Morning Market Brief 15th Jan. 2021

The Benchmark KSE100 index is facing rejection from resistant trend line of its bullish price channel on hourly chart since last week along with a major horizontal resistant region on weekly chart and now index have penetrated below a supportive trend line inside this channel during last trading session. Meanwhile hourly momentum indicators were under pressure and now daily sentiment is trying to convert its direction towards bearish side but it depends on today's closing, being last day of the week today's closing matters a lot. For current trading session it's expected that index would try to establish ground above yesterday's low to format a daily double bottom but if it would succeed in sliding below 45,800pts then its next target would be 45,500pts where it would got support from another strong horizontal supportive region. While on flip side in case of reversal index would face initial resistance at 46,350pts which would be followed by 46,500pts-46,650pts region. It's recommended to stay cautious and post trailing stop loss on existing long positions because if index would succeed in sliding below 45,500pts then sentiment would change completely which would push index for a correction, meanwhile weekly indicators would become under pressure which would be negative for bulls in coming days.

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