twl2009 wrote:
Jackozy
Although I try not to bring fundamentals into this, I think the RNS in mid april brought a sea change to XEL. The initial spike reacting to the good news in the RNS and the subsequent decline due to the new timeframe in the same RNS.
I am sure that the chart would have done something completely different since then if not for this RNS, Ive no idea what , but something different.
How do you allow for this in EWT or do you completely ignore it.??
Sorry if this is a boring question that gets asked a lot.
Fundamentals are always used as the reason for price movement in AIM stocks (and sometimes it might even be responsible for it!) but it's funny how often the news comes just when the TA suggests a move is needed.
It's also quite odd how, when there is price movement without news, "investors" seem to invoke all sorts of behind the scenes news (II secret info/politics/news is just about to come etc etc) whereas in reality, the price moved off a technical level.
It's always easy in hindsight, of course, to say that such and such a move was required by EWT. The trick is to foresee it and that's far harder. In the case of the 8th April news for XEL, it appears now that it was a wave 2 up. Was it possible to predict it? I don't know, but 83p to 127p (and the failure to get to 139p) appeared to be 3 waves. This might have indicated that a 5 wave move was to follow in which case we might have forecast the move just as it played out.
The problem with looking back and saying "Was this down to TA or the news that came?" is that we'll never know and it's an argument that it's impossible to conclusively win either way. Personally, I don't bother with the news other than out of occasional curiosity these days. My experience has taught me that it almost never pays to follow the fundamentals. It was a lesson that was hard learnt but they're the most important ones.
I just don't think you can ever say "Ahh, but, were it not for this good news, or that bad news, then the chart would look different!". The fact is that the charts look the way they do. People can also interpret news in different ways. The one thing you absolutely cannot argue with is the price history. That's really the thing that's telling you what's going on.