Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Expanded flat wave 2

And maybe a triangle in the works as well.



I can't find the link at the moment, but Zero Hedge mentioned that the end of the month is when the Fed sells bonds to meet their balance sheet commitments, so tomorrow should have a weak bias.  So maybe we stall out some more and finish up a triangle pattern down around 2660.

Fresh money on November 1 should finally give us the boost to get through the overhead channel resistance from the decline.  Once we're through and retest it as support, we'll keep going, because it's a C wave, an impulse.

SPX 5 min

17 comments:

christiangustafson said...

I'm definitely looking forward to the election and the New Moon (danger!).

Looking ahead, I think the New Moon in December could be interesting as well. It would setup a situation where the Fed holds rates steady at the December FOMC, rallying us into mid-January.

But we'll worry about that later.

Randall Beehomes said...

I've now urinated on the bears of yesterday. We must go higher in order to go lower

christiangustafson said...

We gapped completely out of the bearish channel. I still wonder if we will return to test it as support, if the Fed is indeed draining liquidity later today.

Anonymous said...

Great bottom call! What are the odds for new highs?

christiangustafson said...

i won't curse it

i'm focused on the New Moon and the election next week, and a reversal at SPX ~2820.

have us in 4 down of C up of 2 up. 5 of C should "extend" to that high.

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Kevin said...

Rally in A of an A-B-C seems to look good to me, thus no need to change till we see evidence otherwise, IMHO. If A ends way higher than expected, then this whole corrective dive thing was a C to end a big wave 4, and thus blow off wave 5 still to come. If A rally as we expect - good, but not spectacular - then we face a royal crash attempt once C rally dies somewhere between SP 2820 and 2860. Thus, waiting to see how big A wave is for the "tell."

christiangustafson said...

Friendly reminder to readers that if we are correcting the full range of 2940 -> 2604, that the 50% retrace of this is only 2772, and the .618 retrace is 2811.

Kevin said...

All depends on size of the A wave. If we get a BIG A wave, then maybe the 2604 low was the end of a very big wave 4. If, as expected, the A wave ends with higher prices tomorrow - maybe Monday at the latest - then the C wave will likely soon fizzle somewhere just above the 2800 level. Either way, we should have a good handle on all this by the end of next week. Both the bulls and bear should be praying for an outside A wave (the current rally off the lows,) though for different reason.

Anonymous said...

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Depriv said...

Well, I've also said previously that it's already 'any time', but right now there is at least 40% chance that the last bottom around 2600 was just the end of a fourth wave and we have one more violent top left above 3k.

Anonymous said...

Was that it?

Kevin said...

Depriv, I agree with you. However, we have to side-step the 1929 crash repeat set-up, which suggest another modest down day is followed by another 4 day rally run above SP 2800. If the markets see then start to slide again then one better be prepared to see some serious red ink.

Path said...

Back to 2600 next week

Randall Beehomes said...

I agree. 2750 never again

christiangustafson said...

2820 this week, then 2316 (by Thanksgiving)