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Oil Service stocks have been one of the few (non-tech related) areas of the market that have continued rising against the majority of market sectors that have been mired in bear markets.

We try to identify buying and/or selling opportunities by anticipating significant turning points before they occur. We think this is one of those opportunities where, while the trend remains bullish, we see some reasons that warn that this trend could be close to ending. This means that in our opinion, investors who are already invested in this area should be on heightened awareness for a potential bearish trend reversal. For those who are not already invested here, it is too late to jump aboard now.

While these stocks have been in a sustained uptrend, they have so far risen to a Fibonnacci .618 retracement of the devastating losses they endured from their 11/97, 140 high to their 3/99, 47.14 low. This retracement of about 2/3 is very typical of a bear market rally.

Looking at the three indicators below the daily price chart, Stochastics and MACD are making lower highs against the higher prices creating bearish divergence’s. Well above 70%, RSI is overbought, as are the other two. With prices also stretched into major resistance and above the bullish resistance line, the odds now indicate that further gains are unsustainable. While this does NOT mean that further upside progress must end, the evidence suggests that we should anticipate that it will soon.

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