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CME natural gas futures have been falling lately and made a bottom extension yesterday, at a daily scale. Buy some: Elsewhere, there has been more sideways ‘churning’ in equity markets in most parts of the world and more compression signals, including…

The recent small dip-and-rally in US equities has been bounded by compressions. The ‘senior’ analysis is of weekly signals as shown in the first of these charts. The weekly compressions in many US indices that formed in late June have…

No, we haven’t become mystic hippies who trust in astrology but there is a slightly bearish case developing in US stocks that might provoke a drop. As we wrote last week, there have been new daily-scale compressions in US equities…

There has been a rally in CBoT wheat and also in corn from the multi-year low levels that were reached earlier in the summer. There has been no sign of the soya bean market wanting to follow suit but today we…

The bottom extension we reported in gold yesterday has been repeated today and joined by others in platinum and silver: These extensions are stronger evidence that this drop will end hereabouts and we would now start to buy. Platinum may…

Gold prices have been falling for two weeks and the drop has just accelerated to produce an extension. The chart shows the story over the last few months. There was a lengthy run-up in price that ended in July and August…

Much has been written elsewhere about the tight trading ranges that have formed in stocks, bonds and currencies in the last few months. This is reflected in the signals that we have been getting – most of which have been…

There have been some repercussions from yesterday’s Fed meeting and announcements. The principle feature was that Janet Yellen’s remarks were considerably more ‘doveish’ in tone than those of some of her colleagues in recent weeks and so the market now expects…

Stock markets have regained some or all of the losses incurred in the sharp drop on Friday 9th of this month and the subsequent few days. The support that we identified from weekly-scale compressions in the September 11th edition held…

The US stock market fell hard on Friday, probably because various Fed spokespeople keep suggesting that the upcoming September meeting may well result in a rate rise and the market now has the strong impression that this is a coordinated…