DJI 30 close to full uptrend continuation despite wedge

Dow Jones Index (US 30) is in a strong uptrend. Although price action has recently become quite slow and choppy.
A rising wedge pattern is visible as well. Will the bulls be able to push through resistance to keep the uptrend alive?
A bullish breakout could trigger strong momentum to the upside, because price action is breaking the wedge.

Chris Svorcik Elite CurrenSea

Price Charts and Technical Analysis

The US30 chart needs a break above the current high at 31,263 to confirm the uptrend.

A bearish break below the 21 ema zone, however, is not worrying for the bulls.

Price action could simply be making a deeper retracement.
A bullish bounce at the long trend line and moving averages is likely.
Only a deeper break below the long-term MAs could put the uptrend on pauze (yellow & red circles).

On the 1 hour chart, we can see that an ABC (orange) pattern has been completed at the 50% Fibonacci level. A bullish bounce seems to confirm the end of the wave 4 (green).

A bullish break above the resistance trend line (orange) could confirm the uptrend continuation. Main targets are located at $31,500 to $32,500.

The analysis has been done with the ecs.SWAT method and ebook.

Author

Chris Svorcik

Elite CurrenSea

Experience Chris Svorcik has co-founded Elite CurrenSea in 2014 together with Nenad Kerkez, aka Tarantula FX. Chris is a technical analyst, wave analyst, trader, writer, educator, webinar speaker, and seminar speaker of the financial markets.

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