Coal Climax Run? Caution Flag Waves

What have been up more then 100% since April? Coal stocks. But, all the heavy hitters have reversed off early morning session highs today with increasingly heavy volume. It is time to wave the caution flag.

A climax run is when a leading stock opens the day at new highs and reverses on extremely heavy volume to close down. This huge volume, highly volatile day typically comes after the stock has had a very big price run up over the last month or longer.

Below I have three leading coal stocks to show. Especially take a look at JRCC's stock chart and look at the volume today, which is the highest it has been since August of 2007.

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Comments

  1. Posted by Market Folly on June 19, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    yup good call. big reversals look to be coming here, as its well due for a pullback and only healthy.

  2. Posted by Blain Reinkensmeyer on June 19, 2008 at 10:40 pm

    That is a good point I should have mentioned, only healthy for these coal stocks. Should be interesting to watch.

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