@theequilibrium is a true master of the chart game. In my mind, he is one of the best chartists to learn from due to the style in which he undertakes marking his charts. His background in Architecture is clearly evident, and I personally look at every chart he posts. -Alamo-
Charting Under the Stars: Real Estate [...]

As $AMZN has recently ripped to new all-time highs after a post earnings explosion, it is worth a closer look on multiple time frames to see if the move is sustainable.  Let’s begin with the monthly chart:

I have posted this chart many times over the past few months, noting how significant a break above the [...]

One of the best webinars I’ve ever seen.  Regardless whether you’re an investor or trader, in this video Jack Bouroudjian covers the major interacting forces acting on the market such as economic reports, treasuries, and yield curve.  In addition, Bouroudjian shows us incredible insight into how the markets are structured, interact with each other, and [...]

Reading Assignments:

Where’s the S&P 500 Headed? Here’s What Two Technical Indicators Say
Possible Current Long & Short Hedge Fund Strategies
Bill Cara’s Week in Review #38, 2009

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I’m down on this PIR about 3%. Unless the bottom falls out in the next 15 minutes, I’m holding over night, since this is obviously one of those fade days [...]

Peak Oil Update
World Will Soon Face an Oil Supply Crunch
By Chris Nelder
Friday, September 18th, 2009
Everyone who follows the peak oil story has by now seen some of the editorials that blanketed the press over the last few weeks, attempting to debunk it and disparage its adherents. I responded to the worst of them three weeks [...]

Nightly late-night chart review sessions on twitter and Chart.ly.  Follow me on twitter@theEquilibrium.
AKS‎ – AK Steel Holding Corporation (NYSE): “daily- nice breakout today- target 26 resistance from last Sept. on follow-thru”

AKS‎ – AK Steel Holding Corporation (NYSE):  “weekly- breaking into area of very low prior volume- res. at 26-ish, then 38.2% FIb at 30.30″

FTK‎ – Flotek [...]

Long Trade Idea Allied Nevada Gold Corp. (AVN) Along With SPDR Gold Shares Weekly Chart September 13, 2009
AVN is testing it’s latest breakout from above on lower volume. If GLD continues higher then AVN’s breakout from this almost 3 month consolidation could be a nice low risk high reward trade. It is not as liquid [...]

Nasdaq Composite, Apple Inc, Google Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Research In Motion Limited Weekly Charts With Fibonacci Retracements September 13, 2009
The weekend is a great time to go over the weekly charts for the upcoming week of trading. Even if you day trade it is imperative to get outside the smaller time frames and see what [...]

The Energy Revolution Needs China’s Resource Investments
For last week’s Energy and Capital, I reviewed China’s buying spree of natural resources, and argued that we may need them for the energy revolution more desperately than anyone now imagines.
If we want an example of good long-term resource planning, we might want to look to China.
While the first [...]

SPDR Gold Trust ETF: GLD
GLD has a nice ascending triangle making higher lows up the 50 day and 20 day SMA. Gold itself broke out today and my partner in crime @JeffreyLin on twitter called out the triangle breakout on Gold. My alert was set for GLD @ 94.20 with a upside target of 100 thinking [...]