We finally got that inevitable breakout from the pendant pattern that has been setting up for a month or so – resulting in a 3% downside move in US equities over the past week and leaving us sitting at ~4300 in the SPX (S&P 500 Index) and at the top of a potential support zone: […]

Last week US equities closed at ~4320 and sitting at the top of a potential support zone (4150-4300). The question was whether we would see support at this level (and a bounce) or whether we would see a continuation of the short-term downtrend that we have been in for the past couple of months. The […]

We started the week with a continuation of the recent bearish trend and a test of the 4200 support level in the SPX, but Friday’s strong bounce led to a ~0.25% higher close from last week’s close.: However we are now re-testing the 4300 level – at the top of the support/resistance zone (shaded area) […]

The week started with a continuation of the recovery bounce that we saw at the end of last week – but this was to be negated on Thursday and Friday with the earlier gains being given back and US equities closing the week only ~0.25% higher than last week’s close and moving lower: The upper […]

It was a bad week for equities with the SPX (S&P 500 Index) dropping ~2.5% on the week: We are now back in the potential support zone (shaded area) near the prior pivot low at ~4200 and close to the bottom of the 2SD boundary of the longer term bullish uptrend channel. On the pessimistic […]

It was a bad week for US equities with the SPX (S&P 500 Index) dropping over 2.5% from last week’s close: It has also now closed below the lower 2 Standard Deviation boundary of the early 2023 bullish uptrend channel (yellow line) and the 50% retracement level of that uptrend (green line) for 2 days […]

It was a very bullish week in the US Equity markets with the SPX (S&P 500 Index) closing up 5 days in a row and ~6% higher than last week’s close: We are now sitting at the top of the 1 SD boundary of the shorter-term downtrend channel and back within the 2 SD lower […]