Thursday, November 01, 2012
at 1:32:00 AMSudden Bullishness Seen on Bearish Charts
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Monday, October 29, 2012
at 10:08:00 PMMaybe The RBI Credit Policy Will be The Trigger
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
at 11:05:00 PMNo Change in Chart Patterns - Wait and Watch
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
at 8:02:00 PMRangebound Now, Expected to Go Down
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Saturday, October 06, 2012
at 9:42:00 PMDownward Move Starts
Attached above is the daily chart of Nifty and shows that on Friday the body of the candle completely shadows the previous day’s candle and has formed a bearish engulfing pattern. Ignoring the freak low made by the Nifty, the close itself was about 40 points lower than the previous day. This is fully in conformation to our previous view that a correction may be on the cards and that it is a time to remain cautious. As mentioned earlier, a downward move at this stage may take us to levels of 5400 or thereabouts. However, there may be minor supports inbetween at 5695, 5645, 5535 and 5435. The Nifty may go down all the way to 5400 or find support at one of these levels. 5435 looks the most probable to me at this stage but we’ll just let the market decide as to how low it wants to go.
Attached above is the daily chart of Gold alongwith my favourite choices of indicators, namely the RSI and the slow stochastics. Another one of my favourites, the trendline is also plotted on the chart. As shown here, Gold has been in an uptrend since the beginning of the chart, with regular corrections inbetween and now, after a deep correction, it has come very close to its trendline which tells us that we may be close to an intermediate term bottom. Also supporting it is the slow stochastics which is now moving below 20. By measuring the Fibonacci retracement of the rise from 30098 on 7th Aug 2012 to 32783 on 13th Sep 2012, it was found that the 61.8% retracement level is at 31105 and that is where Gold seems to have found support. Some possible scenarios that come to mind is that Gold may go down one more day next week to touch the trendline (between 30850-30900) and then rise again. The second possible scenario seems to be that Gold may hover at the current levels for the next few days and wait for the trendline to come and touch the prices. And the third possible scenario, and maybe the most probable one that Gold may start rising from here itself since it has started showing a series of reversal candlestick patterns on the charts. 4th Oct 2012 saw the formation of a bullish hammer while 5th Oct saw the formation of a harami. I would be a buyer in Gold with a stop loss below 30700 and wait for targets of 32000 and above.
An interesting fact to note is that in the international markets, Gold has risen almost $50 from 13th Sep 2012 from $1730 to $1780, a rise of 2.9%. In the Indian markets, however, Gold has fallen from 32783 to a low of 31041 during this period, a fall of over 5%. You must be wondering, why this disparity and shouldn’t Gold be trying to play catch up now? Well, not exactly, because the US Dollar in this period has fallen from 55.375 to 52.115, a fall of over 6%. So, even though, in dollar terms Gold has gone up and in rupee terms, it has come down, it can be safely attributed to the falling dollar. Now comes the tricky part. Gold may be in for a bit of a correction (downwards) in the international markets in the coming days, and so will be the dollar (upwards). If both happen simultaneously, nothing much is going to happen in Gold in India. If Gold falls and so does the dollar, Gold in India may go down further. If the dollar starts improving and Gold continues to go up, we may be in for a sharp recovery. In this light, I wouldn’t go about keeping targets of 33000 and above but be more realistic and will probably book my profits near the 32000 levels. In rupee terms, frankly, I don’t see an extremely bright Diwali for Gold but a slightly moderate one.
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Sunday, September 30, 2012
at 11:39:00 PMWeakness Still Seen on Nifty... Time to Remain Cautious
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Friday, September 28, 2012
at 1:25:00 AMA Correction on the Cards
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
at 11:28:00 PMNifty Breaks Down Further, Support Between 4160-4200
Seen above is the daily chart of Nifty and shows the range within which the index remains locked. The lower end of the range is shown at 4200. However, as explained in yesterday’s post, the index has broken a symmetrical triangle within which it was moving on the downside. The target for this downside breakout is 4160. If we look at the chart above and notice the pivot low which was formed in the end of July, the value happens to be 4159. So, this 4160-4200 range may provide good support to the Nifty. Looking at the Relative Strength Index (RSI), we find that it is now very close to 40. If the RSI does find support near 40, it may mean that all is not lost yet. A breakdown below this range of 4160-4200 should definitely take the RSI below 40 and that would be negative for the markets, and we could be looking at 4000 or 3800 then. Alternatively, if the Nifty were to find support near these levels and the RSI near 40, then the outlook remains, more or less, the same that we would still be in a sideways market but would be saved from the downside, for some time at least.Please do subscribe to my posts, so that all posts are delivered free to your inbox and you don't miss any useful analysis of the markets in the future.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
at 12:13:00 AMNifty May Perform Poorly
As I said in yesterday’s post, the Nifty has been alternating between up days and down days since the last 5 days. Though, today also happens to be a day marginally in the green, yet a gravestone doji (or a candle with a long upper shadow and a small body) is a sign of weakness. This should bring the markets down and the Nifty may finally find support between 4150 and 4200. If 4150 is also broken on the downside, we should be looking at a target between 3800 and 3900. The trend, as yet is not clear. We are in a short term downtrend while the intermediate term is sideways. To
Attached above is the 30 minutes chart of the Nifty. Seen on the chart is a trendline joining the different pivot highs and lows made during the month of August. Shown in the bottom portion of the chart is the Relative Strength Index (RSI) and superimposed on the prices is the Moving Averages Convergence Divergence (MACD). Let us discuss each one in detail and try and analyse which way the prices will move in the immediate short term. First, let us look at the RSI. The RSI today made a pivot high higher than the last pivot high which was made on 20th. The prices corresponding to these highs are seen making lower highs. Looking at the lows formed in the Nifty on 18th and on 22nd, the RSI at the same time is seen at the same level and is not making newer lows. So, as marked by the green arrows, there are two instances of a positive divergence occurring between the price and the RSI. But a divergence is just an indication of a reversal and not a confirmation. A confirmation will come if the trendline is broken towards the upside, i.e. if the Nifty were to go above 4370. If it turns back tomorrow and does cross 4370, it would also have made a small bullish head and shoulders pattern, the target for which would be close to 4520.But like all coins, this has a flip side to it too. Coming back to the RSI, as marked in the circles, we can see that the RSI is finding resistance near 60, which is not exactly a sign of a bull market. Looking at the trendline, we can see that today was the sixth occasion that the Nifty tried to go above the trendline in this month but failed. Assuming that this would continue to provide resistance would be bearish for the markets. Also looking at the MACD which has been superimposed on the prices, we can see that unless the Nifty recovers drastically tomorrow, we shall get a sell signal from the MACD too.
Above is the daily chart of the Nifty and an attempt has been made to study the intermediate term trend of the Nifty. As mentioned yesterday, the Nifty has now entered a sideways phase between 4200 and 4650 and would not give us a clear signal till it comes out of this range either on the upside or on the downside. If we have a look at the RSI, we can see that it has now broken the trendline which was providing support to it since the last few days and has bearish implications. These bearish implications would be cancelled if the RSI finds support near 40 and turns back. As far as the MACD is concerned, as mentioned in a post a few days ago, the sell signal which was generated is still valid and again has bearish implications for the markets. So, all in all, I am expecting the markets to perform poorly in the next 2-3 days.Please do subscribe to my posts, so that all posts are delivered free to your inbox and you don't miss any useful analysis of the markets in the future.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
at 1:13:00 AMMultiple Supports For Nifty Between 4330 and 4380

As mentioned in yesterday’s post, there are supports available on the 30 minutes and 60 minutes charts between 4330 and 4350 and on the daily charts near the neckline of the head and shoulders pattern, which could be anywhere between 4330 and 4400. Seen above is the daily chart for Nifty. This chart has three new trendlines drawn and all of them suggest support just below today’s low of 4379. With so many supports available between the 4330 and 4380 levels, there is quite a possibility that this support may hold. In case it does hold, and the Nifty crosses today’s high of 4448, we should become buyers. In case we encounter weakness tomorrow and the Nifty comes below 4330, we are looking at more downside which may (or may not) find support near 4200. Looking at the Relative Strength Index (RSI) also, it can be seen that there is support for it too near the trendline. Despite a fall of 270 points in the Nifty, which works out to roughly 6% fall in the index, the RSI has fallen from 64 to 50 only.
Since so many supports are available at 4330, we should assume that this support is likely to hold. And if it is broken, it will be quite significant for the markets and while the next support is available near 4200, even that may not hold. What the markets actually decide to do is for the market to decide. For tomorrow (today) the plan should be to go long above 4450 and go short below 4330.
