The bears have gained downside technical momentum and are on the verge of producing a bearish downside «breakout» from the sideways and choppy trading range as depicted by the support and
resistance lines seen on the chart.
Not exact matches
FxWirePro: BTC / USD faces strong trend
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Another reason we would first like to
see a minor price retracement from current levels before buying is that the long - term monthly chart interval shows us that $ GLD is actually running into
resistance of its downtrend
line from its September 2011 high:
Zooming into the shorter - term daily chart of $ USO, we
see that the ETF broke out above
resistance of its short - term downtrend
line (from the April 2 high) just two days ago and is holding the breakout:
A bounce from current levels could easily
see resistance around the convergence of the two
lines at approximately 7,272 to 7,289.
Regardless, when the market does
see it's next reversal, ETFs that are rallying into
resistance of long term downtrend
lines and down - sloping 200 - day MAs will generally provide the best shorting opportunities.
As you can
see, on a short - term basis there is an obvious «
line in the sand /
resistance» level at $ 5.66 a share.
This is also
seen at the key
resistance of the range, note how the
line through 1.3140 is not touching the exact highs on September 14th and 17th at 1.3171... this brings up the point that sometimes support or
resistance is more of a «zone» than a strict / exact level.
What we
see is that a long - term down trending trend
line, as well as a key «once support / then
resistance» level ($ 5.27 a share) have both been pierced to the upside.
Over the past five sessions, First Trust Health Care AlphaDEX ETF ($ FXH) has rallied into
resistance near its previous swing high of $ 31.45 (
see dashed horizontal
line on chart below).
The decline also caused an ugly, wide - ranged bar to form on the weekly chart, which should now act as overhead
resistance (
see horizontal
line on the chart below).
Starting with the weekly chart, you will
see that $ EWH is testing
resistance of a downtrend
line that has been in place since early 2011.
You will also sometimes have existing support or
resistance levels that basically run right through the center of a value area, showing about the middle of the value area, and we can
see this clearly by the blue
line in the chart below.
Litecoin try to break above the previous uptrend
line that we now
see as
resistance.
The should
line up nicely with the previous
resistance line of the uptrend channel, so it's likely that we should
see plenty of buying pressure underneath.
Currently we have a buy signal but we shall remain on the sidelines until we
see a push and break above that minor
resistance trend
line at $ 150.
The
line hasn't met any
resistance all week, so I will be curious to
see whether the
line eventually hits 7.
This weekend
sees the start of the German Bundesliga and the English Premier League and although there has been little movement in the Premiership futures market, the «Bayern to Win»
line got hammered down to 1.54 by mostly public money before it received any
resistance.
The scientists also generated a panel of (reconstructed) ancestral and existing TRIM5 genes (19 total), expressed them in cultured cell
lines, and exposed the cells to 16 different retroviruses (lentiviruses and others) to
see which TRIM5 versions conferred
resistance to which viruses.
To
see how alcohol affects
resistance to infection, Gyongyi Szabo of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester and colleagues exposed monocytes — white blood cells involved in the front -
line defence against infection — to chemicals that mimic viruses and bacteria.
A single case of
resistance has been
seen in a patient in Denmark — if more cases emerge and spread, we will lose our first
line of defence against the virus
As you can
see from the chart above, the zero
line often acts as an area of support and
resistance for the indicator.
In the image above, you can
see a nice bearish engulfing pattern that occurred right at the
resistance line.
In most cases, you want to
see a signal form either in -
line with a trend or from a key level of support or
resistance if it's against the trend or range - bound.
Often, you will
see a key chart level of support or
resistance lining up with a 50 % retrace level of a major move, this is a very confluent level when this happens and if you get a well - defined price action trade signal there it's almost a «no - brainer» trade, meaning you should probably take it and not think too hard.
See the support and
resistance lines on the chart.
You will also sometimes have existing support or
resistance levels that basically run right through the center of a value area, showing about the middle of the value area, and we can
see this clearly by the blue
line in the chart below.
One of the best ways to use the Fibonacci retracement tool is to spot potential support and
resistance levels and
see if they
line up with Fibonacci retracement levels.
You look back a little bit and you
see that the 1.0510 price was good
resistance level in the past and it just happens to
line up with the 50.0 % Fibonacci retracement level.
However, as a general rule, support and
resistance lines and trend
lines are good starting points for analyzing technical setups and I wrote about one such setup last week with Chris Vermeulen giving us an example in this chart of what he
saw headed into the week of the 14th (chart courtesy of The Gold and Oil Guy):
You can draw a
line from Rey seeking out Luke for training to Luke
seeing out Yoda, or between the
Resistance clashing with a bloodied but by no means beaten First Order in the same way that the Empire came back as a resurgent force against the Rebels.
Resistance to the upside is
seen at the above trend
line that forms the mentioned pattern, tracking at $ 1,025.
Technically, BCH / USD has formed a bearish pennant pattern observed on the daily time frame, support of the lower trend
line currently tracking around $ 625, where the upper
resistance is
seen at $ 680.
The pressure
seen for Bitcoin Cash to the downside, is pushing the crypto back towards an initially descending trend
line, that had been acting as
resistance since December 2017.
Resistance is currently tracking at the upper trend
line,
seen around $ 220, with support now proving to hold at $ 200.
Looking back at bitcoin's parabolic curve, we can
see notable
lines of support and
resistance throughout its market cycle.
On the S7
line, Samsung has brought back the microSD card slot and water
resistance last
seen on the Galaxy S5.