Morning Market Brief 21st Oct. 2021
Technical Overview
The Benchmark KSE100 index had continued its bullish journey during last trading session and it succeeded in crossing another mile stone by closing above 45,430pts. As of now it's expected that index would try to target 45,760pts initially and if it would succeed in penetration above this region then next target would be 45,980pts. It's recommended to stay cautious and post trailing stop loss on existing long positions because index have a strong resistant region ahead where its being capped by a descending trend line, meanwhile hourly momentum indicators are ready for bearish crossover which indicates that if index would not succeed in penetration above its resistant regions then an intraday dip could be witnessed. On flip side in case of rejection from its resistant regions index would try to establish ground above 45,100pts and breakout below this region would call for 44,860pts.

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