Looking at the three month chart for the HUI you can see the internal structure of the blue expanding triangle that is still building out. What’s most important right now is the potential fourth reversal point is playing out as I had hoped it would. The HUI made five attempts to breakout above the top of the trading range around the 140 area but couldn’t succeed. The next area of support will be the neckline or the top rail of the 5 point rectangle reversal pattern at 117.70, red numbers. Expanding patterns are some of the hardest patterns to figure out as the price action becomes more volatile with each swing. So far no backtest to the double top trendline which would be at 129.15. The bottom line is that it’s nice to see a reversal pattern at the fourth reversal point.

An expanding triangle is how a Diamond pattern begins forming. Below is a 2 hour chart which shows the potential Diamond pattern as the possible consolidation pattern. The fourth reversal point now stands out as a double top reversal pattern. Note the smaller reversal patterns that formed within the five month blue triangle consolidation pattern. The price action shows how the HUI broke below the bottom rail of the blue triangle, red circle. The bulls had just enough energy to pop up off the bottom rail one last time backtesting the neckline before finally breaking out with a breakout gap. We got confirmation with the backtest. This price action is called the pop and drop.

The 2 1/2 year daily chart below shows the HUI’s two previous consolidation patterns. Is our possible current fourth reversal point the start of the next impulse move down which will take the HUI down to new bear market lows? This is how they start. Also note the longer term indicators have crossed to the downside, red circles.

The weekly chart for the HUI shows it hit the inside solid top rail of the double downtrend channel this week and reversed sharply to the downside to close the week just a penny of above the low.

The important moving averages for the daily gold chart below shows the red 300 day ma held resistance this week.

The daily chart for gold shows the potential bear flag that maybe forming. After being strongly tested the brown shaded support and resistance zone has held resistance with today’s price action closing on the black dashed down slopping trendline which was the top rail of the old triangle. The first positive would be to see gold close below that old dashed trendline and then break below the bottom rail of the potential bear flag. One step at a time.

Just like the HUI gold hit the top rail of its major parallel downtrend channel this week also. The two small red consolidation patterns strongly suggest the 1180 area is an important area of resistance. Normally the price action will cut cleanly between the two patterns but gold has been a little sloppy in this respect.

The long term weekly chart for gold shows the two potential consolidation patterns that I view as a halfway pattern to the downside. The bottom rail of the sloppy triangle is irrelevant if we use the impulse method, blue arrows, that measures a price objective down to  855. I still haven’t given up on the bearish falling wedge as the halfway pattern. Depending on exactly where gold breaks below the bottom solid rail the breakout to breakout method gives us a price objective down to 845.

Another long term weekly chart for gold shows the reverse symmetry taking place. What happened on the left side of the chart has a direct impact on the right side of the chart as shown by the neckline extension and support and resistance lines. The blue circle shows the previous H&S consolidation pattern with the potential red bear flag forming between reverse symmetry lines #1 an #2.

The very long term monthly chart for gold shows it created an expanding rising wedge as its bull market. The breakout and backtest to the bottom black rail created the right shoulder. The H&S consolidation pattern that formed during the 2008 crash is responsible for the neckline and the height for the left and right shoulder on our current possible massive H&S top. Note how the 2008 H&S neckline extended all the way to the right hand side of the chart, neckline extension rail, is also the neckline of the massive H&S top.

Sir Fullgoldcrown accidentally posted this daily 5 point bearish rising wedge reversal pattern on the main site by mistake a couple of days ago. As this is a reversal pattern the uptrend that has been in place since the August is now over.

I’ve been showing this weekly chart for silver which shows the reverse symmetry H&S patterns on each side of the chart. Silver has been strongly backtesting the neckline on the right hand side of the chart for the last month or so at 15.85. It’s been a tough fight but it looks the bears may now be back in charge as silver closed below the neckline this week.

Just like the HUI and gold, silver also has a parallel downtrend channel. You can see how critical this backtest is to the neckline on the right side of the chart. This is about as low a risk entry point that you can get to short silver at 15.85.

Earlier I showed you gold’s massive H&S top with the 2008 H&S neckline extension rail creating the neckline for gold’s massive H&S top. It shouldn’t be surprising that silver is also showing a similar massive H&S top. Just like gold the height for the massive H&S top’s left and right shoulders is taken from the angle of the neckline, neckline symmetry rail. Have a great weekend. All the best…Rambus

It finally looks like a major inflection point is getting very close to resolving itself in many different areas of the markets. The US dollar is the key driver of this inflection point which is starting to breakout from a nearly eight month bullish falling wedge consolidation pattern. This afternoon the US dollar began a strong rally that is somewhat unusual during the afternoon hours unless it is Fed Day  where anything goes . The daily chart below now shows today’s bar clearly above the top rail of the bullish falling wedge. It’s still possible that we could see a backtest to the top rail at 97.12 before the next impulse move up begins in earnest.

There are some positive developments in regards to the US dollar on the daily chart below. First there are four completed reversal points in the blue bullish falling wedge. This eight month consolidation pattern corrected 38% of the first big impulse leg up as shown by the red arrows. The 20 day ema has just recently crossed above the 50 day ema giving a buy signal. The US dollar is now trading well above its 200 dma which shows the long term nature of this bull market.

The daily line chart for the US dollar shows some nice Chartology which shows the breakout of the top rail of the black triangle consolidation complete with a small backtest. The breakout also took out the neckline extension rail which had been holding resistance.

The weekly chart shows the nice big bullish falling wedge which I’m looking at as a halfway pattern to the upside.

The next chart is a long term combo chart with the US dollar on top and gold on the bottom. The next area of possible resistance could be the 108.60 area which was the high made back in 2002 if the reverse symmetry keeps playing out. Gold has been finding resistance at the S&R line around the 1180 area.

The next long term 30 year monthly chart for the US dollar shows the two fractal bases, big base #1 and big base #2. Big base #1 had enough energy to send the US dollar all the way up to the 120 area before it topped out.

Below is the 40 year chart for the dollar which shows the massive bullish falling wedge which broke out eight months ago. The top rail has held support like a rock during the backtesting process. This is only speculation on my part right now but the price objective of a rising or falling wedge is usually the first reversal point within the wedge itself. Here you can see the first reversal point occurred back in 1985 around the 165 area. Only time will tell us what lies ahead for the US dollar.

Lets look at one last chart for the US dollar which is the monthly candlestick chart. If the dollar can close out the month on a strong note it will have completed its second white candlestick which will help confirm a possible new impulse move is just beginning.

Next lets look at the daily chart for the euro which makes up the biggest chunk of the US dollar. Generally the euro and the US dollar will have similar chart patterns that tend to breakout at the same time. The daily chart below shows the euro breaking down below the bottom rail of the black bear flag in sync with the US dollars breakout of its bullish falling wedge.

The very long term monthly chart below shows how the euro may  play out if the red bear flag works out as a halfway pattern in concert with the US dollar’s bullish falling wedge which I showed you earlier on the charts above. As you can see the euro has been in a confined downtrend channel since 2008. I’ve seen many cases when a confined channel breaks there can be an equal channel that forms below it, in this case. If that were to happen the bottom rail of the lower channel would come at the all time lows made back in 2000 at 82.15 or so as shown by the black rectangles used as measuring sticks.

Below is another long term look at the euro which shows a double H&S top in place with the red bear flag being the right shoulder of neckline #2. This massive H&S top has a price objective down to the 84.90 area which is pretty close to its all time low.

The yen is also an important component of the US dollar. This long term weekly chart shows its massive H&S top we’ve been following very closely since the first red triangle formed inside of the blue bearish falling wedge which created the right shoulder. Since that breakout move from the massive H&S top the yen has been building out the red expanding flat top triangle as its next consolidation pattern.

The weekly chart for the $XSF shows it has formed a H&S consolidation pattern just below the bottom rail of the blue bear flag. As you can see the Swiss Franc has broken below its neckline this week.

The weekly chart for the $CAD shows it to has a massive H&S top and is currently trading below its 2009 low after breaking down from a small H&S consolidation pattern.

Below is another way to look at the $CAD which shows a huge double top. The price action has broken down below the double bottom trendline and has just recently backtested it from below at .78.

This next chart I have not shown in awhile in which I overlaid gold on top of the $XEU. They tend to move together, in general, so if the $XEU is getting ready to move lower then gold should follow along for the ride, in general.

This last chart for the currencies is a weekly line chart I have not shown in some time but it’s now more relevant than ever. This is a comparison chart in which I overlaid gold on top of the US dollar. As you can the US dollar is breaking out from the blue triangle while gold is hitting resistance at the down slopping arrow. For years I’ve been waiting for these two to finally crossover each other similar to what they did in 2006 but only in the opposite direction.

