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SPY channels higher

Arthur Hill

Arthur Hill

Chief Technical Strategist, TrendInvestorPro.com

Both the daily and 60-minute charts show SPY within rising channels. The daily chart captures the bigger uptrend, while the 60-minute chart captures the short-term uptrend. After an advance from 109 to 115 in 5-6 weeks, the ETF is short-term overbought and ripe for a pullback or consolidation. A breakdown on the 60-minute chart would provide the first signal that some sort of corrective process is beginning.

100114spyd The 60-minute chart sports a rising price channel is support at 113. After two bounces off this level and a higher high this week, I decided to raise support from 111 to 113. A move below 113 would break channel support and forge a lower low. This would reverse the current uptrend. Even if a short-term downtrend takes hold, keep in mind that the bigger trend will still be up. This could limit a pullback or make for choppy trading as the short-term bears and medium-term bulls slug it out.


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Arthur Hill
About the author: , CMT, is the Chief Technical Strategist at TrendInvestorPro.com. Focusing predominantly on US equities and ETFs, his systematic approach of identifying trend, finding signals within the trend, and setting key price levels has made him an esteemed market technician. Arthur has written articles for numerous financial publications including Barrons and Stocks & Commodities Magazine. In addition to his Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation, he holds an MBA from the Cass Business School at City University in London. Learn More