Update: Two worrisome chart breakdowns look to have been invalidated

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Head and shoulders patterns don’t always work out

Beware of textbook chart patterns.

Charts that are nearly ‘perfect’ have a habit of not working out.

Last week I highlighted a potential head and shoudlers top in CAD/JPY, which had been one of the best trades in FX this year.

I even warned in the post that the “chart is almost too textbook”.

What happened? It spun around in a hurry. After spiking lower the following day it pulled off an intraday reversal and has since jumped higher.

The story is similar in copper, which is back up to $4.23/lb after falling to $3.95 in Thursday’s trade.

Was there any way of seeing it coming? For me this is a great example of why the fundamentals are so important. Even as I was writing about the charts, I didn’t beleive we’d see a breakdown.

Counter to the charts, I think we’re going to get past delta. Highly
vaccinated places are seeing a reversal in cases and even in hard hit
parts of the US, there’s a loss of momentum.

The trick was trading it and I think the two big clues at the end of last week were that intraday reversal along with the Fed’s Kaplan expressing doubts on a September taper.
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