mkt ahead...06th dec 2010...

on spot nifty, after crossing 5884, positive bias has developed on the charts in the near to short term.

a pullback is happening which can continue upto 6100 to 6130. some profit booking is possible there.

follow-up on my crude long term tgts...

on stock market forums readers may be aware of the accuracy of my outlook on crude.

2.5-3 yrs ago on chats and discussion forum/s i had given major tgt 100 and after crossing that straightaway major long term tgt of 150 and no more when even most of the big international fund houses and brokerages and others were predicting 200+ dollars per bbl. accordingly we had reaction from near 148. after which my tgts on downside was 100 initially. on breaking 100 the tgt was revised to fresh one at 70 and when that was also reached i gave a final bottom for crude at 34(some people interested in crude futures and followed the technical forum had actually covered their shorts there). crude bottomed near 35 and then started its pullback.

this year too elsewhere on the blog my major tgts were 90 and 105-110 and 70 as a good support lvl. i had also said so far it was only a pullback of the big downmove that we had in the second half of year 2008.

we've seen somewhere just near/below crude taking support and then slowly moving up.

we now have a breakout on the upperside on crude after almost seven months. my tgt of 90 is done and near to 92 some minor profit booking might be possible. if it rallies up and crosses 110 in intermediate to long term then a relook at revising the long term tgts again will have to be done.

mkt ahead...29th nov 2010...

nifty spot:

today's resis 5855.
near to short term resis 5884.

till then just a bounce.

follow up on view/lvls...

accurate analysis again... and lvls that work!...

mcx crudeoil near term resistance and support lvls given held perfectly for first couple of days nice 2 way trading.
once 3780 taken out, sharp upmove toward short term resistance took place.

nifty also faced resistance at 6000 and 5800 offered very good support for first four days with just a deviation of +-20 points on intraday.

there were profitable and sharp trading opportunities on both sides up and down within the given range.

short term trend is still down and the view given some posts back is now seems to be coming true i.e. lvls of 5800 and 5600. large daily mkt turnover seen in last 3-4 days.

similarly see how the  given resistance of 3825 now became the support in 26th nov 2010 trading session too.

mkt ahead...22nd nov 2010...

nifty spot

outlook: in short term downtrend and more weakish than global stock mkt indices but oversold

near to short term resistance: 6000
near term support: 5800

usd index

still bullish if near term support 77.30 holds
in the short term small reversal but yet to be bullish immediately

crudeoil

comex($/bbl): in near to short term downtrend, overall sideways, long term picture as given about more than eight months ago i.e rougly support near 70 with upper tgts 90/105-110.

on mcx near term resistance 3780 support 3670
short term resistance 3825 support 3560.

mkt ahead...nifty 15thnov 2010...

referring to mkt ahead...4thnov 2010 post,"there was also a falling wedge type pattern on nifty eod charts which was broken out from on monday. if correct then it has min lower tgt 6243 and min upper tgt of 6340, somewhere near the lifetime high. its a buy on dips for short term but the sl is quite deep from here".

both the tgts have been completed and nifty has since seen profit booking from 6340 lvl till upto 6050 on friday.

the pattern sl is about 5930, which if breaks can lead to further slide, but where some support may also exist in the near to short term.

09th nov 2010...

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very long term chart of gold...

the projested tgts/lvls are speculative, do not take positions as they may be risky for you.

(refer ew chart and views posted on 06th dec 2009 http://valuetrading.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-gold-ew-chart.html)

these are not comex but london exch gold rates in $/oz, so some difference will be there. there is a small resistance near 1380.

from elliott wave point of view, at a glance looks like sub-wave ((v)) of (v) of iii of the 5th impulse wave from the low of year 2001 is going on. after which iv down and v up remain. iv can result in minor correction just near/below $1200/oz. v can go up to a tgt lvl 1452-62.

very long term tgts are about $1800-1850/oz after a good amount of correction below $1000/oz i.e after 5-v completes near 1450 etc.

on mcx my short to medium term tgt was about Rs 19250 and 20000/10gms, it made high about 20028and currently facing resistance on one of the trendlines from high of may 2009. if gold still rallies up and only when takes that lvl as well as the trendline out then can rally to roughly 22000. minor support currently is at 19250 and strong support for gold is at 17500.

mkt ahead...nifty 04th nov 2010

on monday, after the huge gap up opening and and maintaining the gains through the day it was suspected that perhaps nifty might again challenge the breakout level 6152, coming up after making a low of 5937 on last friday.

yday's gap up and breakout close has taken it further away from a possibility of movement to the prev expected 5800 lvl on downside. the trading volumes were not quite satisfactory. however there are imp resistances on dow near 11300 and on nifty slightly above 5200. so, if its just a bounce or fresh rally difficult to say at the moment.

there was also a falling wedge type pattern on nifty eod charts which was broken out from on monday. if correct then it has min lower tgt 6243 and min upper tgt of 6340, somewhere near the lifetime high. its a buy on dips for short term but the sl is quite deep from here.

we are still in the euphoria zone and till now no major surprises on earnings front, so only a slight increase upgrade on nifty eps can be seen, which has slightly lowered the rapidly rising valuations, but still in that overexpensive zone.

as we know that liquidity pumping in the euphoric situations can take the mkt to much higher levels than anticipated, so whenever the lifetime high of year 2008 is broken on large volumes, the long term tgts can be as high as 6700/7000 .i.e 10% higher.

mkt ahead...20th oct 2010...

much needed profit booking may have begun...more later...

evening update:

refer to the 20th sep 2010 technical outlook,"the upwardly sloping trend channel which the nifty was following for quite a while has a width of 660 points and the channel was broken on the upperside near 5600. so the tgt around 5600+660=6260."

accordingly, the nifty reached my above mentioned tgt 6260 and slightly more i.e 6284.10 and soon faced the profit booking and started its near term downtrend.


the nifty has closed below an imp 6050 lvl which was to be a tsl for short term positional long positions. therefore likelihood that in coming days there could be further fall with intermediate pullbacks/bounces.

it may also be good news that profit booking seems to be happening ahead of the big ipo's and oct being a caution month many times, which may give a good opportunity to the investors who were anxiously waiting on sidelines, if it slides further, to enter into buying stocks. seems that final intermediate to long term upward tgts may be much higher than the latest high if the result season also goes well. technically we can see some lvls but will not be appropriate to post now.

likelihood of an initial shallow correction upto 5800/5600(channel breakout lvl) cannot be ruled out. at any point the correction ends will be known and perhaps might be update here.

(read discl given above)

mkt ahead...nifty 26th sep 2010...

valuations:


nifty valuations certainly above the profit booking p/e zone of 23-24 as marked on earlier pe charts of mine, and becoming more and more expensive.

it is quite an interesting situation wherein nifty50 p/e valuations are high but when compared to year 2000 and also to period 2007-2008 on the price to book value basis, still the 4 p/b has not been crossed yet which infers the cheaper intrinsic value and fundamental strength of the stocks.

lot many stocks still underperforming. so the rally is not broad based, only the fundamentally better stocks have been rewarded with money inflows.

its certainly not a time for investors but as mentioned a good fast trading play, in which some stocks/nifty can rise abruptly and turn down at some point with the same speed.

difficult to give tgts for such upmoves but near to previous highs of 2008 one should exercise a lot of caution.

spot chart:


raise the trailing profit stop for short to medium term longs or medium term long positions now to 5880 closing basis.

mkt ahead...20thsep2010...

the upwardly sloping trend channel which the nifty was following for quite a while has a width of 660 points and the channel was broken on the upperside near 5600. so the tgt around 5600+660=6260.



hold the positional long positions with near term support 5750 closing basis.

mkt ahead...13th sep 2010...

and again 5350 held like a strong support which prevented any further fall to the 5200 lvl and nifty bounced off on short covering and overall mkt buying and we had a straight 16 day uptrend which was so good that infact the feared 5585 resistance on the previously respected uptrend channel was also convincingly taken out on the upside.

most likely the nifty may now follow the new drawn channel as shown in chart with resistance coming at 5712 plus in the short term, crossing which a near term tgt may be about 5780/5880 or so.

on the valuation front, we are already in expensive zone(5550-5730) on nifty50(refer 12th july 2010 post on this blog), anything above this is euphoric and prone to sudden large moves and may not be suitable for investors but good as a fast trading play.

the resis for the day is 5666/5676 and a rough sl for near term may be kept near 5600 on closing basis.

larger picture: nifty is still in firm uptrend so far and the intermediate to long term tgt is about 6000 to the previous high, and large profit booking in between cannot be ruled out on stretched valuations.

short to medium term investors cl sl is 5345 whereas intermediate to long term investors in stocks/nifty etf's etc dont have to worry much and can keep holding although they can also book profits partially anytime the sl for 5350 is convincingly broken consistently or whenever nifty reaches euphoria or touches the upper end of expensive valuation zones.