The Dow extends to another major resistance level

After a huge, unexpected rally this week, where will the Dow go next? John C Burford investigates and suggests the best way to play its next move.

We now have the market's initial reaction to the eurozone bail-out plan and it was extremely bullish. Many bearish traders were caught out and took big losses.

Yesterday, I showed all three of my markets had reached important Fibonacci levels in the morning. By the close of play, those levels had been swept away, overcoming any resistance they represented like a steamroller over a tin can!

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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.