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Testing The Middle Band

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Yesterday’s bearish historical stats delivered hard and broke the bull flag setups that I posted in the morning. SPX is now testing the 4000 area and, if that breaks, the next target will likely be a retest of the retracement low at 3810.32.

I still like all the bull flags from the high here, but if SPX reaches the retracement low and continues down hard, there is an obvious target for that move. The H&S I have drawn on SPX from the high isn’t high quality, but it isn’t bad, and has a very obvious target in the 3400 area, which is a significant area because that would be a backtest of the pre-2000 crash all time high. In my view that would be the obvious target on a  break below 3600.

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Marking Time

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In my last post a week ago I was talking about the prospects on SPX for testing the weekly middle band, currently at 4312, on this rally, with particular reference to the very historically bullish two first days of June, which were the last two days. Unfortunately for the bulls, these were both wasted in a sideways consolidation, so reaching that target now looks more doubtful, and the odds of a break down before that target is reached have increased.

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Holiday Rally Setup

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SPX closed below the main SPX support/resistance trendline at the end of last week. This trendline has broken twice since 2009, and both times SPX followed through hard. In 2011 SPX broke very hard through it and never broke back over it until until 2020. In 2020 SPX broke over it, then closed the next week back below, and then didn’t close back below it again until last week. This is too limited a sample to extrapolate much from but there is precedent for failing to confirm the break the following week and then following through the break and so the likely weekly close back above today has precedent from 2020 and is not an obviously bullish development.

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SPX Breaks Main Support Trendline

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I was disappointed to see SPX close well below the main support and resistance trendline on Friday (Editor’s Note: Why? Why on Earth?) . This has only happened twice since the start of 2009, and on both occasions SPX followed through the break with force. Two instances is somewhat less than a statistically significant sample, but further downside is now undoubtedly open, even if the bull flag setups on many indices, sector ETFs and stocks are still intact.

SPX weekly chart:

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