Before I finish the Wednesday Report I would like to show you a couple of commodities indexes that really took it on the chin the last time the US dollar broke out to the upside. The CRB index broke out of a blue bearish rising wedge last Friday and is attempting to backtest the bottom rail from below. This is a critical backtest taking place right here and now.

After breaking down from the black triangle reversal pattern the CRB index has been creating one consolidation pattern below the next. You can see how our current bearish rising wedge fits into the bigger picture. Once the backtesting process is finished I expect to see a similar move between the Diamond consolidation pattern and our current bearish rising wedge.

The further we go out in time the more interesting the price action looks. Below is a monthly chart for the CRB index which shows it has reached its H&S price objective at 205. Keep in mind this is a minimum price objective. Note how the price action is trading below the brown shaded S&R zone. This can’t be good if the US dollar is getting ready to breakout to the upside.

Since I’m running out of time I would like to show you one last chart for the CRB index which I’ve only shown you one time before. Keep in mind when you look at this 60 year chart all the long term currencies charts we looked at above like the euro which shows it has a long ways to fall to reach its price objectives. This is one of those WHAT IF charts. What if the CRB index breaks below the brown shade support and resistance zone? Notice the near vertical move up in the early 1970’s. If the CRB breaks below the brown shaded S&R zone there is not much in the way of support until the all time low is hit under 100 or so. This would be an ideal place to see some reverse symmetry to the downside as show by the red arrows.

These charts above shows you we are really at a very important inflection point that hopefully is getting ready to resolve its self very soon. All the best…Rambus

GDM has finally broken below the unbalanced H&S top or double top. It’s not important what you call the price action above the neckline it’s the neckline itself that is most important with the many touches on it.

I have some free time tonight and the better part of the day tomorrow to post a few charts before I have to catch my flight home on Tuesday. I just want to thank you again for you patience.

Lets take a quick look at the daily INDU chart I posted on Wednesday that now shows the breakout of the rounding top trendline. So far so good.

Below is another daily chart which shows the horizontal support and resistance lines. Currently the 17,600 S&R line may act as short term resistance to allow the INDU to catch its breath before moving higher. As you can see there was a breakout of a small red bullish rising wedge which took out the top rail to the upside last Thursday. That little red bullish rising wedge formed just below the rounding top trendline we looked at on the chart above which is also bullish. Friday’s price action gapped above the 200 dma also. We had a bullish cross of the 20 ema and 50 ema last week as well. There is a lot of positive price action on this chart below.

The weekly chart for the INDU shows the 2009 uptrend channel we looked at when it was testing the bottom rail during the August low. This chart is one of the reasons I’ve remained bullish during this correction, above the bottom trendline is bullish and below is bearish. Outside of the August low this uptrend channel really shows a beautiful bull market.

Another big reason I’ve remained bullish on the stock markets is the monthly chart for the INDU, The Jaws of Life, chart. I know alot of folks have given up on this massive consolidation pattern but until the INDU closes below that very important top trendline, on a monthly closing basis, I have to respect the potential of this consolidation pattern.The top rail was strongly backtested during the August low but it held support again. Depending on what the INDU does this next week it could be one of the biggest monthly gains since the bull market began in 2009.

As you know I’ve been showing you a lot of very long term monthly charts for many individual stocks that are also showing massive consolidation patterns. Below is the $BTK, biotechnology index, which shows you a perfect example of what this pattern looks like. The $BTK built out a massive 9 year flat top or ascending triangle which broke to the upside in late 2009 when everything else was bottoming. The 2009 low, which was the fourth reversal point, hardly shows up on this chart which shows us its relative strong performance vs most of different sectors in the stock markets at that time. The blue arrows measures the price objective using the blue triangle as a halfway pattern. As you can see that price objective has been met at 4356. Since the price objective has been met this tells us the $BTK may now under preform some of the weaker areas of the markets as money rotates into some of the lagging sectors.

Below is a long term quarterly chart that compares the $NDX to the $BTK going back 30 years or so. They both topped out together in 2000 and bottomed together in 2002 which is what you would expect. Now lets focus in on the rally out of the 2009 crash low. This is the point where the biotech stocks really started to outperform the big tech stocks. As you can see the $BTK broke to new all time highs in 2009 while the $NDX was just bouncing off of its bottom. Since that point they both have been in a strong bull market but the big difference is that the $NDX is now just reaching its all time highs. This is an old chart but the red circle now shows the $NDX is trading into new all time highs using a quarterly line chart. Again I expect both of these sectors to rise but this time the $NDX, big cap tech stocks, will out perform the biotech stocks on a relative basis. I believe the bull market will continue higher as capital rotates into the under performing sectors like the semiconductors and networking stocks. Other under performing sectors should also benefit from this move. This is how a bull market lives on. At some point the bull will die but not before most of the different sectors have their own individual bull market.

