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Fibonacci retracements have worked like a dream of late in the Dow, and they’re currently causing our recent bullishness a bit of trouble. Let’s first of all reproduce the commentary we’ve put out today for the Dow:

Now lets go through that and work out what Fibonacci has got to do with it. We have several articles on this blog and in our Website members area concerning Fibonacci so this time round I’ll just assume that you’re happy with the idea that when a market is in recovery mode it quite often recovers 38.2% or 61.8% of the previous move. The sell off from January 6th to March 6th took us from 9048 to 6460. The 38.2% retrace of this move is 7450. See how this featured as a target once we started rallying. The 61.8% retrace of this same move is 8060. This, again referencing back to our commentary, was the next target once 7450 was seen off. We hit this level today. In fact it’s the high of the day. This is a slight worry. This may be just a temporary “blip”, and this is how we’ll treat it for now. But there is now a chance we can move back to 7450, and if this level were to break we’d have to forget being bullish and look for further weakness, back to 7071. We don’t expect any selling from here to get below 7450, let alone 7071 (for lots of other reasons besides the Fibonacci work). But If it did we’re totally wrong about the March low being THE low. You can see the symmetry of these numbers in harmony from the charts we’ve posted. Because today’s high is BANG ON the 61.8% retracement of the Jan-Mar sell-off, the 38.2% retrace of the recovery is EXACTLY THE SAME as the old 38.2% retrace (of the Jan-March selling): 7449. One last interesting thing that will shape the bigger picture outlook: The 38.2% retrace of the selling seen between May 2008 and March 9th is up at 9012. And what is the year’s high from January, the start of the last big down-leg? 9048… Making for a pretty important area of resistance, wouldn’t you say? Have a good week.

Someone should buy Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson a pair of super-hero suits, because they’ve come to the rescue again!

Back in March (the last time were down at these levels) they stepped in to rescue the markets when they were on key Fibonacci support levels… Today I’m going to post the mail I sent out to all of our professional clients and contacts at that time. You may get a feeling of Deja vu reading this:

“Anyone who looks at Dollar/Yen will know that the BoJ intervene at key technical levels. THEY LOOK AT CHARTS.

I mooted something in the Bund report this morning that may have had a few people questioning my sanity; the idea that the Fed are stepping in to hold Equities above key supports.

Let’s look at the evidence: The last big move from the Fed was the 75 bps cut in January, just when the S&P was threatening to shank through 1281.70, the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement of the March 2003 - October 2007 rally. A BIG LEVEL!

They did the same thing yesterday when we were once again back at these levels.

In terms of the medium term technicals there is a strong argument that many people will be looking for weakness to 1187.50 then 1093 if this level breaks.

The key here isn’t whether this move can or will unfold; it’s the number of people who believe the story, and if intervention means the sell trigger doesn’t come, and a solid base of support is found, then the intervention would be deemed a success.

In the Dow Futures the corresponding KEY support is 11651.

In the NASDAQ it’s 1699″

The NASDAQ has done fine since then and isn’t threatening these key levels but the Dow and S&P dipped below them last week…. and Treasury and Fed stepped in…

More tomorrow. Watch this space.

PS. Follow this link for my latest CNBC appearance. I was making a point about not needing to “pick bottoms”. It could have been any number of charts from the Banking or Building Sectors, really, so no offence to Bradford and Bingley…