Monday, December 20, 2010

Good Examples of False Breakouts

Earlier I posted the negative divergences that made me believe these were false breakouts, each one was breaking out above a level of some technical significance, some more then others such as the QQQQ

 DIA shows 2 recent examples on the hourly chart, today's is the second red box. The technical level of significance here is resistance at a gap-both failed the breakout, note today's increasing volume on the failure.

 The QQQQ's were trying for a breakout high, it also failed-again see the 3C divergences posted earlier. The second or last bar is the failure on increasing volume.


Here the SPY was trying to take out a resistance level that has held a couple of times, again the last bar on the hourly chart shows the failure on increasing volume. Given some more time, we'd  likely see a move to the downside. We still may get that tomorrow.

The SPY and DIA are trading down significantly in afterhours.

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