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title: "Extensive Chart Festival"
url: https://independentstockanalysis.com/extensive-chart-festival/
description: "Charts to confirm and challenge the fundamental biases presented at Independent Stock Analysis : Stateside: House prices have gone positive year over…"
published: 2012-08-30
updated: 2012-08-30
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# Extensive Chart Festival

Published 2012-08-30

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J.J. Butler

Charts to confirm and challenge the fundamental biases presented at *Independent Stock Analysis*:

Stateside:

- House prices have gone positive year over year: [Business Insider](http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-case-shiller-house-prices-go-positive-2012-8).
- Showtime for the Nasdaq: [Kimble](http://blog.kimblechartingsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ndxnascompat50percentfiblevelsaug28.jpg). Bank stocks: [Kimble](http://blog.kimblechartingsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/bkxregionalresistanceaug292.gif). Breadth Remains Weak at [Bespoke](http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2012/8/30/breadth-remains-weak.html).
- Waiting on coal: Natural Gas is Fizzling by [Greg Harmon](http://dragonflycap.com/2012/08/29/natural-gas-is-fizzling/).

The industrialization of China meme continues to struggle:

- QE and emerging markets: [Ritholtz](http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/0827chart.jpg).
- Commodity and material breakdowns in the ‘industrialization of China’ meme: [Kimble](http://blog.kimblechartingsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/leadingindicator4packbreakingsupportaug30.gif).
- BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China) Continue to Underperform at [Bespoke](http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2012/8/29/brics-brazil-russia-india-china-continue-to-underperform.html).
- The iron ore crash: [Business Insider](http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-iron-ore-is-getting-destroyed-2012-8).
- Previously *ISA* has noted bearish copper charts. A neutral one: Copper in Limbo by [Greg Harmon](http://dragonflycap.com/2012/08/28/copper-in-limbo/).

Commodity bull Jim Rogers favorite sector is agriculture:

- An extensive look at soybeans by [Peter Brandt](http://peterlbrandt.com/chart-of-the-day-august-29-2012-soybeans/). Corn by [See It Market](http://www.seeitmarket.com/chartology-corn-technical-update/).
- How to Play Sky-High Corn Prices Without Getting Tangled Up In Messy Futures Contracts at [Ychats](http://ycharts.com/analysis/story/corn_prices_have_skyrocketed_but_your_saner_drought_play_could_be_related_stocks).
- “Water scarcity’s effect on food production means radical steps will be needed to feed population expected to reach 9bn by 2050” at the [Guardian](http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/aug/26/food-shortages-world-vegetarianism).

*Independent Stock Analysis* has long considered our world to be binary ([Reformed Broker](http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2012/08/29/an-asset-allocators-prayer/)). Are policy makers going to be easy enough? The next couple of weeks will be telling!

As an aside, a favorite technical analyst I follow is [ChessNwine](http://ibankcoin.com/chessnwine/).