very good analysis applepie, I'm a fan of Bob and I understand the point that you learn as you go, athough it would be tough to come up with the historical stuff that that Bob and Ross come up with , for instance the outside reversal in 08.

If you look back on safehaven or FSN archieves for 08 at alot of the TA writers, they either use TA in isolation or are hardcore goldbugs so their EW counts were showing new highs/lows in gold/dollar for the summer, it seemed to be left to Bob Hoye, Tim Wood to call it as it was, as I didnt pay particular attention to Frank B so I cant remember how he called things. though it does sound like he was more defensive

I think the problem is that the big solid trends are over for now , we are going to be in a messy correction phase with possible new leg down in April. The gains maybe muted and may even leave the juniors behind in this run.