S&P
Post-open review… Kicking and screaming.
No-bias, but not enthusiastically.
Recovering 1980.50 through the opening 15 minutes, or not, would have told us the 1979.50 bias-down signal didn”t intend to trigger at 10:15. Not recovering 1980.50 would have made bias-down likelier to trigger.
2980.50 was still being overlapped at 9:45, so no preliminary signal. All it foreshadowed was the 1979.50 bias-down signal”s murkiness, being overlapped within 3 minutes of the 10:15 bias timing window. That invoked the grace period through 10:30.
At 10:30, the 1979.50 bias-down signal was recovered and did not trigger. This is a late no-bias environment. An offsetting test of the 1990.00 bias-up signal is in-play.
CAVEAT: Being a “late” no-bias environment, its normal objective is not a requirement. Fulfilling it at all could meanwhile be a struggle. And 1979.50 is still a relevant dividing line, so back under it could trigger another dip.
It”s not exactly the optimal bias environment. It also doesn”t reject the traction gained by yesterday afternoon”s sellers. So, drifting flat-to-lower this morning would remain abnormally vulnerable to extending down sharply this afternoon.
The overnight pullback to 1967.25
The overnight pullback to 1967.25 had bounced temporarily to 1977 before failing. Its next bounce has attacked the 1979.50 bias-down signal to within 1 tick. Recovering 1980.50 would make the bias-down signal”s recovery likely, perhaps being today”s only chance at rallying. It”s otherwise likelier to trigger at 10:15. resuming the overnight decline.And we shouldn”t be surprised — at least be prepared — if that were to develop quickly enough and scarily enough to resume yesterday afternoon”s plunge, too… Details and other markets coverage were discussed during the pre-market Tour recorded here:
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The First Trade… Yesterday’s traction seems intent.
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Through the prior close…
Wednesday night”s rally into Thursday”s gap up had extended to the first of my corrective bounce limits at 1986.00, up 48 points on the day. That was met by a 42-point plunge to fresh post-open lows at 1944.00. Sellers gained traction for the effort, and then hibernated on their laurels as the balance of the session retraced that plunge. Entirely. A 96-point round trip in the span of two hours.
Overnight action”s new info…
Initially extending yesterday afternoon”s recovery of 1986.00 to fresh highs at 1992.75 proved short-lived. The balance of the night has been retracing the recovery, back down to 1967.50. A 10-point bounce there was retraced entirely, producing a 7-point bounce to 1974.50.
If, then…
Afternoon traction isn”t signaled as often as it has been this week. Also different for the setup is how the market has been rewarding it, by only preventing the opposition from extending, and not by extending the traction. Of course, extending the traction is difficult in the face of such abnormally wide overnight reactions hasn”t been done all week. Is it surprising that a normal resolution may be a creature of normal market environments? Regardless, the consistent feature to this indicator is the context it provides. And if the open doesn”t immediately invalidate the prior afternoon”s traction, then that traction will still determine direction for the next morning and/or afternoon.
So, will yesterday afternoon”s sellers be rewarded by trending under their 1944.00 low today? When the overnight high has been almost 1993.00 and the open is indicated around 1970.00, perhaps we should focus on whether the morning will be attracted next to 1944.00 or to 1993.00, before bothering with what happens after it gets there. As for that potential to trend under yesterday”s lows, I wouldn”t waste my attention on this just yet. But it”s still fun to keep that notion not too far in the backs of our minds to pull out later — especially if the fast-approaching weekend illiquidity is met by retracing even more of yesterday afternoon”s rally.
First Trade…
Exiting the open at 9:45 above 1980.50 would be unlikely to trigger the 1979.50 bias-down signal at 10:15, which WOULD be likely to trigger if the open were exited under 1970.50 at 10:15. And exiting the open under 1964.50 would be likely also to renew the bias-down signal by not recovering its 1969.50 bias-down target at 10:15. Exiting the open above 1986.00 should at least test the 1990.00 bias-up signal.
Morning bias
| FRI morning signal (triggered at 10:15 ET) | SPX | ES |
| Bias-up: above | 1993.25 | 1990.00 |
| …would target | 2004.25 | 2001.00 |
| Bias-down: under | 1982.75 | 1979.50 |
| …would target | 1972.75 | 1969.50 |
| Signal status: LATE NO-BIAS, TESTED BIAS-DOWN SIGNAL | FAQ | |
| INTRO VIDEOS #1 and #2 | ||
1. At 10:15, 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 10:15 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 10:15 would invoke a grace period through 10:30 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 10:30 after invoking the grace period would trigger “noN-bias,” with no bias influence.
An 42-point plunge during Thursday”s
An 42-point plunge during Thursday”s last 60-90 minutes underscored the relevance of 2086 being a potential corrective rally limit. Its 42-point recovery before the close suggests the corrective rally may have further to go before resuming the decline. The late recovery was otherwise just noise, not accomplishing anything new before coming to within 3 minutes of the cash session close.
Thursday afternoon”s sellers gained traction for their efforts. So, they”ll be rewarded with control of Friday morning”s bias environment unless the open were to maintain its recovery above Thursday”s 2086 high. Higher corrective rally targets at 2096 and 2000 could be met overnight to neutralize their attraction and allow a downleg to get underway.
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