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Testing Wedge Support

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I’ve been waiting patiently for the rising wedges on SPX and ES to confirm this week with tests of the wedge support trendlines and both have been tested and held so far this morning. It may be that these will hold today and if so, then we might well see a retest of yesterday’s highs.

If wedge support breaks then there is quite a bit to suggest a trend down day today, though nothing fixed as yet. A support break like this would often go directly into a hard spike down, there is an open SPX 60min RSI 14 sell signal that is nowhere near target, the up volume so far at 16% is very low and at a level often seen on trend down days, and the short term buy signals that fixed at the first lows this morning are showing no sign of making target so far. On trend days most or all short term counter-trend buy or sell signals tend to fail. We’ll see.

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On the Cusp. Again.

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Well, this is just getting beyond dumb. With the Dow, having gone up thousands of points in just over five weeks, and the VIX being crushed by over 50%, the world is once again awash in arrogant, devil-may-care bulls and a handful of humiliated, despondent bears. Even a vicious terrorist attack by (who else?) the religion of peace did nothing more than cause a brief, tiny dip in the ES before it roared higher. Allahu Akbar, baby.

In any event, the indexes are primely positioned for a pummelling. I offer these charts to the three or four surviving bears on the entire planet (besides myself) who might have an interest:

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