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Stretched

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SPX broke up through both of the inflection points that I was looking at in my post earlier this week with the second one at the island top gap into 3337.75 yesterday. SPX here is very stretched, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t go higher, and there are no longer any significant resistance levels between here and a retest of the all time high, which I’m now leaning towards seeing before SPX makes the next serious retracement.

A serious retracement is of course a retracement strong enough to break and convert the daily middle band and then likely deliver a reversion to the mean move or more. I was asked earlier this week what I meant by that and I’m going to take a little time today to explain what I mean as it is very simple and extremely easy to incorporate into your market views if you don’t have a system to do this already.

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