Articles for: Technical Analysis

It was the 20th Anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash last month, and the last two to three weeks have been quite fretish.

Gold attracts a disproportional level of interest. Gold and gold stocks weigh minutely on the market compared with, say, base metals.

Bonds are debt instruments that pay owners semi-annual interest payments.

In the near term the DOW has arrived. There is not a lot more major travel for the time being – up or down – even though you may ‘feel’ the market is a little frenetic and the media/analysts beat it up.

There has been a lot of talk in recent times about whether the current Australian market rally will continue or if the brakes will come on.

It's been just over five years since the low of October 2002 that marked the end of the bear market in the US.

Metal prices have risen at an extraordinary rate in recent years. You can see from the weekly chart below that prices have risen five-fold in less than five years for Hi Grade copper, a benchmark metal.

I’m still a bear in the US. In an article I wrote some weeks back I mentioned that the US bond market was pointing to about a 50/50 chance of recession next year in the US.

This week I want to review a recent Wave 5 Buy trade on Aspreva Pharmaceuticals Corp. (ASPV:NASD).

I have the tongue out of my cheek for a serious note this week.