Here’s Why Trendlines are Your New Best Friend, Part 3
September 22, 2014 8:25 amVideo
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Have you ever seen Donald Duck play pool? Trust us, it isn’t pretty.
An expert pool player, on the other hand — well, he can just look at the billiards table and imagine lines drawn out, marking the trajectory the cue ball must take to make the shot.
Now, what if you could just look at a financial market’s price chart — and see actual lines drawn out that aim straight for the “pocket” of opportunity?
According to our resident Monthly Commodity Junctures editor and chief commodity analyst Jeffrey Kennedy, you can.
All you need to do is implement a tried-and-true tool of technical analysis known as trendlines. (And let’s just say, what Paul Newman is to the game of pool in the Hustler, Jeffrey Kennedy is to the field of technical analysis in real life.)
In part 1 of our series, we showed you how Jeffrey used trendlines to identify a major break-out point in cocoa back in May 2014. Part 2 played the video of Jeffrey’s April 2014 corn forecast, where he used trendlines to fortify his bearish wave count — right before corn prices embarked on a powerful sell-off to 4-year lows.
Today, we’re returning to that April 2014 Monthly Commodity Junctures video to show you 3 more examples of how Jeffrey used trendlines to “call the pocket” in coffee, sugar, and the U.S. dollar. Roll the tape!
Of coffee, Jeffrey said: “We can expect a counter-trend move back to near the previous fourth wave extreme, roughly say between 170 and 160.
Coffee prices indeed sold off in three waves (i.e. counter-trend action) to the “previous fourth wave extreme” after breaking through the lower boundary of the trend channel:
Of sugar, Jeffrey said: “Once complete, wave (Y) of the larger fourth wave will give way to additional selling to back below the actual 2014 low.”
Here’s what happened to sugar prices after they fell below their trendline:
Of the U.S. dollar, Jeffrey said: “Ideally we’ll begin to see this third wave move [up] develop soon… in a nice, volatile move to the upside.”
The dollar indeed rallied strongly off that trendline:
It’s safe to say, once you truly understand the risk-managing power of trendlines, they will become one of the most valuable tools in your technical toolbox. And nobody can attest to that fact more than Jeffrey Kennedy.
In fact, Jeffery loves trendlines so much, he wrote a book about them. Well, a free eBook — titled “Trading the Line: 5 Ways You Can Use Trendlines to Improve Your Trading.”
As the title of Jeffrey’s eBook states, there are 5 ways trendlines improve your trading:
Want to learn how to draw your own trendlines — and gain an advantage you’ve never had before?
Right now, we are offering the entire 17-page eBook (14 of those pages include Jeffrey’s carefully chosen charts and analysis) as part of our FREE trader resources. Once you join the 325,000-plus members of our Club EWI family, it’s yours for the reading — at absolutely no cost.