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We have been expecting more buy signals in commodities and now there are two more. Sugar is breaking upward from the compressions we reported earlier in the week and Soybeans have made bottom extensions in the last two days. Buy…

There have been encouraging signs for bulls in some commodity markets. Starting with a couple of indices that we follow, compressions are stating to break upward: In addition, wheat broke upward from daily-scale compressions yesterday, and pullbacks can be bought…

Dow futures made a daily-scale top extension yesterday: This is the first such signal from any major US index in the recent rise in selected stock markets. We have been warning readers not to chase this up-move and this new…

Here is the 4th update to the same weekly charts that we have been publishing since late October. The two US indices shown have (just about) pushed up above their compression levels and so are now seemingly embarked on a…

The Reuters equal weight commodity index that we follow as one indicator has produced good signals in the past few years. Readings from this and  a few other similar measures led us three years ago to say  that  commodities ‘as a…

The last-minute rally in US stocks on Friday did (just) push values above the weekly-scale compressions that we have been reporting for some weeks. The Value Line made new highs for the range and the break this entailed would normally be enough…

Despite the evident strength in the most-watched US stock indices (S&P, Nasdaq, Dow) there has not yet been a ‘break away’ from the compression signals that we have been reporting, so we still can’t state with any confidence that a…

The ‘churn’ continues in equity markets, with no clear break into a new trend in either the US or China, where there were further weekly-scale compressions last week: It is tempting to announce that the two US indices are ‘breaking…