On Thursday morning my SPX path that has held the last four weeks hit a serious pothole with the break below shorter term rising wedge support and a break back into the high 2800s. I’ve been looking carefully at the options from here and there are clear bull and bear scenarios. Price needs to give direction but until demonstrated otherwise I’m leaning towards the bullish option that SPX has another new ATH into what well then be a high that lasts well into 2019.
RUT has been leading the market, as is often the case and is testing the 200dma, which is holding so far. On a break below the next big support is rising support from the early 2016 low. A break below that would be a major technical break. RUT daily chart:
On SPX shorter term rising wedge support was broken and SPX came close to a test of main rising channel support at the low on Friday. At the moment the original upside targets in the high 2900s are still on the table, a full test of channel support likely cuts that to 2960ish, and a break below tells us that the high may already be in. I’d note that the first serious daily and weekly sell signals on the equity indices fixed last week, so the wind is at minimum already changing. SPX 60min chart:
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07th Oct 2018