A coronavirus panic-buy trade
Brits are panic buying all sorts of things now, but this one has been hitting the headlines.
12th March 2020 08:29
by Alistair Strang from Trends and Targets
Brits are panic buying all sorts of things now, but this one has been hitting the headlines.
Kimberly-Clark (NYSE:KMB), owners of Andrex (the UK’s favourite toilet paper), must be laughing all the way to the loo, given UK public’ behaviour in response to coronavirus.
Unsurprisingly, it looks like it shall need more than this country’s irrational behaviour to save NYSE:KMB from being flushed. But first, some bumf.
As for Kimberly-Clark share price, it looks like weakness now below 131 should drive reversal to an initial 125 dollars. If (when) broken, we suspect it shall bottom at 105 dollars and hopefully rebound.
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France, the CAC40, is looks a bit fraught. We last covered it in August 2019, giving criteria for reversal to 4,728 points. It finally triggered reversal at the end of February and since has been pretty much as expected, if rather fast. The index has now closed three sessions solidly below target, so we must dwell of downward potentials for the future.
The immediate situation is fairly blunt, the index requiring above 4,990 points just to regain the prior uptrend. With the strength of downward commitment, we have our doubts.
Instead, it appears weakness now below 4,600 should bring reversal to an initial 4,533. We’d hope for a real rebound at such a level as the implication below is quite dreadful. The secondary calculation comes in at 4,358 points, taking the market to a “lower low” (yes, we’re getting fed up writing this) and placing the French index at risk of continuing downhill in the longer term to a bottom of 3,094 points.
Of course, given the pace of recent reversals, “the longer term” could easily mean sometime next week!
Source: Trends and Targets Past performance is not a guide to future performance
Alistair Strang has led high-profile and "top secret" software projects since the late 1970s and won the original John Logie Baird Award for inventors and innovators. After the financial crash, he wanted to know "how it worked" with a view to mimicking existing trading formulas and predicting what was coming next. His results speak for themselves as he continually refines the methodology.
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Alistair Strang has led high-profile and "top secret" software projects since the late 1970s and won the original John Logie Baird Award for inventors and innovators. After the financial crash, he wanted to know "how it worked" with a view to mimicking existing trading formulas and predicting what was coming next. His results speak for themselves as he continually refines the methodology.
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