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作者: 何鸿燊 时间: 2011-5-15 20:11 标题: Copper's Price Action Is a Bad Sign for Stocks

-- By Jeff Clark, Editor, S&A Penny Trends and The 12% Letter

Editor's Note: Stay tuned for next week, when Dr. Melvin Pasternak will return with his next Trade of the Week.

The breakdown in copper last week is a bad sign for stock prices.

Copper and the S&P 500 have been trading in tandem for the past few years. In fact, the price of copper seems to lead stock prices by about two weeks. Traders can use the action in copper to gauge buy and sell signals for stocks.

I wrote about this relationship several weeks ago. Back then, the S&P 500 had just suffered a sharp correction. But copper was bouncing off its lows. That was a good indication the stock market correction had run its course. Here's what I wrote at the time...

If you want to know where stocks are headed next, keep an eye on the chart of copper. Right now, copper's bumping into resistance near 440. If it breaks above that level, it should be able to challenge its February highs, and stocks should continue to rally.

On the other hand, if resistance holds, support at 420 becomes the critical level. But if copper fails to hold at support, the rally in stocks should fail as well.

Copper didn't hold up. It broke below critical support at 420 and is now resting on secondary support near 400. Take a look at this updated chart...

This is a bad sign for stocks. With copper now trading below its March-correction low, the S&P is likely to follow suit.

In other words, last week's selloff in stocks isn't just a one- or two-day affair. It's probably the start of a several-week correction that should push the S&P 500 below its March low of 1,254. Based on the following chart, 1,225 looks like a reasonable downside target...

Stocks have bounced a bit over the past couple days. And there may be a little more upside to the bounce ? if only to work off the oversold condition created by last week's decline. But unless copper rallies hard immediately, traders should sell stocks into any strength and use this as an opportunity to add short-side exposure.

It looks like there's more downside ahead for the stock market.

Best regards and good trading,

Jeff Clark

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作者: peachdream 时间: 2011-5-15 20:42

1# 何鸿燊
图片和题目不大相称啊. 又是人家的老婆?

作者: ychen222 时间: 2011-5-16 07:56

铜跌到现在的位置，下一步反弹的可能性很大。

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