Looking at a weekly chart for the $NWX, networking index, it’s shows the price action breaking out of a bullish expanding falling wedge last week.

The monthly chart for the $NWX shows a very bullish setup. Note the 2 blue bullish expanding falling wedges that formed on the weekly chart above. What makes the setup so bullish is that one of the bullish expanding falling wedges formed below the massive 12 year H&S bottom neckline and the other is forming above that massive neckline. With that massive base completing we could very well see some reverse symmetry to the upside as shown by the red arrows. Above the neckline at 345 is bullish and below is bearish which marks a great line in the sand.

The long term monthly chart for the $SOX, semiconductor index, shows it broke out of a massive black 10 year bullish falling wedge in late 2010 or so. Note the blue triangle that formed right on the top rail of that 10 year black bullish falling wedge which was a bullish setup. The current support and resistance line comes in at 545 which was the top rail of the blue 5 point triangle reversal pattern that formed between 2004 and 2007. This chart shows some nice Chartology with the different technical formation. The two blue triangles shows a nice clean breakout with an equally clean backtest. Once the $SOX broke above the black dashed S&R line at 545 it has held support twice now. I know many are looking at the current price action as a possible H&S top but the individual stocks that make up this index don’t show a bearish setup.

The long term monthly chart for INTC shows its massive double headed 14 year H&S consolidation pattern. Note the little red bullish expanding falling wedge that has formed right on top of the neckline which is a bullish setup.

I’ve been showing you this monthly chart for Mr. Softy for several years now. It built out a beautiful 12 year blue bullish falling wedge. Note the two small red consolidation patterns that formed one below the top rail and one above the top rail of the bullish falling wedge. Last week MSFT broke out of a blue rectangle consolidation pattern to the upside.

This weekly chart for MSFT shows all the consolidation patterns that have formed since its 2009 crash low including the breakout of the blue rectangle consolidation pattern last week.

I have many more charts to show you in regards to the massive consolidation patterns that have shown up on a lot of the old glory day tech stocks. Is history going to repeat again? Stay tuned. All the best…Rambus

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Below is the daily chart for the GDM we’ve been following for sometime now which is showing the potential trading range the GDM has been in since the first reversal point was put in back in late July of this year. Today the GDM spiked above the top rail of the potential rectangle consolidation pattern and has quickly reversed back down inside the rectangle. Today could very well show a false breakout to the upside, red circle, that matches the false breakout to the downside in September bottom red circle. I call these, false symmetry breakouts as they are the same height.

This next daily chart for the GDM shows the top and bottom brown shaded support and resistance zones. Today the GDX hit the top of the upper S&R zone at 455. The 455 line is taken from the low made last November which started the big triangle / H&S consolidation patterns which broke down in June of this year and has led to our most recent area of consolidation which is looking like a rectangle at this point.

This daily chart for the GDM shows the BB bands which the GDM spike above this morning and the fib retrace which so far has held resistance between the 38% and 50% of the last move down as shown by the red arrows.

I’ve shown you this potential ping pong move on the monthly chart for the GDM which is between the 2008 crash low and the previous low around the 455 area. It’s basically caught between support and resistance.

Based on the charts above I’m going to take an initial position in DUST and buy 1500 shares at the market at 14.36 using a closing price above 463 on the GDM chart as my sell/stop. This trade is based on the GDM chart and not the DUST chart.

Lets get right to the charts today as there is so much to cover. Starting with the daily gold chart you can see the blue triangle pattern we’ve been watching now for several weeks or so. Last Thursday gold closed right on the bottom rail which I knew was an inflection point where it could go either way. When I went to bed Thursday night I knew Friday was going to be either a very good day or a very bad day depending on what gold did in the morning. As you can see on the chart below gold dipped slightly below the bottom blue rail and then reversed direction to the upside. That last touch of the bottom blue rail confirmed the 4th reversal point was complete. The rally on Friday is now the beginning of the 5th reversal point which will make the blue triangle a reversal pattern instead of a consolidation pattern if it breaks out above the top blue rail. As I have stated many times an even number of reversal points creates a consolidation pattern and an odd number of reversal point makes a reversal pattern. The fifth reversal point will be completed if the top blue rail gets hit. That will be another inflection point where gold can breakout and continue to rally or reverse back down creating the 6th reversal point. It looks like the 1152 area will be the place to watch as the apex of the much bigger black triangle consolidation pattern and the top rail of the blue triangle come together. If gold breaks out above the top rail of the blue triangle the measured move would be up to the 1201 area as shown by the blue arrows. The bottom line is gold is still chopping around in the blue triangle which is an indecision area where the bulls and the bears are fighting it out for dominance. Keep in mind this is only a battle within the bear market war.

