A textbook move catches out the Dow's bears

The battle between the bulls and the bears is currently being won by the bulls as the Dow Jones provides a textbook example of how counter-trend moves within a larger bear market can catch traders out.

The Dow is providing a textbook example of how powerful counter-trend moves within a larger bear market can catch many traders out and can extend much farther than most expect.

On Monday, I pointed out that many traders had jumped onto the short bandwagon because the economic "fundamentals" had worsened.

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John is is a British-born lapsed PhD physicist, who previously worked for Nasa on the Mars exploration team. He is a former commodity trading advisor with the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission, and worked in a boutique futures house in California in the 1980s.

 

He was a partner in one of the first futures newsletter advisory services, based in Washington DC, specialising in pork bellies and currencies. John is primarily a chart-reading trader, having cut his trading teeth in the days before PCs.

 

As well as his work in the financial world, he has launched, run and sold several 'real' businesses producing 'real' products.