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The Other Kind of Broadening Formation

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NYSE:MMM   3M Company
In many of my posts, I highlight the rising broadening patterns that have emerged on many of today's popular tech stocks. These of course, once complete, are somewhat devastating to those patterns' underlyings. The price action tends to fall from those broadening patterns with some force.

However, significantly more rare in today's highly financialized bubble stock market is the converse pattern, the falling broadening pattern. And with 3M, that is what we see. A fundamental shift in the price action began in 2018, ending 3M's multi-decade bull market. This agrees with a general shift in tone that I see on many world indices that began in 2018.

And it was at this point that it began to form it's falling broadening pattern. As with many other stocks, this will of course deteriorate significantly, however, this ends with a terrific moonshot to the upside. That of course will not be happening any time too soon, as presently, the bearish convergence on the RSI indicates to us that we have more downside to come first.

But, perhaps it is in our eventual future that manufacturing in the United States will make some recovery, and perhaps this stock will reflect that when it is time.

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