Below is another daily chart that shows if gold does indeed takes out the top rail of the blue triangle, that has a price objective up to the 1200 area, it’s possible that gold may form a bigger bear flag which would still be bearish. Note the brown shaded support and resistance zone that is just overhead between 1160 and 1175 that gold will have to take out to reach the 1200 area. I know there are a lot of folks getting bullish on gold right now. If and that’s a big IF, if gold can rally straight up slicing right through the brown shaded S&R zone and close somewhere in the vicinity of the previous highs made at 1225 that would be showing considerable strength and would be the first step in forming a possible inverse H&S bottom. At this point that is the most unlikely scenario but one to watch.

Below is a 2 1/2 year daily line chart for gold which shows the big picture with the bearish falling wedge with the blue triangle forming right on the bottom black rail. The last pattern that formed inside the big falling wedge was a H&S consolidation pattern that led to the initial breakout of the black falling wedge. Gold has backtested the neckline twice so far from below at the 1155 area which so far has held resistance.

This weekly linear scale chart we’ve been following for a very long time now which shows the parallel downtrend channel gold has been in since topping out four years ago in 2011. For me this is the most important chart to keep a close eye on. I’ve made one slight adjustment on this chart and that is to the bottom rail of the blue two plus year bearish falling wedge.  The reason I’ve done that is because of the two smaller red consolidation patterns that have formed just below the top rail of the black parallel downtrend channel. By making the bottom rail of the 2 plus year consolidation pattern horizontal you can see how the two small red consolidation patterns form one above and our current red triangle is forming just below that important bottom rail of the blue  now six point descending triangle at 1155 or so. I will say it again so please don’t get mad at me. If you see a smaller consolidation pattern form just above, just below, right on top or one on top and one below an important trendline that is usually a bearish setup in this case. If gold was in a bull market it would be a bullish setup. So by making the bottom rail of the large blue falling wedge horizontal we still have 6 reversal points with the bottom rail being a little sloppy which can happen with very large patterns. If you study the area between the two small red consolidation patterns you will see how the high in our current red triangle backtested the bottom blue rail of the flat bottom triangle or descending triangle, at 1175, which is by nature a bearish pattern because of the lower highs at each reversal point. The small red triangle is the same triangle I showed you on the first daily chart for gold. To say this is critical resistance at 1155 or so is an understatement.

Below is a close up look at the four year parallel downtrend for gold which shows the blue flat bottom triangle consolidation pattern as a halfway pattern to the downside as shown by the blue arrows. The price objective still remains the same using the impulse method as shown by the blue arrows. Blue arrows #1 measures the first impulse move down and the blue arrows with the number #2 measures the second impulse move down which is the 2008 crash low at 685. Using the horizontal bottom rail now for the big blue consolidation pattern the breakout to breakout method gives us a higher price objective up to the 828 area. The 65 week moving average now comes in at 1200.

This next chart is a very long term monthly chart for gold which I use the 10 month ema to look for support and resistance. As you can see it did a beautiful job of nailing the bottoms during the bull market years except for the 2008 crash. It has done a pretty good job during our bear market at showing us resistance. There are just two months where the price action closed above the 10 month ema and that was during the formation of the blue triangle consolidation pattern. If you look real close you can see that the highs in August and September touched the 10 month ema and declined. The 10 month ema now comes in at 1160 which is now below the bottom rail of the blue triangle.

Below is a long term weekly log scale chart for gold which shows how the bull market that began in 2000 could still be intact if the big four year bullish expanding falling wedge plays out. The low would be where ever the bottom black rail is hit which right now is around 800 but its dropping so the longer it takes the lower the ultimate price objective. Note the smaller black bullish expanding falling wedge which created the consolidation area for the 2008 crash low. It had six complete reversal points before it was finished developing. Note the breakout and backtest which took roughly 12 weeks to complete before the final leg up to the all time high began in earnest. Also note that a six point red triangle that formed as part of the breaking out and backtesting process on top of the all important top rail of the bullish black expanding falling wedge. Our current small red triangle is forming just below the all important bottom rail of the two plus years  blue flat bottom triangle consolidation pattern. If you look at the first chart of this post you will see a closeup view of the small triangle consolidation pattern that is possibly working on its sixth reversal point if the top rail holds resistance.

