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NASDAQ HITS FOUR-YEAR HIGH

Chip Anderson

Chip Anderson

President, StockCharts.com

The chart below shows the Nasdaq Composite having hit a new four-year high this week. It's now trading at the highest level since the spring of 2001. There's another shelf of potential resistance to watch at 2328 (see circle), but the action has been impressive. That also continues the trend of higher lows and higher lows that started in the fourth quarter of 2002. Some of our readers have asked, however, about a price pattern that's been forming since the start of 2004 that's marked off by the two converging trendlines shown on the chart.

Chip Anderson
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