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Waiting Silver Out

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A couple of weeks back, when I went ga-ga over silver, it was my intent to get long in a medium way, get out, wait for a meaningful pullback, and then REALLY get back in, bigger than ever.

Well, parts one and two went all right. I did indeed get long in a medium way, and I got out with nice profits (arrow). I felt pretty clever for a few hours, but as you can see, silver brushed itself off and climbed yet again, so I was calling myself all kinds of creative names yesterday. As of this moment, with /SI down 1.4%, I don’t feel quite so bad.

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Three Rising Wedges Update

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I’ve started to change on shorter term charts to using SPY rather than SPX, QQQ rather than NDX and DIA rather than Dow as I’ve got the impression that would be more useful for most people. Feedback very welcome if anyone has a view on this.

I was saying on Thursday last week that I wasn’t expecting to see anything particularly impressive on the downside, but there were three decent rising wedges from the August lows on SPX, NDX and Dow that I’ve been watching, and a couple of short term double tops that might play out. That’s still mostly the case so I thought I’d do a quick update post on that today.

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Proof Of Life

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I was looking at this rising wedge on SPX posted on twitter earlier this week by someone with the comment that the break above this week is a bearish overthrow that would likely precede a break down from the wedge and then a likely 38.2% to 61.8% retracement of the wedge. Obviously I’ve been posting that wedge and looking at it every day in my premarket videos for weeks, and it is a very decent quality pattern, but I’m doubtful.

If we were going to see that retracement happen, then the obvious time to do that would have been over the last four weeks or so, in the obvious bearish window into late October. That didn’t happen, so unless we see some evidence that the bears are still in the game, I’m going to remain doubtful.

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