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SA40 Cash Index Review

The index remains overbought.

  • Those traders using a close below the one day low as trailing stop would now have banked their profits
  •  The projected target  from the previously highlighted range breakout at 52750 has not yet been realised
  • The last four days show the price consolidating in a new narrow range (highlighted blue)
  • The fact that the index keeps correcting in a sideways fashion indicates weak selling pressure and an eagerness for buyers to get back involved, i.e. these small sideways corrections reinforce a bullish bias to the market
  • The index remains overbought but the signal is against the underlying uptrend which we still consider more valid
  • For now we are market neutral but looking for a long re-entry from between levels 52180 and 51928

SA40 CASH INDEX 26 OCTOBER

  1. The blue arrow shows that the upside breakout from the short term range has now occurred and the uptrend is now being continued once again
  2.  The projected target  (52340) from our medium term consolidation  has now been realised
  3. The height of the short term consolidation projected arrives at our next upside target favoured at 52750
  4. Those who have caught the breakout might have difficulty in assessing the best level to utilise as a stop level
  5. The nice follow through in gains today would suggest using today’s opening level as the stop loss level, which in most cases (for those committed) should equate to a risk free trade from here. After today, tightening the stop loss level to a close below the one day low might be a consideration (trailing stop)
  6. For trend followers not yet committed to the long side, a pullback to 51928 is now considered a possible long entry point

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