Monday, March 15, 2010

Technical Commentary 03/15/10

Good evening everyone. FBMKLCI continues its downtrend today for the 3rd day. It opens flat with 1311.99 and started to fall all the way down from 9:06 am to 10:10am. It was then started to go sideway until the closing at 1299.67 ((-11.53, -0.88%). The intraday low was at 1298.75 (-12.45) and the intraday high was at 1313.3 (+2.18). There are 211 up counters and 461 down counters with the market total traded volume increased by 6.7% to 764.5 mil shares however it is still below the 40 days VMA.

Today’s FBMKLCI only has 4 leading components, they are Astro, UMW, GENTING, and BJTOTO, while the top 5 lagging components are TM, IOICORP, KLK, GENTING, and PBBANK.

FBMKLCI Technical Indicators

KLCI candlestick had dipped below the mid-band now and the Bollinger band further contracted by -14%. This indicates FBMKLCI is under short-term correction stage and it is bearish biased now. If it further dipped below the BBMB with the BB open, then the short term view of FBMKLCI will be bearish biased.

RSI had dipped below 70 and closed at 67.55. This indicates that FBMKLCI is getting bearish now for short-term.

STC %K further decreases to 50 threshold closes at 31.01 and the %D further decreases to 68.95. This indicates FBMKLCI is getting bearish now due to heavy correction was continued today.

MACD maintains above zero level but started to hook down and the histogram was started to form a rounding top scenario. This may suggest further correction until a rounding bottom is form.

The overall market technically is under short-term correction and the market is bearish biased. The nearest possible resistance levels are 1308 and the BBMB around 1305. The nearest possible support levels are 1292 and 1280. After we encountered 2 long RED candles for 2 days, we expect a technical rebound either late tomorrow or Wed. We might see 1292 provides a firm support and rebound from this level for short term. Please refer to the chart below for more information.