Now lets take a look at a daily chart for silver which shows the previous consolidation pattern was a blue four point triangle. So far silver has backtested the bottom blue rail several different times and it maybe getting ready to do it again. A backtest would come in around the 15.75 area. I’ve also been showing this area as a H&S consolidation pattern. The main thing to focus in on is the bottom rail as that is our line in the sand whether it’s a neckline or the bottom rail of a triangle consolidation pattern. I could make a case that the area trading below the bottom rail of the blue triangle could be an inverse H&S bottom. If that is the case then silver will have to break above the bottom rail of the blue triangle. Until that happens, above the bottom rail is positive and below is negative.

The next chart for silver is a daily line chart that shows the blue triangle and the H&S consolidation pattern that has formed just below the bottom rail with a backtest price objective up to 15.75 or so.

Below is a long term weekly chart for silver which shows us it too has a parallel downtrend channel that has formed since it put in its bull market high in April of 2011. This chart I’m showing our latest consolidation pattern as the H&S consolidation pattern that has formed just below the bottom rail of the previous blue triangle. This chart has classic Chartology written all over it. You can see the 2008 crash low ended up being just the head of a big H&S consolidation pattern. Note the little red triangle that formed just below the neckline which led to the vertical move up into its bull market top at 50 or so. The little red expanding triangle, that formed right in the middle of that huge impulse move up, signaled the halfway point which measured up to 50.29.  The big H&S consolidation pattern measured up to 45.57 which gave me a nice target to look for. Compare how much easier the price action was to trade during the bull market compared to our current bear market. The rally out of the 2008 crash low was punctuated by several small consolidation patterns whereas the bear market has consisted of big consolidation patterns that took a long time to show their hand. When I look at this weekly chart it’s very hard to find anything bullish. The very first thing I would need to see is for silver to trade above the neckline at 15.75 and then above the top rail of the downtrend channel. If silver can do that I will have no problem at all being bullish again like I was during the bull market years.

The last chart we’ll look at for silver is the long term monthly look that shows a nice symmetrical H&S top as shown by the neckline symmetry rail. The price objective for that massive H&S top is down to the brown shaded S&R zone at the bottom of the chart. I know it seems impossible but that’s what the Chartology is strongly suggesting. What will be the fundamental reason for that is anybodies guess. We’ll know well after the fact why silver and the rest of the precious metals complex were so weak but right now all I can show you is the charts that are telling us this sector is in very bad shape even after four years of a bear market.

Lets look at one last chart for tonight which will be the weekly look at Platinum. It tends to march to its own drummer but its considered a precious metal along with an industrial metal similar to silver. Like almost all commodities it topped out in 2011 and then formed its first consolidation pattern which is the black three year rectangle. After breaking out of the big black rectangle Platinum formed a smaller blue rectangle just below the bottom rail of the big rectangle. Next Platinum formed a small red triangle just below the bottom rail of the small blue rectangle. Its taken alot of chopping around to gain ground to the downside but as you can see last weeks bar was pretty long as it broke to multi year lows. It appears to be reversing symmetry to the downside. How it went up in the bull market years is how its coming back down in the bear market years.

This is going to be a very interesting week for the precious metals complex as a lot of important areas of resistance are getting close to being tested. How this testing goes will tell us a lot of how strong the PM bulls are at this time. If they’re are for real then they will show us by taking out some of the overhead resistance. Until they can do that I have to respect the bear market that has been in place for well over four years now. All the best…Rambus

Below is the long term daily chart we’ve been following for SLV which shows the brown shaded S&R zone or neckline at the14.80 area as the backtest  zone. Today’s price action also left a gap on the opening which most likely get filled as some point.

The weekly chart for SLV shows the H&S consolidation pattern forming just below the bottom rail of the blue triangle consolidation pattern. The 50 week ma now comes in at 15.37 which has done a good job of holding resistance over the last several years.

The long term monthly chart for SLV shows the small neckline starting its fourth month of holding resistance after the price action broke through it. So far the neckline has done its job reversing its role from what had been support to now resistance. A break above the 14.80 resistance line would be a feather in the bulls cap. Again another critical area to watch.

