My last few posts have been a coronavirus COVID-19 series, so I'm putting in the links here so as to refer back to them easily for now. These are the eleven posts so far. I'm planning to finish this series with a post on the likely economic impact of COVID-19 over the coming year, and...
read moreTag: NDX
Another Week, Another Inflection Point
Apologies for the lack of a post last week. Some of you know my wife has some health issues at the moment and they have me distracted. I'm doing this post tonight because SPX is at a key inflection point and because the way this breaks may deliver the direction for the rest of January....
read moreTag: NDX
The First Five Trading Days Of January
The holidays are ending and volume should be coming back into markets next week as players return. New Year's Day on Wednesday is obviously a holiday as well, and the five trading days after that will be closely watched to deliver an indication of how the rest of 2020 might go. I'll be looking at...
read moreTag: NDX
Coming Soon – Mean Reversion
I've been talking in my last few posts about expecting a significant high at the end of November, to be followed by a downward cycle into April 2020, and here we are at the end of November, so how's that looking here? Well as it happens a rare and significant event happened at the close...
read moreTag: NDX
Upside Targets
As I was saying in my last post, SPX should be back into an upwards cycle by the end of October and that would be likely to end by the end of November. SPX has duly now made new all time highs and is likely to go higher. Let's have a look at the most...
read moreTag: NDX
Choices, Choices
One way of looking at markets is as a succession of inflection points or probability forks, at which there are generally a higher and lower probability option which, once taken, take the markets to the next in that series, either eliminating or significantly changing the paths not taken at that inflection point. We've been looking...
read moreTag: NDX
Backtest Or Retest?
The first move down on equities has delivered nicely, and at this point the time has come for the rally that is in progress at the moment. Now on the bigger picture this is an inflection point test of trend resistance, and the alternate inflection point outcomes are either a failure at resistance into another...
read moreTag: NDX
So Here We Are Then
Last Friday, I was saying that my preferred scenario on SPX would deliver a marginal new rally high to make the second high of a double top to then take SPX back into the 2600-50 area. We have seen that marginal higher high, the middle of this cycle high window is today, and the stats...
read moreTag: NDX
Back On The Three Day Rule
I was looking at the likely reversal back up on Friday morning and obviously we have seen that. ES/SPX have since broken back strongly over the multiple resistance levels in the 2660-70 area, weekly and monthly pivots, daily middle band 5dma and 50 hour MA. So now what? Well in the short term a retracement...
read moreTag: NDX
Retest Interruptus
I was making the argument before the open this morning that equity indices were so close to obvious resistance on NQ, RTY, DAX and ESTX50, that ES might well deliver a lower high this morning and fail hard there. So far that has delivered though this morning's high might need a retest. Premarket Video from theartofchart.net -...
read more