Catch This MasterCard Move

I remember SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) being relatively boring in July. It was actually in a sideways move that month as I watched some Fibonacci time cycles that suggested a breakout one way or another. But, on July 25, a price decision was finally made when a gap to the upside took out the July 13 swing high. Our next move, therefore, was to consider buying on the next pullback. Some of these parameters were discussed in my late-August piece.

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If anyone out there missed this move in the GLD, this old chart is not meant to make anyone feel bad about that fact. Rather, it's meant to explain my thought process for the next possible move in another chart -- that of MasterCard (MA), in which I'm seeing a similar pattern. After a fair amount of sideways activity, this stock is finally breaking out nicely above a prior swing high that took place Aug. 14....224 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.

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