Hi Catherine. Nice talking to you again.

How I got the handle Rambus.

Actually Rambus was a chip stock I traded back in the 1990’s tech bubble. There were a lot of new technology stocks that were being born back then such as Amazon, E Bay and Cisco just to name a few. Rambus was one of the most volatile stocks at that time and  would go up and split only to go up and split again. They were in the semi conductor area that was really hot and supposedly had a patent on a particular chip that was going to make them a fortune.

The last time I traded Rambus was during the first part of 2000 when the tech bubble was peaking out. It was over $200 a share as were many tech stocks back then. The last time it split was a four for one stock split which meant I now had four times as many shares as before. It started trading in the low 50’s but what happened next was what every trader dreams of.

Within the next two months Rambus was already trading back up to about the 135 area when I called my broker telling him to put a sell/stop in at 123 just in case it was running out of gas. I also watching a chart on the COMPQ that was suggesting that it was time for a pause at a minimum or maybe even a top of some kind may start forming. A couple of weeks later my sell/stop was hit at 123 and the rest they say is history.

That was a life changing trade for me that basically let me retire in my late forties. I still remember asking my wife if she was ready to build our dream house on our forty acres and she said, I’m paraphrasing here, “are you kidding me?” I said “nope.” Six months later we moved into our brand new house complete with all new furnishings. That is the reason I use Rambus as my handle as it was very good to me.

Starting Rambus Chartology.

After trading the greatest bull market in history it was hard finding new stocks to trade as most of the tech stocks crashed and burned during the ensuing bear market. I remember it was in the spring of 2002 when I stumbled upon the bull market in the precious metals complex. Up to that point I didn’t know a junior precious metals stock from a big cap precious metals stock as they were so far off my radar screen. One day I came across a long term weekly chart for gold which was showing a big and beautiful inverse H&S bottom forming which got my attention.

From that point on I started studying and reading everything I could on the precious metals complex. I learned there were many juniors that could have big moves when the time was right which was right up my alley. I had found a new bull market to trade.

Back in 2006 I found a free primary gold website where posters were expressing their ideas on gold, silver and the precious metals stocks. I followed their posts for a couple of months before I decided to post my first chart which I still remember was a very long term monthly chart for silver which was very bullish at the time.

I got a few comments and started posting fairly regularly. I met a poster there by the handle of Fullgoldcrown who was probably the biggest goldbug I had ever know up to that point. He would often compliment my charts because they were always very bullish on the precious metals sector so we formed an online friendship.

As that website was a gold only website you couldn’t post charts on the stock markets or anything else if it didn’t pertain to the precious metals complex. If you did post on something other than the PM complex you would find your post deleted.

About 25 or 30 members decided to go out on their own and start a free-gold website called Goldtent / Posters Paradise. This new free website was much more open to the stock markets and other techniques of trading. They asked me if I would like to join and I said yes because I was always open to new ideas of trading as there are many different methods to trade the markets.

Everything was good until I started noticing a potential H&S top that was forming on the HUI back in 2007. Keep in mind the bull market in the precious metals complex was going full throttle to the upside at that time. When I started posting the possibility of a H&S top forming I started getting a lot of negative feedback to put in lightly.

Fullgoldcrown who I considered my friend could not believe I would post something negative about gold and silver. So at that point I decided to just back off and do just an occasional post because I knew most of the members were staunch goldbugs and they didn’t want to hear what the charts maybe showing.

As it turned out that H&S top did play out and the HUI dropped form 520 to 150 in a matter of about five months. The precious metals stocks crashed beyond anyone’s comprehension when it was all said and done. From that point I just kept to myself and pretty much just did my own thing.

A couple of times Fullgoldcrown would send me an email asking if I would be interested in starting a new website and I politely declined because I knew it would take 110% of my time and I was happy just the way things were.

Then in 2011 my father passed away unexpectedly and I missed our conversations and discussions we had on the stock markets and the economy. Even tho we rarely agreed on the markets I missed having some one to really talk about where the stock markets might go or what shape the economy was in.

So in July of 2011 I emailed Fullgoldcrown to see if his offer still stood on wanting to start a new website. He said “yes lets do this.” He said he knew a computer wizard named Todd that could build the website from scratch but he needed a couple of months to work on the design. In October of 2011 Rambus Chartology was born. We had no expectations on what would happen when we opened the door but here its four years later and our door is still open.

What do we offer at Rambus Chartology.

