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S&P 500 Index Daily, Weekly & Monthly Pivot Points

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Further to my last post, the following pivot point calculations and charts are provided to illustrate a variety of support and resistance levels for three timeframes, namely daily, weekly and monthly, for the S&P 500 Index (SPX).

For a detailed explanation of pivot points, feel free to check out John Person’s website at this link (the creator of this pivot calculator) and use his calculator for your own purposes. Just input the respective candle’s high, low and close values to the second decimal point and press “submit.”

Generally speaking, it uses the prior day’s, week’s, or month’s high, low and close to calculate the following day’s, week’s, or month’s Pivot Point (PP) and its resistance values above and its support values below. Price action above the PP is considered bullish, and below, it’s bearish.

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Fed Panics. Tim Cheers.

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Oh. My. God. This is so awesome.

I have spent the weekend beating myself up for not being totally short. I watched with chagrin as the weekend indications showed the Dow dropping 1100 points at the opening bell on Monday. And yet, God bless ’em, the Federal Reserve and its timorous chairman, Jerome Powell, have absolutely panicked. As described over on ZeroHedge, the measures they took include:

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