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Delivering technical research of the financial markets
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Chart Patterns

Flag or Pennant

Pattern Description:

A flag or pennant is a continuation pattern which portrays a period of consolidation in the market before resumption of the original trend. They can be observed in both rising and falling markets. A rise in volume should be observed at the breakout point. If this is not the case then the move is likely to falter.
Flag or Pennant

Featured Video

Trading with MACD on MetaStock

This video is a brief tutorial about what the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) is and how to use in in MetaStock Software. The presentation is given by Kevin Nelson a former employee of MetaStock who now heads up his own training firm called BreakAway training.

Featured Article

Could A 'Transaction Tax' Be A Good Thing?

by Lance Roberts
Summary Over the years, I've heard from several clients who have had trouble disciplining themselves from trading too frequently. Free trading may save you money on trading costs, but if it causes you to trade rashly, your returns may suffer. As a fiscal conservative, I'm not too fond of taxes of any sort. I am a firm believer in "free markets." I recently discussed why "Free, Isn't Really Free" regarding the retail investor. While "free...
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Technical Review

Platinum /US$ - Current technical assessment

2025-06-07 by Tim Straiton

On the 28th May 2025, we addressed the potential for a sharp rise in volatility in the platinum market. Since then platinum has jumped almost 200 dollars within the space of fifteen days and closed the week (6th June 2025) at $1169. Although the overall picture is bullish, FOMO disease is slowly rearing its ugly head as can be observed with the 14 week relative strength index at over 70% and the distance of the current price from the 40 week moving average at 16%.

The high in March 2022 of 1179 was followed by a sharp decline in September 2022 to the $829 level and there is no guarantee that a similar movement will not take place again.The weekly MACD-V level of 56 is close to similar extreme levels seen on a number of occasions since January 2023. The Fibonacci 23.6% retracement from the high based on the $1336 to $558 range traded since March 2020 comes in at $1152.

The Gold to Platinum ratio has fallen sharply to 2.83 from a recent high of 3.56 and is now below its 200 day moving average of 2.9370. It is not yet apparent if the bull market in platinum will continue with the same recent dynamic thrust, however the short term outlook appears over-extended.


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Featured Site

CFTC Forex Fraud

Site Description:

Commodity Futures Trading Commission consumer advisory site
http://www.cftc.gov/enf/enf-forex.htm