If you’re interested in charts we have a ton of charts ranging from the stock markets to the precious metals complex, currencies or just about anything that can be charted we have it. We also have a forum where you can post your ideas on any market or trading discipline that you use. Everyone is shown respect even if you’re a novice which many of our members are.

We also have many members that are very good at trading the markets and post their views at the forum. We have folks that are into cycles, Elliot Wave Gann theory and just about any trading discipline you can think of. There are members from all walks of life and from all over the world which I didn’t expect when we opened up our website at Rambus Chartology. The world wide web has really opened up the door for the little guy.

We have a five day free trial period where you can come in and look around and decide for yourself if our website suits your needs.

Fullgoldcrown came up with a motto that reads, “give a man a chart and he may prosper for a day, but teach him to chart and he will prosper for a lifetime.”

Behind the scenes we have Fullgoldcrown who is our public relations guy that will help you get on the site if you’re having problems, set you up with a password or anything else if you need help.

Todd is our computer wizard that built our website from scratch writing his own codes. He’s one of those guys that you don’t hear much about but you know he’s working behind the scenes taking care of business.

How did I learn technical analysis.

I first became interested in the stock market way back in 1974 when I returned home from overseas. My father who grew up during the great depression was always very conservative with his money and had opened up a trading account with Merill Lynch. I was shocked to say the least. While I was overseas there was the infamous oil embargo that I missed.

My father using basically a fundamental approach to the stock market bought American Motors because he thought everyone was going to buy smaller cars based on the price of oil. I remember he bought American Motors around 12 or 13 dollars a share. From the point at which he bought American Motors the stock just kept going down lower and lower until he lost over half of his investment. American Motors eventually went bankrupt I believe and the stock never got back up to where my father originally bought in. That was his one and only time he ever invested in the stock market.

By all rights what happened to my father should have steered me away from the stock markets but it had just the opposite affect on me. I could see way back then the potential the markets could have on someone either good or bad.

I knew  absolutely nothing about the markets so I began the education phase of learning as much as I could on how the stock markets worked. I bought my first book on the stock market and the authors trading system was based on watching the ticker tape looking for big blocks of shares that would show him if a stock was under accumulation or distribution. That’s the way most of the short term traders did it back then, watching the ticker tape.

I didn’t really get much out of his trading system but his book had some charts in it that really fascinated me. I began to look for books with charts in them and I stumbled across a book by Edwards & McGee on Technical Analysis of Stock Trends. For me personally that book just made sense.

Back in those days charts were very hard to come by so I decided to start making my own charts. I was one of those guys with a sheet of graph paper, a pencil and a ruler.  I would put five bars to a square which would equal one weeks worth of price action. I charted 100 stocks a day using the quotes from the Wall Street Journal. It took me about an hour and a half a day to chart those 100 stocks. It was labor intensive compared to what we have now.

When the 1990’s arrived so did alot of different technologies and especially  charting services. Technology really opened up the door for the little guy. Prices were no longer delayed by 20 minutes. Real time quotes became a reality and they also stopped using fraction and went to decimals.

The very first charting service I subscribed to I had to have a six foot satellite dish to get real time quotes and charts. My computer was running on DOS back then which seems like an eternity ago.

With that satellite dish I could now get monthly, weekly, daily and minute charts with one click of a button. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. That was a real breakthrough in charting for me. I could start looking for all the different chart patterns, on different time frames, that I had been studying for so many years in what seemed like slow motion compared to my new 1990’s high tech satellite dish. From that point on charting really took off for me and I couldn’t think of any other trading discipline I wanted to learn and understand more than looking for patterns on a chart.

The indicators.

First and foremost I look for chart patterns. When I think I may have found something that looks promising I will look at just a handful of indicators such as the RSI, MACD and stochastics just to give me a feel if the stock maybe overbought or oversold. Using too many different indicators can get a bit confusing and cloud ones thinking. Most technicians generally have their own set of favorite indicators they like to use based on how they interpret the markets. It’s really a personal thing and what you get comfortable with.

I also like to look at several different moving averages as they can tell you alot about a trend. The 20 day ema and the 50 day ema are my two favorite moving averages to look at from a short to intermediate term perspective. Many times when they cross they will give you a buy or sell signal.

On the weekly charts the 30 week ema does a good job of showing you the intermediate to longer term trend. Then there is the old standby, 200 day moving average, which shows the very long term trend for a bull or bear market. There is only one rule when it comes to the markets and that is there are no rules. The sooner one learns this rule the better off they’ll be.

The precious metals complex.