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Treacherous Tuesday (by BBFinance)
As I mentioned in the morning, it was the third push up from the triangle and the pushes are now complete. Before today, the last seven trading days was a churn. The market was going round in circle and was making it difficult to find any direction. With today’s price action the direction of the market is becoming much clear. I will have to wait for tomorrow to decide whether I will close my short position on January 12 or 20. But either way I expect the market to go down from here. But may be one last attempt to retest today’s high will be made tomorrow.
It was just 11 point gain in SPX for the day. And I think the market will soon give back those 11 points and some more. The interesting thing to notice is how the sentiment changes. Before the year end, when I was talking about Santa Rally, there was general skepticism around. Not many believe that SPX will come close to 1300. And yet today, there is talk of SPX crossing 1400!
Important Timing Update (by eMiniSchool.com)
Precious Metals Correction?
That was a decent move down yesterday, but it wasn't that encouraging for more downside. Marginal new lows on strong positive RSI divergence are generally a reversal signal and we're seeing a strong bounce so far overnight. I'm seeing a possible falling wedge on the ES 60min chart and I have declining resistance in the 1243.5 – 44 area. A reversal there would confirm the wedge, which indicates back to the recent ES high:
