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Very Important Resistance Area Here

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The possible H&S I was looking at on Friday morning didn’t form and the move to retest the prior high has done some interesting technical damage to the bear case, so I wanted to have a look at that this morning.

The SPX hourly chart below shows the break over declining resistance from the all time high, which held perfectly at the December highs and established a high quality three touch resistance trendline.

On the bigger picture there is also a decent case that a falling wedge has formed from the all time high on SPX that could be a bull flag. That flag wedge would have underthrown bullishly at the October low and this might therefore be the start of a break up towards a possible retest of the all time high.

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Candlesticks & Levels (by Xerxes)

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I’m watching a few different timeframes to get ideas from a technical perspective in SPX. I’m sure everyone in the past two weeks has been hearing about how “After a large down year, the S&P 500 returns +%”, blah blah blah. While I understand and occasionally do studies like that, I think calendar year is simply too long of a timeframe. It doesn’t capture the length or nuance of the bear markets to determine the next short-term move as we only have about 70 (?) reliable yearly candlesticks to base any analysis on, which doesn’t seem like a lot at all. I prefer to use quarterly as the longest time frame for my candlesticks.

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The 200 WMA Support

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I just finished reading a premium post over on ZeroHedge (which seems to toggle from bullish to bearish on a daily basis in recent weeks) which made a big stink about how this was a great time to buy stocks, because they have found support at the 200-week moving average. Well, it’s true, ever since the printing presses went white-hot following the financial crisis, the 200-WMA has indeed been an important bounce zone.

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