US Soybeans - Triangle Pattern Update

        During the yesterday's trading session the price reacted to the lower triangle line as I expected. This usually appears when the price is not ready to breakthrough the triangle. Sentimentally it means the buyers and the sellers have equal strengths and positions, painting sharp and nasty moves in range. 

Good luck waiting!

US Soybeans - Triangle Pattern

        Since last September US Soybeans has been moving sideways painting pretty nice triangle pattern. According to few technical theories the price target should be projected to the downside, but not before breakthrough the lower line of the pattern .  Untill then we are doing nothing.
Please wait for update.

AEX25.I

         Recently I observe the main Dutch AEX25 and test few W.D.Gann methods.
At the chart I have applied few astrology methods (fourth dimension, first trade horoscope, planetary longitude conversion into prices and planetary aspects which cause price reaction). I applied all these method  manually as Gann did nearly hundred years ago.

S&P500 Update

            The upward move since 28/18/2013 1966.26 low  looks quite impulsive, and therefore I have labeled it as an impulsive. According to this count 1851 high should be the first Minor of fifth Int. The 1737 low is labeled as Minor 2 or the begining of something else.
            Short term my indicators looks overbought, nevertheless I will wait for one more small 5 of Minuette degree to complete the impulsive five of Minute 1st. If not, the current very short term count should be discussed again. The blue horizontal lines are short term support resistanse zone.
          Few of the main EU Indexes I observe (AEX25,STOXX50,DAX30,CAC40), are on their way to meet old resistanse zones. 

I will leave my long term count the same about now.

 I will discuss my favorite EU Index AEX25 soon.

Good luck to all.

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Linear or Logarithmic scale?

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             We all live in an exponential world, and many of the market analyzers use that fact  in their analysis.

The main problem comes from fact, that sometimes analyzers use linear, sometimes logarithmic graph.

            You can't use log scale and make linear calculations, and the opposite.

              Have a look at the both graphics bellow:

                            

               At first hand they look totally different, and have nothing common. More observant of you have already noticed, that on both is DJ 30.

               Here is an interesting example:

 

              Let's suppose that you have invested $1000 in General Electric for $8 per share in 1995, it makes 125 shares. For two years the price rises to $16 and you cover the long, taking $8 profit per share in the pocket, which makes 100% profit.

             Few years later the price rises to $30, and you decide to buy your favorite instrument again. But this time you spend $1000 to buy only 33 shares. However, the price is going higher, reaching $60 in 2000. Then you decide to sell again, taking profit $30 per share, which is 100% profit again. Visually the spread between the blue lines is four times wider than the red ones. It's easy to make a mistake, that the second trade's profit is four times bigger. It is so, because the graphic is linear.

            Here is the same GE logarithmic scale example:

                             

      I have calculated GE Fibonacci retracement levels of the move from $8 to $60 in both ways:

Fibo                         38.2%	50%	61.8%
Linear                     38.9	33	27.1
Logarithmic       27.21	21.54	17.05

        If we follow the linear calculating, could make a conclusion that GE's 61.8%Fibo retrace is nearly ($27.10)  of its rising up, and as an ewavers using Fibonacci tool to expect bounce up again.

        The picture is totally different, if we have calculated that correction in logarithmic way. It is obvious, that 61.8% of the correction is nearly $17, and there is more dropping down.

                                                                
                                       The main question is:  Which scale to use?

•  If we are daytraders, can use both, because the difference  is very small.
•  If we are swing or longer term traders or investors- the linear one.

        P.S. The prices now differs , I just use an example graphs.