It’s been a long time since I’ve mentioned any “long” idea at all, so – – time to break the drought:

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It’s been a long time since I’ve mentioned any “long” idea at all, so – – time to break the drought:

Just a short post on SPX only today as I have work being done on my internet setup this morning.
For the second week the weekly candlestick on SPX was a long legged doji. These are indecision candlesticks, but don’t give any clues to direction as the breakout direction is random. If we see a break up then the weekly upper band is currently at 1903.6, close to a retest of the current high, and on a break down the middle band is currently at 1845, slightly under rising support from the 1737 low. SPX weekly chart:
The following Year-to-date percentage gained/lost graph of the Major Indices shows that the Small Cap Index (Russell 2000) has dropped by 5.22% since January 1st of this year…a significant variance from the others.