner's Serge, sent me another one of his famous analogs today. I don't think I've ever met anyone with such a good "eye" for these things. I present it to you forthwith:
The Beauty Of Symmetry (by MacroStory.com)
There are no other words to describe the symmetry between these two chart patterns than simply beautiful.
I purposely left the scale and dates off the charts as to not distract your eyes. It is simply too powerful to ignore yet that is what many have done, self included over the past two weeks as the 200MA blurred our vision. A somewhat meaningless number took our eyes off the pattern playing out before us.
Again as to not distract your eyes I color coded three distinct phases (phase 1 in orange, phase 2 in purple and phase 3 in blue). Notice the symmetry once again. But to me what is most powerful at this very moment is the position of the last few candles and the moving averages.
2008 versus 2011 Redux
Revisiting the 1937-1942 Analog
Long-term readers know that I was, at one point, quite obsessed with the notion that we were repeating what was seen from 1937-1942 with respect to the market from 2007 to about 2014. The analog disappointed me enough times that I stopped looking at it.
Last night, however, my doppelganger and Parisian friend Serge sent me this portion of the analog comparing the late 1930s with present market activity. Serge has an amazing eye for analogs, and this one merits attention:
