Over the past few months Tech Charts Global Equity Markets report analyzed the Europe's EURO STOXX BANKING INDEX and discussed the possibility of a sideways consolidation that can be identified as a 7 month-long symmetrical triangle. The index remained in a tight range for the past months. 2017 ended with the Euro Stoxx Banking index testing the lower boundary of its multi-month consolidation and the 200-day (40 week) moving average at 129 levels.
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Dear Tech Charts members,
2017 has been a special year for me. I made several decisions; the most important ones were moving to a new country with my family and launching the Tech Charts membership service. Like with our decisions with trading opportunities, life decisions require the leap of faith. Good or bad, we need to step to the line and take the next opportunity in our life. Without God's blessing and Tech Charts members support this wouldn't have come to fruition. I've taken this challenge and enjoyed every part of it and I look forward continuing to add value to your decision making and learning experience in the field of classical charting principles and technical analysis.
In the beginning of every year I wish health for family members, friends and their loved ones. Tech Charts community has become a family. I wish all of you a healthy New Year.
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2017 was a strong year for Global Equity Markets. In the second quarter of 2017, iShares MSCI All Country World Index ETF broke out to all-time highs. The daily price chart formed a year-long upward trend channel and the steady uptrend resumed between the boundaries of the steep trend channel. Over the past month the ACWI ETF formed a minor low which now acts as a short-term support at 70.80 levels. Both the 20 month-long uptrend and the year-long trend channel are still intact.
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Over the past few weeks I reviewed the UK FTSE 100 index. I believe it is one of the most important long-term opportunity for global equity investors. There are couple of technical developments that I really like about the UK FTSE 100 index chart. First one is that the index cleared its multi-decade long horizontal resistance and reached all-time highs. Stocks or indices that clear long-term resistances and reach all-time highs enter "uncharted territory". Uncharted territory is the path of least resistance. In other words there is no previous price level that the index would find resistance.
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Vale S.A. is a global producer of iron ore and iron ore pellets, key raw materials for steelmaking, and producer of nickel. The Company also produces copper, metallurgical and thermal coal, potash, phosphates and other fertilizer nutrients, manganese ore, ferroalloys, platinum group metals, gold, silver and cobalt. The stock is listed on the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange. It is also listed on the New York Stock Exchange via depository receipts. This interim update features both the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange and NYSE listing.
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Global Equity Markets continue to remain in a steady uptrend with the iShares MSCI All Country World Index ETF trending higher in a year-long trend channel. The ETF is also holding above the steep 19 month-long trend line. At this point, there is no clear chart pattern that would suggest a top reversal. Uptrend is intact with the minor support standing at 69.4 levels.
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After breaking out to all-time highs in the beginning of 2017, UK FTSE 100 Index is still looking for direction as the last several-months price action formed a possible bullish continuation chart pattern. 7 month-long sideways consolidation can be identified as a possible ascending triangle with the lower boundary acting as support at 7,300 and the upper boundary as resistance at 7,600 levels. The upward sloping lower boundary and the horizontal upper boundary gives the chart pattern its bullish bias, suggesting buyers are able to bid the price higher at every pullback. Latest correction not only found support at the lower boundary of the possible ascending triangle but also at the long-term 200 day (40 week) moving average. If the support at 7,300 level holds, we can expect a rebound towards 7,600 levels.
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As you all know one of my favorite chart patterns is a rectangle. A rectangle is a chart pattern with horizontal boundaries. I prefer breakouts from chart patterns with horizontal boundaries when compared with breakouts from diagonal chart patterns. Over the past couple of months the Global Equity Markets report has featured great chart setups that I identified as well-defined rectangles.
The upcoming webinar is dedicated to a thorough discussion on this highly reliable chart pattern.
The XAU is a capitalization-weighted index of thirty precious metal mining companies that has been traded on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange since 1983. As its name suggests it includes both gold and silver mining companies. In order to track gold and silver mining companies performance in an index there are several options available for investors, but the two most watched indices are: the NYSE Arca Gold BUGS (Basket of Unhedged Gold Stocks) Index (called the HUI Index) and Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index (called the XAU Index). Below charts feature the Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index and the NYSE Arca Gold BUGS Index.
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