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
at 12:01:00 AMNifty Displays Bullish Head and Shoulders Pattern
Attached above is the daily chart of Nifty, along with a few trendlines drawn in and the Relative Strength Index (RSI). Let us start with the longest trendline in the chart which has been drawn from the beginning of May till date and which has been shown as a dotted trendline. This trendline was quite comfortably passed through during the day today. A second trendline, which happens to be shown as a solid line green in colour, has been drawn from the beginning of June till date. This also happens to be the neckline of the inverted head and shoulders pattern, which has been marked as S, H and S. A vertical line AB has been drawn from the neckline to the bottom of the head formation. This line has then been superimposed at the point of breakout (??) today. This superimposed line AB gives us a head and shoulders breakout target of 5200. It is not clear whether the head and shoulders pattern has been broken through or not yet. I feel it just fell short of confirming it. We would assume that this pattern has been confirmed if the previous pivot high at 4540 is surpassed, which happens to be another 40 points away. If that does happen the RSI also would cross 60, which would have happened in Nifty the first time in three months and only the second time since January, when the downfall started.Is there anything that could go wrong? Yes, if it happens to be your bad day, everything could go wrong. Looking at the chart, we can see that the head and shoulders pattern has not been decisively confirmed today, which means that it could very well start coming down from here. Looking at the RSI too, we can see that the resistance at 60 has not been crossed as yet. If the Nifty turns down from here, 60 would not be crossed and it would be bearish for the index. If, on the other hand, the RSI crosses 60, we should be looking at further gains. On the downside, a move below 4140 would cancel this bullish head and shoulders pattern.
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Monday, July 28, 2008
at 10:46:00 PMLackluster Day For The Nifty
Attached above is the 30 minutes chart of the Nifty. Just like yesterday’s chart this also comes attached with the same two trendlines and the 14 period Relative Strength Index (RSI). There are some negatives and some positives to this chart. Let us look at the positives first. First of all, support was found at the lower trendline and it moved up from there. Secondly, the upper trendline was broken through, which again is a positive for the National Stock Exchange (NSE) Index. Thirdly, the RSI is finding support at 40 repeatedly as marked by the brown circle.But, as I said there are some negatives too. Firstly, the trading throughout the day was dull and boring and even after the breakout above the trendline, there was no enthusiasm which suggests that things may not be all that good for Nifty. Secondly, international cues are not too good. European markets closed more than a percent in the red. Dow Jones, at the time of going into print, is trading about 200 points down while crude is attempting a recovery, though it is not very successful at the moment.
All we can say for tomorrow is that the Nifty seems to have slipped into another trading range, though, a much narrower one, between 4280 and 4380. A move above 4380 should be bullish while a move below 4280 should be bearish in the short term. Long term and intermediate term investors should wait for the pullback to complete before taking the plunge.
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Sunday, July 27, 2008
at 11:55:00 PMSerial Blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad
Attached above is the 30 minutes chart of the Nifty with the Relative Strength Index (RSI) at the bottom. Also, on the chart, are an upward sloping trendline and a trend channel between 3800 and 4200. As seen from the chart, the upward sloping trendline is providing support to the prices at 4285. In case this support does not hold, the prices may come further down to the trend channel near 4180-4190. One reason why the prices should find support near the trendline is the RSI. The RSI, as can be seen within the thick brown circle, is finding support near 40. And the RSI finding support near 40 is bullish for the markets, at least in the short term. Three examples of the RSI finding support near 40 have been marked with the green circles and green arrows on this chart itself.However, things look pretty bad. After 7 blasts in Bangalore on Friday, Ahmedabad was rocked with 16 bomb blasts in a span of 70 minutes leaving 45 dead and 145 injured. Apart from this there was a live bomb found in Bangalore, one in Ahmedabad’s Amraiwadi area and two cars with explosives were found in Surat. The blasts were claimed by a militant outfit calling itself Indian Mujahideen and they even threatened Mukesh Ambani with ‘horrifying memories which you will never forget’. This surely, could bring the markets down. And in case 4285 support is broken, that will then become a resistance. Even if support is found at 4285, there is resistance nearby at the downward sloping trendline near 4340.
