Punjab National Bank: Elliott Wave Counts, Channelized Move, Time Cycle, Fibonacci Retracements.
Banking stocks has
always been in demand especially from past 1 week which has pushed the Banking
index till 11947 from 10664 in five trading days. We have covered one of the
Banks which fall in this index which is PNB.
Punjab National Bank
is moving in a down ward sloping channel from past 3 years which clearly
suggests that the trend is negative as it is continuously moving below its
previous pivot lows as seen the below daily chart. We can also see that prices
have arrived near the resistance of the channel which is not a healthy sign for
this banking stock.
We have used time
cycle of 18 days to understand the possible reversal of this stock which comes
on 21st of March 2014. The important observation in time cycle is
after every 18 days it makes two bottoms followed by two tops. The 2 bottoms
before the making of the top were 24th February 2014 and 29th
January 2014.
We have also used
Elliott Wave analysis to find out the termination of the current wave on the
upside. For this to explain we need to go back and start from August 2013. From
August 2013, prices were moving in a double correction (a-b-c-x-a-b-c) and
completed wave X of one higher degree. Currently it is moving in wave A in
which it has completed wave a and wave b and currently it is moving up in wave
c. The overall formation from April 2013 till March 2014 is a double correction
of one higher degree. Where wave A was completed in April 2013 then we had wave
B in May 2013 followed by wave C in September 2013. Recently we had wave X in
January 2014 and currently we are moving in wave A which is a second
correction.
It is also important
to find out the resistance of this stock as it will give the rough idea for
traders to trade. Currently prices have arrived at 80% retracement of the
previous down move (654-509) which clearly states that the up move which is
wave c is in flat pattern. As there is no reversal in this stock we cannot jump
to the conclusion that it will fall from here. It can move up till 640 levels
which seems to be a very good resistance level for this stock.
In short, the trend
for PNB is negative any reversal can be utilized as a selling opportunity which
can drag prices lower till 580 levels over short term.
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