However, near-term trading, overall, remains choppy, sideways and within a well-defined range on the daily chart.
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Technically, December gold futures prices closed near mid-range Wednesday on more chart consolidation.
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Executives identified a broad range of risks (see chart below), from volatile commodity prices (which 43% considered a major challenge), to protectionism (31%), to piracy (just 7%).
August gold futures bulls and bears are still fighting for near-term technical control, with neither gaining much of an edge, as seen by the recent choppy and sideways trading range on the daily bar chart.
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The monthly chart shows the trading range that developed from 2004 through early 2009, line a.
The daily chart shows a broad trading range (lines f and g) over the past month.
The daily chart shows a broad trading range, lines f and g, which goes back to June.
The daily chart shows a broad trading range (lines b and c) since the early September highs.
December silver futures prices closed near mid-range Tuesday and saw profit taking and chart consolidation after hitting a seven-week high on Monday.
Comex gold futures prices ended the U.S. day session modestly higher as choppy and range-bound trading continues on the daily chart.
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The first chart in Exhibit 2 shows the range of forecasts as of May 2009 going from -0.4% to around 3.5% annually.
The weekly chart of SOXX shows a broad trading range (lines a and b) that goes back to 2010.
One stock in the health care provider group is WellCare Health Care Plans ( WCG), and the daily chart shows a nine-month trading range (line h) that was resolved to the upside in early January 2011.
The weekly chart appears to be forming a broadening trading range (lines a and b).
The yearly chart of the Dollar Index shows that its range has been narrowing over the past eight years.
September silver futures prices this week produced a big and bullish upside breakout from a sideways and choppy trading range that had been in place on the daily bar chart.
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As the chart indicates, it was basically a trading range year with the Dow Industrials starting at 975.3, hitting a high of 1026 in September, and finishing the Dragon year at 940.3.
Heading out to the range or the course each spring is like a living growth chart.
The weekly chart shows a more than four-month trading range (lines e and f).
Chart Analysis : GMCR broke out of its trading range on February 3 after beating earnings estimates.
Yet a chart in dollar terms shows gold meandering in a range.
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Haqq-Misr for the journal Acta Astronautica examines a broad range of scenarios, many familiar to science-fiction buffs (see chart, below).
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The weekly chart of Abbott Laboratories ( ABT) shows a contracting trading range over the past two years, lines a and b.
Chart Analysis : The weekly chart of the Spyder Gold Trust ( GLD) shows the tight range in May and June that was followed by the completion of the triangle or flag formation (lines a and b) at the start of September.
The daily chart of the SPDR Gold Trust ( GLD) shows a very broad trading range over the past three weeks.
Chart Analysis: The Spyder Trust ( SPY) broke out of its six trading range Thursday indicating that the correction was now over.
The weekly chart shows the sharp drop in BZF early in 2012 before it developed a trading range, lines a and b.
Chart Analysis : The Select Sector SPDR Consumer Discretionary ( XLY) had a very tight range last week as it formed a doji.
With the market roughly in the middle of its trading range from the past few months, many traders and analysts were focused largely on the technical-chart picture.
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