Harry Boxer is author of TheTechTrader.com, a real-time diary of day and swing trades and technical market analysis.
Such a book needs both technical market knowledge and historical anecdote, and Mr Chancellor, a former investment banker who trained as a historian, carries the combination off well.
Each technology discussion includes technical and market status, costs of energy production, cost trends, policy environment, future projections, and analysis of prospects and hurdles to expansion.
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Since that period, I have been actively trading gold based on the technical pattern and market conditions, but maintained a net long position.
To compete with such pricing pressure, Marshalls has also bundled in technical services including expertise such as market-leading specification, technical and regulatory advice.
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What this chart does not reflect, however, is the influence of the high-yield market, which delivered a double-barrel technical boost to the loan market in August.
Most who try to blend their fundamental view of a market or stock with technical analysis often end up on the wrong side of the market.
That would be a significant, early technical clue that a market top is in place.
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Both fundamental and technical attributes of the market have changed since the onset of the credit crisis.
Silver bears still have the slight near-term technical advantage as this market also consolidates on the chart.
It uses a technical indicator that tracks market momentum reversals to better identify the entries and exits.
Gold and silver bulls are in near-term technical control as the market place awaits fresh fundamental inputs just ahead.
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Gold and silver bulls are still in near-term technical control as the market place awaits fresh fundamental inputs just ahead.
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The rise in gold reflects an improving technical posture for the market, which likely meant some short covering, Smith said.
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There is an absence of strong nearby technical support below the market.
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There was also fresh speculative buying interest that surfaced in gold Tuesday, as the near-term technical posture of the market has improved recently.
The firmer crude oil prices and the better technical posture of the market this week are a bullish factor for the precious metals.
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Price action in gold this week will be extra important as the bulls and bears struggle for near-term technical control of the market.
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Stack's technical read of the market continues to remain bullish, with advance-decline ratios and put-call ratios supporting the case for a continued advance in stocks.
From a technical standpoint, the market is reaching a critical juncture.
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"From a technical perspective, this market has bull written all over it, " says Stack, who also points to improving market breadth as a sign of recovery.
The bulls have near-term upside technical momentum as the market produced a technically bullish monthly high close on Tuesday, the last trading day of the month.
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The stock showed a positive technical divergence to the market yesterday by holding above its recent pivot low, while the indices all broke down through recent ranges.
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The bulls have near-term upside technical momentum as the market on Tuesday produced a technically bullish monthly high close on the last trading day of the month.
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These participants also cited potential for a technical correction in the market, with buyers perhaps hesitant to keep rushing in at the highs without some sort of pullback first.
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What we can say, however, is that the technical signs of the market do not look terribly good, especially the higher openings and the lower closings that dominated the trading activity during the week.
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The April-June period has been a tough time for stocks over the past three years as I reviewed last Friday, but the technical analysis of the market internals show no signs yet of a top.
Market weakness comes despite reduced technical pressure from the underlying U.S. Treasury market.
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