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
at 11:40:00 PMPullback Starts, Nifty Closes 43 Points in the Red
Attached above is the daily chart of Nifty with two downward sloping trendlines, a rectangle between 3800 and 4200 and the RSI. The Nifty found resistance exactly at the second trendline (the one on top) as marked on the chart. That was where the resistance was expected. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) as marked in the brown circle shows that the RSI turned from a level of 60. This is not bullish for the markets. It also shows that we may not be completely out of the woods. According to me, the levels of the RSI give a very good indication about the markets. I feel markets are bullish when RSI goes above 60 and bearish below 40 and sideways between 40 and 60.Okay, a pullback is coming. Where is this pullback going to stop? When do I buy? Frankly, we do not know where the pullback will end. The markets shall decide that. We shall follow the markets and will position ourselves to buy when the pullback is over. We can try and analyse where the support levels are. The first support is near 4310, the second one is the top of the rectangle, i.e. 4200, the third at 4000 and finally at 3800. We don’t know where it will find support but we shall buy when the market rises for two days in a row but only if the low of the pullback is above the previous low of 3800. Keep reading this space everyday and we shall know when the pullback is over and what is the most opportune time to buy.
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
at 12:54:00 AMNifty May Fall to 3500, Started Looking Attractive
Seen above is the monthly chart of Nifty for the last decade. The indicators along with the price chart are the Stochastics oscillator (in green) and the Relative Strength Index (RSI) at the bottom. Never before in the history of the Nifty was the Stochastics down to these levels. Today was the all time low of the Stochastics indicator (5,3,3) in the last 16 years. As far as the RSI is concerned, it is only on one occasion in the last 16 years that it has went down below 40 (in September 2001) otherwise it has always found support at 40. Today the RSI was 44.43 and hopefully, this time too it may reverse from 40 (we assume such a long trend to continue until it is broken). The price chart shows a little more downside because the long term trendline drawn from the 2003 lows shows that there is support near 3500, which is in line with the target that we had calculated in yesterday’s post. Both the RSI and Stochastics show that the bottom may not be very far away.Fundamentally too, the things are not looking too bad. According to the NSE website, the Nifty today closed with a Price to Earnings Ratio (P/E) of 16.33. At the same rate, assuming the price does fall to 3500, the P/E of the Nifty too would fall to 14.97 at current year earnings. Going forward, assuming that the earnings would grow at only 7% (the same as the GDP growth) per annum, the Nifty would then be available at only 13.99 times FY09E and 13.08 times FY10E. Today, it is available at 15.26 times FY09E and 14.26 times FY10E. Even during the Sep 2001 lows (after the Twin Towers crash) the Nifty was trading at a P/E of between 12 and 13 times earnings. Considering that the economic conditions may be better 6 to 12 months down the line, don’t these P/E levels of 15 to 16 times seem attractive? To me, they do.
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Sunday, July 06, 2008
at 9:30:00 PMThis Rally May Fizzle Out
Seen above is the 30 minutes chart of the Nifty along with the Directional Movement ADX indicator on top (green colour with red horizontal lines) and the Relative Strength Index (RSI) at the bottom (red colour with blue horizontal lines). The ADX indicator, as mentioned in yesterday’s post, measures the strength of a trend while the RSI measures the strength of a stock/index with respect to its historical prices. As seen from the chart, and as marked by the green arrows, every successive low in the Nifty saw a reduction in the strength of the trend, as measured by the ADX. Now the ADX is at a level of 15 and below 20 it does indicate that there is no trend in the market except sideways. This gives us an indication that the downtrend may have been over.So, are we in an uptrend now? Not yet. As mentioned in a previous post, a short term uptrend shall be confirmed only if the Nifty were to go above 4105. We would get an early indication that the trend has changed if the Nifty were to go above the downward sloping trendline. The RSI finding support near 40, as marked by the green circle, also gave us positive indications about a forthcoming uptrend. Unfortunately, things change fast where the markets are concerned. With a 90 points increase in the markets, anybody would say that a short term uptrend will come about. However, the charts suggest differently. The move, as already mentioned, was slow and lacked momentum and, though the prices managed to cross the trendline, there was no excitement/large range candle associated with the breakout, which gives me doubts whether the breakout was genuine or not. The RSI finding resistance near 60, as marked by the brown circle, and failing to go above it also makes one wonder whether an uptrend will come now or after another brief correction.
At this moment, I’m afraid, this increase in prices may fizzle out once again. We may see another fallback to the lower trendline to 3920 or upto the previous lows below 3850 (or even lower??) before we make another attempt at a pullback. A move below 3875 will signify that we are back in a downtrend.
