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The Wheels On the Bus Go Round And Round

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Apologies for the intermittent updates over the last couple of weeks. It’s been very busy and I’m hoping to get back to posting every day again next week.

So another round of new highs and I read that the Vix has fallen to a 24 year low this week. There is an emerging consensus that equity indices will never drop meaningfully again and SPX and NDX are getting close to some big round numbers in the 6000 and 2500 areas respectively that are likely to develop a magnetic pull the closer SPX and NDX get to testing them.

So is it time to write off the bears altogether? Well we’ll still likely see at least retracements when the setups are right for them and as it happens the retracement setups are looking pretty good right here, though to develop negative divergence on the daily charts we would likely see retracements and then marginal new all time highs on both before any larger move. Those marginal new all time highs, at this point, could test those big numbers at 2500 and 6000.

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