Morning Market Brief 6th Oct. 2020

The Benchmark KSE100 index is moving downward by expanding its intraday corrections on daily basis and impact of weekly evening shooting start have taken index towards correction of its last bullish rally and expansion of its rising wedge in downward direction. As of now it's expected that index would continue its bearish sentiment during current trading session because daily momentum indicators have entered into negative zone and these would try to drag index initially towards 38,700pts to 38,500pts while breakout of this region in downward direction would call for 38,200pts and 37,500pts. Initially 50% correction of recent bullish rally would be completed at 38,000pts and if index would succeed in sliding below 37,500pts then next target would be 36,500pts, while 38% correction of this complete wave would be completed around 36,800pts. Daily MACD have entered into negative zone while stochastic and RSI also have penetrated below 30 and 20 respectively and this indicates that index would start a new bearish journey if it would not succeed in bouncing back from 38,700-38,500pts region. While on flip side in case of bullish reversal index would face major resistances at 39,700pts which would be followed by 40,200pts. On short term basis index would be considered bearish until it would not succeed in closing above 40,500pts.

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