U.S. unemployment rate is unchanged at 8.3%. Employers in the U.S. boosted payrolls more than forecast in February, capping the best six month streak of job growth since 2006. Some 1.2 million jobs were created in the last six months, the most since the same period ended May 2006. I’ve been updating the unemployment chart since August 2011 with the […]
I usually try to share daily & weekly price charts on this platform but today I wanted to post an interesting chart pattern Dow Jones Industrial Average might be forming on an hourly chart. When analyzing charts my main time frame is daily scale. I check weekly (one level higher) and 60 minute (one level […]
Rio Tinto Group is an multinational exploration, development, production and processing corporation with headquarters in London, United Kingdom. The company was founded in 1873. It is among the world leaders in the production of many commodities, including aluminium, iron ore, copper, uranium, coal, and diamonds.The company has operations on six continents but is mainly concentrated […]
VIX is the ticker symbol for the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility Index, a popular measure of the implied volatility of S&P 500 index options. Often referred to as the fear index or the fear gauge, it represents one measure of the market’s expectation of stock market volatility over the next 30 day period. […]
In December 2011 and January 2012 I wrote about Soy Meal and the possibility of strong moves that could follow in Soy products. http://techcharts.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/soy-meal-2/ Soy Meal has been forming a perfect text-book long-term symmetrical triangle and in the past two months it has rebounded from the lower boundary of its long-term consolidation range. The rebound started from 270 […]
In the world of finance correlation is a statistical measure of how two securities move in relation to each other. Correlation is computed into what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. Perfect positive correlation (a correlation co-efficient of +1) implies that as one security moves, either up or down, […]
This currency has a special place for me. During my post-graduate studies in Canada, I used to follow it closely as I was converting U.S. dollars to Canadian dollars almost every month. When I decided to move to Canada in 2003 crossrate was at 1.4 levels. 1 USD used to buy 1.4 CAD. It has constantly moved […]
This time is different… Is it really different? The price action on USD/JPY will help us answer this question. A lot has been said and done for Japan, for its economy and for its currency over the past decade. 5 years trend has been downwards on USD/JPY declining from 125 levels to 75 levels. Deflation, earthquake, tsunami, quantitative easing and government intervention… […]
Readers of Tech Charts blog will remember my earlier analysis on Copper.(http://techcharts.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/copper/) On the 5th of January Dr. Copper was the first commodity that signaled RISK ON environment for the first part of 2012. Copper was the first commodity that broke out of its consolidation range (symmetrical triangle) at 355 levels. It was after this breakout […]
This week we have seen some major breakouts. I have analyzed most of them in my previous updates. Commodities index had a strong run and broke out of its 6 month-long consolidation range. I have mentioned that this could be an inverted Head & Shoulder continuation pattern. It looks like this pattern is now confirmed after the strong […]
