TECHNICAL ANALYSIS WITH CANDLESTICK CHARTS

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS WITH CANDLESTICK CHARTS – 18 JANUARY 2022

- January 18, 2022

Asia Pacific stocks were mostly up on Tuesday morning. The Shanghai Composite is up 0.61% at 3,563.73. Overall, the Singapore MSCI up 0.12% at 344.80. Over in Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index down 0.23% at 24,135.00. In Japan, the Nikkei 225 is down 0.32% at 28,250.00, while the Topix index is up 0.53% at 1977.50. South Korea’s Kospi down 0.89% to 2864.24. Australia S&P/ASX 200 down 0.11% at 7408.80.

European equities Monday closing. The DAX futures contract in Germany traded up 0.32% at 15933.72, CAC 40 futures up 0.82% at 7201.65 and the UK 100 futures contract in the U.K. up 0.91% at 7,611.24.

In U.S. on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 0.56% at 35911.82. The S&P 500 up 0.08% at 4662.84 and the Nasdaq 100 up 0.75% at 15611.59, NYSE closes down 0.23% at 17219.06.

In the Forex market, GBPUSD down 0.05% at 1.36369. The USDJPY up 0.26% at 114.905. The USDCHF up 0.22% at 0.9152. EURUSD down 0.04% at 1.13982, EUR/GBP up 0.06% at 0.8358. The USD/CNY down 0.08% at 6.3434 at the time of writing.

In the commodity market U.S. Gold futures down 0.11% at $1,816.59. Elsewhere, Silver futures up 0.11% at $22.961 per ounce, Platinum down 0.26% at $969.00 per ounce, and Palladium up 0.29% at $1881.00.

Crude Oil up on Tuesday; Brent crude oil up 1.41% at $87.75 per barrel while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (CLc1) is up 1.27% at $84.74.

In the Cryptocurrency Markets, Bitcoin at 42314.35 up 0.14%, Ethereum down 0.24% at 3203.54, Litecoin at 147.80 down 2.36%, at the time of writing.