It won’t be safe to trade until the market gets through certain levels, one way or the other.
Nice little pullback yesterday. But 3540 and 3520 on the ES are both important support levels. We should see a bounce from one of those. And if not there, then major support at 3510. I wouldn’t get too excited about this pullback unless they take that …
Dare we dream? Two straight down days? Nah.
Well, doesn’t this look head and shouldery?
Two operations yesterday. Be prepared for what’s coming.
How could that be? I’m putting the finishing touches on a report that explains it, to be posted in Liquidity Trader in two parts. The first will be up early this morning, and the second a bit later this afternoon.
Meanwhile, back at the daily funhouse..
It’s an illusion. I am not out of sync. The market was out of sync. 😄
The chart pattern on the ES fuctures over the past two days is unintelligble gibberish. The November uptrend is broken, but a downtrend hasn’t been established. Instead the past two days have seen a messy, tight trending range of mini-cycles lasting less than a day. Great for trading 1 minute bars and not much more.
But here’s the thing.
It’s still bullish. Take a look and see why.
My longer term work has consistently led me to a bullish conclusion.
Stock Market Biden Time for the Bulls
My comments here pertain only to today, not to what I expect longer term.
The trading pattern in the ES fucutures since the close in NY yesterday is odd looking relative to recent weeks, and recent weeks have been odd looking. Make that recent months. The Fed has distorted the playing field.
The overnight gaps have been legendary. The legendary has become ordinary. If you’re not hedged by trading the fucutures 24 hours a day you are guaranteed an ugly surprise a couple of mornings every week when you get up and look at your screen for the first time at 6:30 AM.
And other Magic 8-Ball lies.
I had had BA short on my Technical Trader chart pick list for weeks. Over the weekend, based on the chart, I decided that it was time to cover it and so indicated for Monday. By the time Monday’s open came around it was too late. What had been a modest profit opened as a painful loss. Yes, I had had buy signals. No, there was no sign that the stock would open 15 points above the established trading range. Orderly, liquid markets don’t work that way.