Is "Whipsawing" HYG Forming a Bearish Pennant Pattern Below Long-Term Resistance?

This week has had its ups and downs for corporate high yield bond ETFs.  As the daily, 1-year chart below appears to show, HYG may be forming a bearish pennant pattern below long-term resistance, which it failed to break above after three failed attempts this week.  Each attempt had slightly lower lows, forming the top of the apparent pennant.  

A pennant pattern is typically a continuation pattern; so from a probability standpoint, the next move is more likely to be down than up when this pattern breaks since the move into the pennant (the "pole" or "flag pole") was down. However, we offer no predictions since anything is possible from here.

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Last but not least, HYG also finished the week below long-term support on the weekly chart shown below.  A line which HYG has largely been above since mid-2009.

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Last week our "sell" indicators were triggered so we vacated our positions in high yield corporate bond mutual funds, which we held since the third week of December 2014.  We currently have a relatively small (experimental) short position via ticker SJB (thinly traded).

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