Richard Chappell

Jack is a 20 year retail trading veteran and co-founder of The Art Of Chart. He started his blog at channelsandpatterns.net in 2010 and since has published tens of thousands of charts looking at hundreds of trading instruments across most tradeable markets, doing original work mainly in the areas of trendlines, patterns and divergences. At The Art Of Chart Jack has taught trading skills, technical analysis, and the discipline and trader psychology that allow those to be used effectively in trading.

Possible Topping Action Here

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I was looking at the resistance trendlines on SPX and NDX last week and while I was off on Friday SPX tested the resistance trendline there. Of those four signals, only ES hasn't yet made the possible near miss target, though it isn't far away, and may well reach that this morning without declining much...

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Still Testing Strong Resistance

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]SPX has made new all time highs as expected and has gone to the resistance level I was talking about in my post a week ago. In the meantime though that trendline has risen and looks to be in the 4465-70 area now. There is no need to test that trendline, but it is strong...

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What If … We See SPX Retest 3800

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Everything is in the groove from my post yesterday. NDX and ESTX50 made new all time highs yesterday. SPX and Dow made new all time highs today, RUT retested the August high today, making the second high of a possible double top. Only DAX looks slightly short of a new all time high but that...

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Retesting Strong Resistance Here

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]SPX and NDX held the strong resistance they were testing a week ago, retraced a bit, and are now close to testing them again. I have been expecting new all time highs on both, and NDX has made a new all time high today, but SPX is still a bit short and likely needs to...

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Testing Strong Resistance Here

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Apologies for the extended absence again as my interminable divorce drags on. That's making progress though at least and in a few months at most should be done. In the meantime I posted my premarket video at theartofchart.net from this morning on my twitter in the morning and on indices so far at least that...

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Watching For 4400-10

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I've been distracted this week by a divorce hearing yesterday morning, but that's out of the way now and I'm doing two posts today. This first one is talking about short term upside targets across SPX, NDX, IWM and INDU and the second one later today will be looking at the bigger picture case for...

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The Next Upside Targets

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Obviously SPX broke up at the last inflection point and may well be on the way to the resistance trendline I mentioned in my last post, currently in the 4400 area. I'm still leaning towards seeing a decent backtest of the 4000 area over the summer sometime and ideally that backtest would reach the 3800...

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The Next Inflection Point

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I remember a reader describing me a few years ago as an 'if, then' analyst, and that was a pretty decent description, as nothing is ever certain and markets move from one inflection point to the next, where there is another 'if, then' decision to be made. I was talking in my last post about...

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A Lot Of H&S Patterns Forming

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I was looking at something unusual in my premarket video at theartofchart.net this morning and that was a large number of H&S patterns both bearish and bullish. I don't generally post my work here outside the equity indices but I'll make an exception today as these are worth a look, and all really coming out...

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SPX Topping Options

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Friday was very weak, particularly for a big opex Friday, and SPX broke down through the daily middle band, currently 4215 area, the 50dma, currently 4183 area, and on ES even briefly broke down below the monthly pivot. We are seeing a rally this morning and I was giving the ideal rally high area on...

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