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Monday, June 02, 2008
at 11:18:00 PMBloodbath on the Streets! 4500 Visible
However, it wasn’t such a bad day for technical analysts. The swing traders had already anticipated a fall when the Nifty went below 4990. All stop losses for long positions were hit and they were, and still are, merrily sitting on cash, anticipating further downfall. While they do have a target in mind (in my case, it is between 4500 and 4550, and some are even anticipating 3800), they will buy only when the Nifty gives a signal to buy. It may mean missing out on a small portion of the decline/rally but it captures most of the move. There are different theories in technical analysis – one which tells analysts to execute their trades when the target is achieved and another which tells us to buy or sell only when a buy/sell signal is received. I like to follow both theories. For example, in this case, I would look to invest 50% of my money when the target is achieved i.e. when the Nifty goes below 4550 and I would invest the remaining 50% when a buy signal is received, even if it comes at 4800. Both methods have their own pros and cons and I will, probably, talk about them in one of my weekend posts which come under the ‘Lessons on Investing’ category. You can click on “Lessons on Investing” anytime in the label cloud on the right to read such posts.
We have the daily chart of the Nifty with us today. I’ve not included many things on the charts today, so as to keep it very simple for the readers. I am now going to explain what I have included, what my reading is about the chart and why I feel so. I always like to give reasons for my analysis and it is there for everybody to see. As you can see from the chart, there are two trendlines – a downward sloping dashed trendline and an upward sloping solid trendline. The solid trendline shows where the Nifty broke through the support line and showed that a downtrend could start. And the dashed trendline shows the level above which the Nifty should come back in an uptrend. As one can see, and as has been mentioned, a downtrend was signaled when the Nifty came below 4990 and an uptrend would be signaled when the Nifty crosses the dashed trendline which today stands at 5020. Since this line is sloping downwards, this level would keep changing everyday.The next thing that can be seen from the chart are the two vertical dashed lines marked ‘A’ and ‘B’. Line A measures the distance from the top of the recent uptrend to the trendline on that day. This line A has then been superimposed at the point where the Nifty broke through the trendline and this superimposed line is marked as B. The logic is that the downtrend should be as brief (or as severe) as the uptrend was, though, in some cases there is a possibility of it getting extended too. This superimposed line, thus, gives us a target of 4530 on the Nifty. Since this target is usually not exact, I’m taking it as between 4500 and 4550. You will notice that the same principle is used when calculating the targets for head and shoulders patterns, double/triple tops/bottoms. If you look at the pattern formed from where the solid line starts to where it ends, it does look like a head and shoulders pattern, though, with a very slanted neckline. You will also notice that the Relative Strength Index (RSI) has made a much easier to imagine bearish head and shoulders pattern. Also, one should notice the RSI within the small circle. Since the last week, the RSI was repeatedly finding support at 40, which in itself is not a bullish sign, but is definitely a positive sign which suggests that the market was showing some strength because of which the RSI was finding difficulty going below 40. This strength has been negated today with the RSI advancing to levels lower than 40.
Again, we are not looking at charts of any stocks these days because it is not the time to buy as we are still in an intermediate term downtrend. When the market again shows signs of improvement and there are some buying opportunities available, some of them worth a mention would find their way through on this page.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
at 10:57:00 PMShort Term Technical Rally/Bounce Back Possible
Seen above is the 60 minutes chart of the Nifty. While, the downtrend is clearly visible with lower highs and lower lows in place, yet there are some short-term positives visible on this short term chart. First of all, the price has now reached the downward sloping trendline which has provided support to the prices 3-4 times since the last one month. Not only that, it also reversed from the line and has shown one blue candle at the end. If we concentrate on the price movements in the last two days, 26th and 27th, we can see that the price has been making lower lows while the Relative Strength Index (RSI) during the same period has been making higher lows, thus creating a positive divergence between the price and the RSI. The same has been emphasized with the downward and upward sloping arrows. Another positive which is not visible on this chart, but is there on the daily charts, is that the RSI has found support at 40 and has flattened at that level.An upward move could find resistance near 4900 and above that it could go on upwards to 4935 which will confirm a short term uptrend. This uptrend could take the Nifty between 4990 and 5010. A move to these levels could be used as a shorting opportunity. I think taking naked short positions is a risky game which risk averse traders should not enter into, but low risk shorting opportunities like buying puts (one could go for 4800, 4700 or 4600 June puts) or bear call spreads (e.g. buying 5000 call and selling 4600 or 4500 June call) is definitely a good opportunity. For reference sake, the 4800, 4700 and 4600 puts were available for Rs.156, Rs.118 and Rs.88 respectively at the end of the day while the 5000, 4600 and 4500 calls were available for Rs.93, Rs.320 and Rs.395 respectively.
