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http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/CT/57
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http://futures.tradingcharts.com/intraday/CF/57

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I try to figure out the personality of the market, looking at all the different timeframes. Some markets can be boring and yet have stability in the sentiment/trend. Others can be volatile, and even though your correct in your directional bias, the market can throw you off like a rodeo bull. I don't...

seems like it likes to confirm bottoms with a retest, classic 'W' double bottom.

colder weather in the northeast, snowing in April here.

chart

http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/CF/M

it seems to bottom out in the middle of summer.

coffee short position is making money. anyone else system reading 'short' on coffee?

seasonal pattern with yen, usdyen bearish as summer approaches, risk of 110 exists.

heres the weekly chart using the same number of bars on the daily. I think its around 610 bars.

700 pips of risk on 1 standard lot(100,000) in the spot market is 9.17 dollars per pip. 700 x 9.17 = 6,419.00 700 pips is quantified from the recent high and low. (122-115) Linear regression slope on the daily is upward sloping. 100,000 equity 1 standard lot, 700 pip fluctuation is 6.4% fluctuation ...

the major force that will drive the world markets will be the next presidential election. If the GOP wants to stay in power, they have to inflate the stock market and give us cheap oil, and low interest rates. Low interest rates might be around the corner, they are already here on the long end. But ...

ATR expansion
regression slope downward
RSI overbought

implies further downside movement.

lumber continues to trend down with the housing debacle and the slowing economy.

gasoline will have a hard time moving higher, the democrats will lynch the oil executives, and the GOP will be blamed for high gasoline prices. Investigations into price gouging. The next presidential election will hinge on the price of oil, and oil will be discounted, works in well with a dollar ra...

to 2.08, 40 cent peak attempts.

2.88 ---2.48---2.08

copper touching the downward trendline projection. It implies after this retrace further downside momo to 2.40.

gold

1) dollar advance

in a slowing economy, what good is gold?

cant eat it
cant wear it
cant exchange it, at your local store

feeder cattle lower lows on a long term chart.

those magnets are just stored energy. Trying to fit all the markets together similar to the logical advance of most commodity markets as the dollar started collapsing 5 years ago.

yes, long term price patterns seem to indicate a multistage advance precedes a larger then usual upside attempt before falling back.