Tuesday, March 19, 2019

FED plays with Spinning Top

What will the FED do or decide tomorrow, at its meeting, and what will it announce in the press conference that follows it?

SP500 Cash Index - Daily - Fibonacci 55

As we had noted in comments section in prior days posts, yesterday was the Fibonacci 55th day since the up trend began. You can see this on the horizontal ruler for yourself, above. It seems fitting, then, that at least some sort of down movement occurred today. 

But, a spinning top is just that - one of several sorts of candles that could indicate a topping area. As a standalone candle it would not mean much, although downside follow through including a lower closing candle tomorrow might provide a better indication of a high in place.

As usual, the powers that be (the banks, the 'smart money') are leaving it to the day of FED meeting to make the determination on what happens from here. Do they do that because they know they can likely maneuver through the volatility better than the retail trader can?

In the Dow, today's candle created overlapping waves, and in the S&P500, it did not. Remember, the Dow has not made a new high since February as the S&P500 cash index has played power forward. Today, the Dow went back down to touch it's 18-day simple moving average (SMA), or it's line in the sand before price rebounded off of it.

This is a good time to start watching the slow stochastics on the daily ES, as well as overlaps on first waves. A price overlap on 2,825 would likely be of some significance.

Have a good start to the evening,
TraderJoe

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  2. Please see the Friday March 15th post. The pattern has not yet invalidated

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  3. TJ take a look at a hourly chart on AAPL, pretty nice impuls from 3/1? I quess you can se that running correction with a higher b, probably a 4? Not much else to do with it and it works with the running B on S&P500., so if the bearish abc count is correct on S&P500 I quess this impuls needs to be A or C on AAPL, and not 1.
    Thanks

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  4. 5th wave of a expanding ending diagonal

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1t1irBU8AEX9q6.jpg:large

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  5. Joe, take a look at FANG index daily since its june peak if you havent don so already. struggling at 0-2 TL.

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    1. https://imgur.com/liNANpt

      big bad bull market poster child

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  6. IBD Leaders continue to show a lack of strong direction. Imo, good sign for at least the market to flatten out or pullback within the next couple of weeks.

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  7. TJ regarding the bearish ABC count (running w-x-y =((b)), the net distance traveled between ((a)) and ((b)) is smaller than both the net distance travelled in price in the smaller degree 2 and the triangle 4!
    No matter how one counts there will be degree violations in this rally? I think we should discuss whether or not this opens up for the other bearish counts as I showed last week with ((c)) as an contracting ending diagonal or the expanded diagonal for ((c)) that several readers have shown.
    Here’s what I mean:
    https://i.imgur.com/KLemBWY.png

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    1. Maybe I’m wrong..don’t want to confuse anybody :)

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  8. The morning starts out with a lower low day, and downward overlap of cash on 2,821 the ES futures on 2826.

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  9. The start of an idea appears below. The trend lines are tentative. But the pattern - if it plays out - might lead to a whippy FED day.

    https://invst.ly/ab-tm

    TJ

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  10. S&P500 cash (not futures, as above) has a true 1.618 extension now off the high, as below, even if the lower peak is used for a second wave, or b wave.

    https://invst.ly/ac0i3

    TJ

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  11. Reminder: FED decision at top of the next hour, and press conference after words - as far as I know.

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  12. wow, the FED sees no more hikes in 2019! Maybe 1 in 2020.

    My guess, rate cuts next.

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    1. They said 1 more in 2019 and none in 2020..i think i read

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  13. New high on NDX100, maybe in 3 of an diagonal, if so wil be a very small diagonal?..

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    1. NDX might have finished 3 of diagonal already

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    2. Intraday gap down at least on my data

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  14. Diagonal is 'technically' OK, but has a lot of risk to it. If we go over the top, then just a-b-c, down, and possible diagonal (ii) of C upward.

    https://invst.ly/ac1yw

    TJ

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  15. From CNBC:

    Fed holds line on rates, says no more hikes ahead this year

    The Fed indicates that no more rate hikes will be coming this year.
    The announcement comes three months after the central bank said two hikes would be appropriate in 2019.
    The central bank also says it will complete its balance sheet roll-off program at the end of the September.
    The Fed also reduced expectations in GDP growth and inflation and a bump higher in the unemployment rate outlook.
    As expected, the benchmark funds rate is kept in a range of 2.25 percent to 2.5 percent.

    Jeff Cox | @JeffCoxCNBCcom

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  16. All this focus on diagonals, can someone explain why it's not a simple impulse from yesterdays SPX 2852 high to today's low of 2813? Looking at it through the 3 min chart, wave 3 seems to be near 1.61 extension and outside the channel drown from 0-2, wave 5 hits the bottom of that channel, the EWO oscillates as expected by 8Fold Method....

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    1. It 'can' be interpreted that way if you wish. But, the question is moot as both result in a "one down" if we don't go over the top. The main reason for the diagonal is the large numbers of overlaps in the futures.

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    2. ..that is 1 or A, down, if we don't go over the top.

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  17. NDX downward diagonal off top

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    1. Marc this is what I meassure need to bounce here otherwise kaput
      https://i.imgur.com/1RL8pZK.png

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    2. have to wait and see i guess

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    3. but would be starting third wave down right now

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    4. TJ or Marc at what % level can we aprove a failure?

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  18. i am not qualified to answer any questions on this board that require accuracy.

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  19. joe i am expecting a lot in your next post. lol. thanks

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  20. A new post has been started for the next day.

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