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The Bear Flags Look Ready

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At the start of last week I wrote a post looking at the case for a rally on US equity indices in the 12 trading day window into April 2nd, the planned day for US tariffs to be extended to most US trade partners. That rally delivered but hasn’t been quite as strong as I hoped, and I wrote another post on Monday in which I was looking at the bear flags forming on the US indices and talking about those moves topping out yesterday or today.

So here we are, the bear flags are all formed and today is the day I was expecting these to top out if that didn’t happen yesterday. We’ll see if that happens and if it does, then I have sketched out a possible ideal path that this reversal may take.

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Halfway Through The Rally Window

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A week ago I wrote a post looking at the case for a rally on US equity indices in the 12 trading day window into April 2nd, the planned day for US tariffs to be extended to most US trade partners. That rally has delivered so far but hasn’t been as strong as I hoped, and I want to look today at the rally patterns that have been forming, and what I’m expecting to see over the rest of the rally window.

In my The Bigger Picture video yesterday I was looking at these rally patterns and saying that the initial bottoming pattern target might not all be reached as US indices appeared to be forming bear flags. I was saying that the next obvious move would be another leg up into new rally highs across the board, but that the rally might fail soon after, possibly on Tuesday or Wednesday this week.

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Rally Failing So Far On Crypto

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In my last post on Tuesday I was looking at the very promising rally setup on Crypto and was looking at the important daily middle band resistance that needed to be broken and converted to open the upside. So far, that has not been going well and while the rally setup hasn’t failed yet, it may well be failing.

On the Bitcoin (BTCUSD) chart, there was a clear break back above the daily middle band on Wednesday, then a clear rejection back below yesterday. That was not promising, as more often than not this delivers a low retest.

BTCUSD daily chart:

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