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Baltic Dry Index... Not exactly mouthwatering....!

Greg Schnell

Greg Schnell

Chief Technical Analyst, Osprey Strategic

This chart represents the shipping of dry goods. 6 year chart.

$BDI 20120530
Many people disregard this indicator as the ships ordered in 2007 bull market have been delivered over the past few years creating too large a fleet for demand. That said, the $BDI rallied off the October low. To see it roll over at the former support resistance line (red line) is BAD! Flat out Bad! This commodity space indicator is not healthy and the recent bounce was off the 2009 lows. Iceberg dead ahead? Keep watching $copper. Copper is making lower lows most weeks. 

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Good Trading,

Greg Schnell, CMT

 

Greg Schnell
About the author: , CMT, MFTA is Chief Technical Analyst at Osprey Strategic specializing in intermarket and commodities analysis. He is also the co-author of Stock Charts For Dummies (Wiley, 2018). Based in Calgary, Greg is a board member of the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts (CSTA) and the chairman of the CSTA Calgary chapter. He is an active member of both the CMT Association and the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA). Learn More