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Mid-day Update… Hope springs again.
Noon hour prints fresh post-open highs.
WedEX’s bearish influence was essentially limited to probing a new trend low, and to the morning’s range being exclusively negative territory. But the bias environment itself was a rally that attacked the open’s 2428.25 high. Regardless, its influence is done.
Potential for being attracted back up to the opening range was fulfilled by a 10-point bounce off the 2415.75 low. The 2414.25 bias-down target became “unfinished business below.” Bouncing higher into the noon hour tested this afternoon’s 2429.00 bias-up signal by 2 ticks. But the noon hour exit had dipped to 2525.25.
This afternoon’s no-bias environment need not resolve either way today, and it will be vulnerable to resolving either way. Back above 2429.00 would have potential for retesting Friday morning’s 2439.50 high. Otherwise, probing back under Friday’s 2424.50 cash session close and resuming the decline could extend into Wednesday morning.
Look ahead: Economic Calendar – for Tue Aug 22, 2017
A midday look ahead in preparation for economic reports and events scheduled for the next trading day.
Highlights: Tuesday has the first of this week’s several housing sector reports. But it’s not very high-profile, and has no track record of influencing price action.
Redbook
8:55 AM ET
FHFA House Price Index
9:00 AM ET
Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index
10:00 AM ET
4-Week Bill Auction
1:00 PM ET
Afternoon Bias
| MON afternoon signal (triggered at 1:20 ET) | SPX | ES |
| Bias-up: above | 2430.00 | 2429.00 |
| …would target | 2435.50 | 2434.50 |
| Bias-down: under | 2421.00 | 2420.00 |
| …would target | 2415.25 | 2414.25 |
| Signal status: NO-BIAS, TESTED BIAS-UP SIGNAL | FAQ | |
| INTRO VIDEOS #1 and #2 | ||
1. At 1:20, trading above the bias-up signal or under the bias-down signal would put into play a test of its bias-up or bias-down target.
2. Not triggering either bias signal at 1:20 would be “no-bias,” and the bias signals should define the bias environment’s range.
— A test of the opposite bias signal would be targeted if one bias signal was tested before triggering no-bias.
3. Touching the bias signal within 3 minutes either way of 1:20 would invoke a grace period through 1:30 to trigger a late signal.
— “Late” signals don’t require testing the opposite bias signal, but it’s still likely.
4. Still testing the bias signal at 1:30 after invoking the grace period would trigger “noN-bias,” with no bias influence.
Post-open Review… Grudgingly lower.
Still fighting the drop.
Attacking Friday’s 2419.50 low overnight to within 1 tick was retraced to Sunday night’s 2418.25 sell signal. Stopping short of touching the low, and then retracing all of a downleg.
Perhaps that optimism can be dismissed due to US markets not yet having opened.
But even that has found buyers stepping up, despite soon being taken out. The open was greeted unchanged from Friday’s 2424.50 cash session close. The opening 15 minutes of volatility fluctuated 2 points either way around it. That was just long enough to reflect optimism without also forming an anchor.
Resolving down probed a fresh low under 2416.00. The 2421.25 bias-down signal triggered, and its 2414.25 bias-down target is in-play. None of which has prevented a 4-1/2 point bounce up to 2420.50. More of the same ineffectual optimism that has been refueling the decline?
The open’s congestion could attract price back up for a retest before resuming the decline. Exiting the bias environment back above its 2421.25 bias-down signal could retest Friday morning’s 2439.50 high. But resuming the decline would next target 2411.75 and then potentially under 2400.00.
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