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It Is What It Is

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SPX closed last week back above the weekly middle bollinger band and with a strong and rare reversal hammer weekly candlestick. In my weekend post, which you can see here, I looked at the history of these rare candlesticks om SPX going back to the beginning of 1974, and didn’t find any directly comparable candles that did not then continue up to the weekly upper bollinger band, currently at 1873. I am therefore treating last week’s low as the retracement low unless we see strong evidence to the contrary, which would need to start with a decline through strong support in the 1770-4 area. SPX weekly chart: (more…)

Test for Bulls

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I have commented a couple of times that the left shoulder on the possible H&S forming on SPX took five weeks to form, and that I would expect any right shoulder to take at least two weeks to form. To that extent the very hesitant action at the current lows is not yet a bad fit with this scenario, though it may yet break down towards the next targets without making that right shoulder. If we do see a clear break down below the December low at 1667.99, then I have the next obvious target area slightly under 1700, and that could be reached quickly. SPX weekly chart: (more…)