What’s Up, What’s Down: Gold Gives a Buy Signal
Comments for Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Looking Ahead to Today by Reflecting Back at Monday’s Price Action
FINANCIALS:
Higher closes yesterday for the Eurodollar and notes but lower for the bonds but no changes technically. The Eurodollars are still in a support area closing on the same contract high price for the third time. The bonds and notes continue to look lower overall with the former in a small BEAR PENNANT. Except for ‘flight to quality’ I can’t see why people would want to be long the financials with interest rates at or near rock bottom and the indices still in up-trends at this time! I hold sell signals for bonds and notes. Please feel free to contact me for details.
METALS:
Higher to sharply higher settlements Monday for copper, gold, silver and platinum. Copper continues to look higher with a new recent high and close( highest high and close since 2008) again while platinum made a new CONTRACT HIGH AND CLOSE. Gold gave me a BUY SIGNAL but silver still looks lower in the short-term making lower lows and highs since the middle of December.
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Rick Alexander has been a broker and analyst in the futures business for over thirty years. He is a Vice-President for Sales and Trading at the Zaner Group (www.zaner.com) a Chicago-based futures brokerage firm. If you would like a free booklet explaining the charts mentioned above, email Rick at ralexander@zaner.com.
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