Monday, November 30, 2009

Dow Jones (DJIA) index chart pattern - Nov 27, '09

The Dow Jones (DJIA) made another attempt to climb away from the important 10360 level, mentioned last week as the barrier to cross for the bull rally to sustain. In a holiday-shortened week, the Dow twice moved above the 10500 level, but Friday's profit booking brought the index down below the 10360 level. It finally closed marginally lower for the week.
The 6 months bar chart pattern of the Dow Jones (DJIA) index isn't looking that different from a week back:-



The bull rally on lower volumes continues as the bulls have managed to brush aside all efforts by the bears to bring the index down. All three EMAs are still moving up and the index is above them.
The technical indicators are looking slightly weaker. The slow stochastic is in the overbought zone, where the %K has moved slightly below the %D. The RSI moved down after touching the overbought zone. The MFI is above the 50% level but moving down. The MACD has moved down a bit and is touching the signal line.
So is it time for the bears to throw in the towel? As per this article, market sentiments are turning overly bullish, which could provide just the contrarian opportunity that the bears could try and exploit. Fundamentals are yet to catch up with a market that has been driven upwards by a flood of liquidity and dollar carry-trade.
Bottomline? The Dow Jones (DJIA) index chart pattern is maintaining the bullish sequence of higher tops and bottoms. Ride the rally, but keep booking partial profits.

(Note: At the time of writing this post, the Dow is marginally up but still below the 10360 level.)


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