The Dow is approaching a major tramline

The rally in the Dow has risen to the upper limits of its trading channel. John C Burford examines the charts to see if it is likely to break through.

Today should be eventful. The monthly US Federal Reserve meeting minutes will be released and the market will be reading it very carefully (and nervously).

The reason is very simple the market is fixated on what the Fed does or signals (or does not). The current QE (quantitative easing) programme of buying $85bn worth of bonds per month is under intense scrutiny right now.

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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.