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Failing At Strong Resistance

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The main resistance for the downtrend on SPX since the all time high is twofold, and those two resistance levels are currently crossing.

The first level is the monthly middle band, which has a long track record of acting as main support in an uptrend, and main resistance in a downtrend. That is currently at 4173 and the high this week was at 4169, so that was an almost perfect test.

The second level is the trendline from the 2009 low that was resistance in 2010, then resistance for multiple tests in 2012-14, 2018 & 2020 until it was broken hard in the collapse upwards after the 2020 low. After that was broken as support last year it has held as resistance twice, and has seen a third test this week that has held perfectly so far.

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Testing The Water

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I was writing on Friday about the nice looking rally setup on SPX and NDX particularly but obviously SPX was close to first resistance at the daily middle band and I was doubtful about that being broken on Friday, and it wasn’t broken then, or indeed yesterday.

This morning though, SPX has gapped over the daily middle band, currently at 3059, and the next targets to the upside have opened up, though this rally may reached a sudden end tomorrow at FOMC when, in all probability, the Fed will fail to announce that interest rate policy will be softened over the rest of the year.

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ChatGPT Apocalypse Postponed

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I had been reading on and off for a month or so that ChatGPT had been forecasting a market crash on the Ides of March this year, and so was watching that with very mild interest yesterday to see whether this latest claimant to the Nostradamus throne might have any luck, but the day passed without a crash as expected. Predicting apocalypse is a famously tricky endeavour. Better luck next time I guess.

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No Improbability Drive

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I was saying on Wednesday that the decent looking bullish setup was still there, but in the light of the Fed Chairman’s candid comments about future policy over the last few days a significant drive higher was looking improbable. I was looking for a test of weekly pivot at 4007 and then a fail there if we were going to see the bull scenario fail. SPX made it back to 4017 and failed hard, so the bull scenario, while not quite entirely dead, is now looking increasingly unlikely.

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Rallying From Major Support

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We saw the breakdown on SPX that I was warning about on my last post, and so far SPX is finding support in the 4000 area, which is the obvious support level as there is an intersection of decent support levels here. There are hourly buy signals fixed overnight on all of the six equity index futures I track on a daily basis and, subject to FOMC today, the pressure to deliver a rally today is strong.

The only support level not yet quite tested is rising wedge support from the 2022 low, and I’m wondering whether that, currently in the 3965 area, might need a test before the rally that we should see here. If we do see a test of that trendline and it holds, then that will open wedge resistance, currently in the 4240 area, as a possible target.

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