I took some time yesterday night to consider the overall bull market pattern setup here from the 2011 low. There is something that has been concerning me seriously on my weekly charts, and that is that I still have no pattern from the 1343 low, and the last low of course was very clearly on a trendline from the 1560 low. Why is that important? Well I’m going to do a post explaining my thinking here in detail at the weekend but suffice it to say for now that my wedge target at 1965 is a wedge target regardless of degree, but the reason I have been expecting the target to be reached is because my assumption has been that the rising wedge from the 2011 low from which that target is taken is a primary bull market pattern. If that was the case, then the following primary bull market pattern should start from 1343, and I can only see a secondary (one degree below) pattern starting there. If that pattern is a secondary pattern, then most likely the rising wedge from the 2011 low was also a secondary pattern. (more…)
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Double Tops Forming
I’ve mostly been looking at charts with double-tops forming this morning. First I’ll show the possible major double-top that may be forming on the SPX daily chart. That would trigger a target in the 1625 area on a sustained break below 1737, but in practical terms a break below strong rising support from the 1560 low, now in the 1750 area, would look extremely bearish. This is not my primary scenario here, but I’ll be considering it seriously if we should see SPX break under strong support in the 1800 area. Short term the best reversal signals on the SPX daily chart are from divergences on the RSI 5, and we have a bearish negative RSI 5 divergence forming there now. SPX daily chart: (more…)
Ten Green Candles
ES closed green again yesterday, delivering a second run of ten consecutive green candle closes since 2000. Looking at the overnight action I doubt that we will see a third record-equalling eleventh green candle today. At the moment ES is trying to hold 1830 and we might still see a test of the 1851 SPX high if it can hold. If 1830 breaks then the double-top target is in the 1822.50 area. ES 60min chart: (more…)
Friend and Nabor
I really meant to post this before the close (honest! honest injun!) but I didn’t. Anyway, this is one of those rare times I feel so bullish about a stock that I’m not only selling naked puts on it, I’m also buying calls. With earnings out after the close, and the stock bumping up 3% right now in reaction, it looks like this is going to pan out (considering the quantity of naked February $18 puts I’ve got, I certainly would hope so). Anyway, NBR looks like a squeaky-clean breakout above its triangle pattern.
