Nifty Point and Figure analysis: Only price… Har baar!!

Only price… Har baar!!

Date: 12^th May 2014

As we enter to the very important week being results of the 2014 General elections to be declared on the coming Friday, a trader must be aware that he has to deal with internal noise as well along with external. We are also a normal citizen along with a trader. Expectations of both should not be mixed and duties of both are different. Knowledge for one is noise for another. Wish of one should not be the reason of other to trade. Exit polls to be out on Monday will assure the happening week with various news, rumors coming in that will affect the price and increase the volatility.

Price Analysis:

Figure 1 10 box value P&F chart plotted with closing prices. A very rare expanding pattern is formed in this chart. A bullish broadening pattern was followed by Bearish Broadening formation when box value of 6660 was plotted on last Wednesday. Upon backtesting I found that there are only two occurrences of this kind of bearish pattern in the uptrend (above 20 columns SMA) in Nifty chart and both of them were failed.

Past occurrences of Bearish Broadening after Bullish Broadening:

Short Entry	Date	Short Exit	Date	G/L%
5616.11	16-11-07	5735.21	12-12-07	-2.12%
5590.92	09-11-12	5761.06	06-12-12	-3.04%

I wrote on Twitter about this and that the appearance of ‘X’ would be exciting. Knowing the occurrence of non-profitable bearish pattern in the uptrend is certainly an important information. ‘X’ appeared on Friday in style. And now this has become a seriously expanding pattern with another higher leg. The setup is certainly bullish and count of 7160 is active.

Figure 2 is 10 box value P&F chart plotted with High Low prices. Price bounced from critical Fib level and 20 column Moving average line with Double top Buy pattern. It is also a bear trap pattern that suggests that traders who shorted on downside breakout is stuck and trapped.  Figure 3 is 1 box chart of box value 10. Price above 6710 is a breakout from OSB pattern which is significant news.

Chart setup is certainly bullish and trading above bullish lines. But challenge this time even for experienced traders is to deal with the external noise and mood swings. Such multi-column expanding pattern right before election result reflects the confusion among the participants and difficulty of traders with whipsaws of the systems. So price has also generated some noise during last several days. Friday move in that sense is quiet satisfying because price seems to have cleared the direction. These setups in uptrend are definitely bullish.

In brief:

Not only ab ki baar... but har baar price should be the sole reason trade.And If that is the case, we are entering just another week! 

I would recommend to trade and remain long unless price closes below 6650. Missing any appearance of ‘X’ in this kind of a chart setup is a sin. There are only two reasons to exit longs, Double Bottom sell or High Pole bearish pattern. And fresh shorts can only be traded below 6650 being below bullish objective line.

 

Figure 1: Nifty 10 x 3 CL Point and Figure Chart

Figure 2: Nifty 10 x 3 HL Point and Figure Chart

Figure 3: Nifty 0.15%, 0.25% and 1% P&F charts

                            

 -  Prashant Shah, CMT, CFTe

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