Morning Market Brief 11th Nov. 2020

The Benchmark KSE100 index had faced rejection from resistant trend line of its descending wedge during last trading session and have moved downward to fill its gap, mean while index have completed 50% correction of its yesterday's spike on same day. As of now it's expected that index would initial take a dip to complete its deep correction and would try to establish ground between 41,000pts-40,800pts where it would try to find ground above a strong horizontal supportive region. For day trading it's recommended to start buying on dip with strict stop loss of 40,600pts. It's expected that index would start recovery before day end and it would try to retest its resistant region today or tomorrow. It would remain in uncertain region until it would not succeed in closing above 42,000pts because below that its being capped by two major resistant objects, initially resistant trend line of its descending wedge would react as major resistant region around 41,600pts while in case index would succeed in penetration above this then it would face next resistance around 41,800pts where a daily double top would try to cap bullish sentiment. Therefore it's recommended to stay cautious and post trailing stop loss on existing long positions until index would not succeed in closing above 42,000pts.

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