Once again, do not be tempted to take long positions if the market does go up tomorrow. It makes sense to create long positions only if 5070-5080 levels are broken on the upside.
Uma, a small time trader herself, writes about her trading experiences in the form of a personal stock diary on her blog and it happens to be a good read. Incidentally, she also left a link to my blog on her blog. Thank you, Uma.
Well, that’s all for today. Happy Investing!!!
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
at 10:15:00 PMResistance Found! Where Do We Go Now?
Attached above is the daily chart of Nifty. I know there are too many things drawn on the charts and the idea is not to confuse you. The idea is to do a little bit of analysis. And not too much of analysis too because we don’t want a situation of analysis paralysis. But just enough analysis to weigh the strengths against the weaknesses in this chart of Nifty. You can click on the chart to open it in a new window so that you can see a larger image. Let us take each point one by one. We were within a clear well-defined range between the two trendlines marked as 1 and 2. What did us in was this third dashed trendline marked as 3! Were we expecting it to happen? If yes, why wasn’t it discussed here? The answer is no, we were not expecting resistance here. We were expecting a little bit of profit booking soon but not exactly here. Why? Firstly, we were in a well defined range between the two trendlines and we weren’t expecting a third one to interfere in between. Secondly, have a look at the Relative Strength Index (RSI). The RSI has been respecting the trendline since 21st Jan 2008 and had gone well over 60 in the end of April and was clearly showing signs of bullishness. We were not expecting it to find resistance at 60, like it did this time around (as marked by the circle). One reason why the price found resistance here is because it reached the 38.2% retracement level from the 8th Jan 2008 high to 22nd Jan 2008 low. This level too was not expected to be too much of a resistance because this too has been breached a number of times since 22nd Jan 2008 without any real support/resistance. It was probably the combined effect of trendline 3, the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement level and the RSI at 60, all at the same levels, that did us in.We now have two possibilities. The Nifty may ignore this small resistance soon and continue to go up to trendline 2, in which case the RSI may also cross the resistance at 60 and we could then expect the Nifty to cross 5300 soon too. Another possibility that may happen is that the Nifty continues to respect this trendline and starts coming down in which case it would find support near trendline 1 near 4950. In that case the RSI would also fall. And if it falls too much so as to cross the trendline, we can probably expect the Nifty too to break 4950. Another remote possibility is that this may be a small consolidation and could find support near 5000. Let us wait and see what the market decides to do.
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Monday, May 12, 2008
at 10:11:00 PMMarkets Recover from Expected Support Levels
The Nifty is currently standing at resistance at 5020 as shown by the downtrending line. If it were to remain/go above 5020 after 10:30AM then its next target would be close to 5150.
On the daily chart of DLF, we can see that it has made a series of three doji candles (candles where opening price and closing price are the same or very close to each other) and suggests that the short term down trend may be over in this stock and it should see a reversal from these levels. Another positive in this chart is that the RSI is still above 40 and if DLF reverses from here then the RSI will also reverse and a reversal from 40 for the RSI is a good sign. The only negative that can be seen is that the RSI reversed from 60 when the last high was made and that means that it is still not in an uptrend. So, this time we should be careful when the RSI reaches 60 and should maintain a long position in the stock if the RSI were to cross 60. For now, it seems to be a good buy above today’s high of 640 with a stop loss near 607 for a target between 720 and 750 (and more if the RSI were to cross 60). Do not buy if the price doesn’t cross 640.
HDFC Ltd. rose from 2300 to 2900 levels, a move of over 25%, in just a matter of 10 days and then went through a brief consolidation, which has already lasted 8 days. A move above 2750 should confirm that the consolidation is over and it can give a move of another Rs.450/- in a matter of two weeks. If you can see the three trendlines on the chart, you can notice that it looks like an ‘F’ or a Flag complete with the staff. Look to buy above 2750 with a stop loss of 2600 for a target near 3200.
IDBI, after a sudden downfall, went into a phase of consolidation for over 3 months and finally broke through the trendline, only to see a pullback back to the trendline. It has support at the trendline at 98 and today’s doji suggests that the support may have been found. Look to buy above today’s high of 102 with a stop below 95 for a target of 130.
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