Harami Warns Farmers Of An Impending Collapse In Oat Prices

David drozd The Japanese are true pioneers of technical analysis of the markets. You may remember last month’s column where I illustrated the weekly canola chart and identified the two-week reversal that materialized at the height of the rally in early January. Similarly, another reversal pattern known as a harami also developed at the end

Canola Market Fails To Break Through Resistance

DAVID DROZD The rally that began in the canola market with the delayed harvest is over. The chart pat-t erns were textbook perfect in predicting the inevitable, which was for prices to peak in early January and turn lower. It all started with prices breaking down below the line of support (A) in December 2009.


Canadian Dollar Fails To Reach Par

The Canadian dollar was supposed to go par. At least this was the hype when the market peaked at .9798 on Oct. 15, 2009. When a commodity makes the headlines of major newspapers and magazines, it is often a telltale sign that it is near the end of the rally. When most consumers know that

Bearish USDA Report Coincides With Bearish Chart Pattern

David drozd Although technical analysts, such as myself, rely primarily on analyzing charts for determining price reversals and in forecast ing price direction, we do keep one eye on the fundamental information as well. I’ll have to admit though, that whenever technical and fundamental analysis are at odds, and they are more times than not,


Soybean Acreage Weighs On Meal Prices

Wh e n one studies many weekly bar charts, it becomes evident that prices over a period of several months are typically moving up or down. This direction is the long term or major trend of the market. Within the major trend there are a series of fluctuating price movements that can be of several

Harami Warns Farmers Of Impending Drop In Wheat Prices

David drozd As I have mentioned before in this column, the Japanese are true pioneers of technical analysis of the markets. Their techniques have evolved from fairly simple beginnings, trading forward rice contracts (futures) in the 17th century, to now include many sophisticated ways to analyze the markets, including the amazingly powerful modern-day charting method


T – for Mar. 5, 2009

he Japanese are regarded as the true pioneers of market technical analysis. They began trading forward rice contracts (Futures) in 1654 and over the next three centuries have developed many sophisticated ways to analyze the markets. One Japanese method of charting is called “Candlestick” because the individual lines resemble candles. While candlestick charts use the

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Resistance is a term used to describe a price level where the selling of futures contracts is expected to halt the current upward move in market price. On the daily charts, these areas will appear as well-defined price ranges within which the market previously traded essentially sideways (A), prior to making a decisive move down.


Canola’s upward advance stalls at resistance

David Drozd Resistance is a term used to describe a price level where the selling of futures contracts is expected to halt the current upward move in market price. On the daily charts, these areas will appear as well-defined price ranges within which the market previously traded essentially sideways (A), prior to making a decisive

Human nature causes history to repeat

David Drozd Recent volatile price action is similar to that seen in the early 1970s when markets realigned into a new higher trading range. Examining these more than three-decade-old patterns can reveal clues about future price direction; history often repeats itself because human nature never changes. If history should repeat, similar to trading patterns seen