Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Tonight's the Night (Or Not...)

With apologies to Sir Rod for the title, there is a decent chance the ES futures may form an expanding diagonal in the downward direction. The 2-hr closing-only version of the chart is below just to show the form of the wave, but most of the components are in place in about 130 candles.



To complete such a pattern, there would need to be a new daily lower low and a fifth wave that is lower than and longer than the third - tentatively shown above.

IFF the pattern can not complete downward, and moves to the upside, that would leave only a clear three-waves-down and we would have to consider as alternates some extended fourth wave patterns (like a double-flat, triangle, or even diagonal upward) in a larger daily upward move. But, right now, it is what it is. It counts like it does. So, I'd rate the odds at about 55-45% lower because one could ask the question, "why did the structure form at this time exactly the way it has?"

There is further a recognizable pattern on the Elliott Wave Oscillator (EWO) with the expanding trend lines, so let's see how it goes.

Have an excellent start to the night (day).
TraderJoe

8 comments:

  1. SPY (Cash) 1 Hr: this index has closed a down gap, as below.

    https://www.tradingview.com/x/PlDtYOpF/

    TJ

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    1. It seems first of months funds got allocated from yesterday bcz of shortened trading week.

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  2. Thanks Tj. I see a print of 7495.75 after opening just saving overlap from morning.

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  3. ES/SPY (CFD) 30-min: from the intraday wave-counting-screen, after two consecutive closes outside the upper band (odds 4 - 6%), there has been a close inside the band; resetting the number of consecutive closes.

    https://www.tradingview.com/x/ZcfB4ZGJ/

    TJ

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  4. TJ - Is this kind of nesting illegal?

    SPY Daily Bar chart. Labels as placeholders only.

    https://schrts.co/fInYNZzB

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    1. It breaks degree definitions because no matter where I put wave i down in the second down wave (except near the top), then i, down, is longer 'in time' than 1 down, the higher degree wave in the same direction. I tried several locations for i. No bueno. TJ.

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  5. What pattern? "There is further a recognizable pattern on the Elliott Wave Oscillator (EWO) with the expanding trend lines"

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