XLK Monthly: VPA Anomalies Show the Tech Rally Was Built on Sand

XLK Monthly: VPA Anomalies Show the Tech Rally Was Built on Sand

by David Coulling Comment Closed
XLK Monthly: VPA Anomalies Show the Tech Rally Was Built on Sand XLK is the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF. It tracks the technology sector of the S&P 500 and is heavily concentrated in a few mega-cap names. The top three holdings — typically NVIDIA, Apple and Microsoft — usually account for around 40% of the fund, while the top 10 make up roughly 65%. When you analyse XLK, you are largely analysing the price behaviour of the biggest technology stocks. You can read any chart with volume and price. On the monthly timeframe for XLK, the anomalies are glaring and simply confirm what many of us suspected and commented on at the time: the tech rally was built on sand. The hard evidence is sitting right there in the ETF itself. The Candles That Tell the Story Look first at the two candles of September and October last year (red arrows). These show the kind of action we expect in...
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How to avoid the market maker traps at the London open – so simple with volume price analysis

How to avoid the market maker traps at the London open – so simple with volume price analysis

by Anna Coulling Comment Closed
In this video we focus on the forex market and in particular at the London open. The currency pair we consider is the GBP/USD and for the 1 minute timeframe which shows the market makers setting their traps at the London open which are easy to spot using volume price analysis. 00:21 Introduction to Forex workspace and currency strength 00:21 The speaker introduces a change of scenery by switching to the forex workspace. They explain that this workspace is typically used to start with multiple currency strength indicators to identify market movements, including which currencies are strong, overbought, oversold, or moving together, helping to determine which are currently not of interest. 00:47 Strong buying in Yen and selling in Pound 00:47 The speaker discusses strong buying activity in the Japanese yen and strong selling in the British pound over the past hour during mid-morning in the UK. They highlight a profitable trading opportunity from the pound moving from an overbought position and the yen from an oversold position,...
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