S&P
Look ahead: Economic Calendar – for Wed Apr 19, 2017
A midday look ahead in preparation for economic reports and events scheduled for the next trading day.
Highlights: Reaction to Wednesday’s noon hour speaker might be reliable for foreshadowing the afternoon reaction to the Beige Book release.
MBA Mortgage Applications
7:00 AM ET
EIA Petroleum Status Report
10:30 AM ET
*Eric Rosengren Speaks
12:30 PM ET
*Beige Book
2:00 PM ET
Afternoon Bias
| TUE afternoon signal (triggered at 1:20 ET) | SPX | ES |
| Bias-up: above | 2340.75 | 2337.00 |
| …would target | 2346.50 | 2342.75 |
| Bias-down: under | 2335.50 | 2331.75 |
| …would target | 2329.00 | 2325.25 |
| Signal status: NO-BIAS, TESTED BIAS-DOWN 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… Recovery trying to come to a boil.
Correcting the open’s rally.
Another pre-open dip greeted the open at 2336.75. Another bounce soon began. Exceeding 2339.00 suggested more than a correction underway. Filling the gap back to yesterday’s 2345.00 close was likely.
2345.00 was attacked to within 2-3 ticks. Which, apparently, was enough to neutralize its attraction. The reaction down extended to test the 2337.75 bias-down signal as support.
No-bias had triggered already. Cleanly at 10:15. Overlapping the bias-down signal it at 10:30 doesn’t qualify for invalidating what was already triggered cleanly at 10:15. An offsetting test of the 2347.25 bias-up signal is in-play.
Back above 2341.00 would signal the next recovery leg underway. Otherwise, The bias can now be invalidated by exiting the bias environment under the 2332.50 bias-down target.
The First Trade & Pre-open Tour Recording… Not so fast.
Proper context can start the day with a solid win and make all the difference.
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Through the prior close…
The week began optimistically, and not a moment too soon. An otherwise narrow overnight range around Friday’s ~2325.00 close broke higher just two hours before Monday’s open. Gapping up to 2331.00 soon surged to the morning’s 2337.25 bias-up target. Despite the weak-handed timing of the pre-open break, eking higher from there exited the afternoon bias environment with another surge. The last thrust retested the 2345.00 origin of Friday afternoon’s decline.
Overnight action’s new info…
Almost an exact, albeit inverted, replica of Sunday night’s pattern. Ranging narrowly included a momentary pierce of fresh highs at 2347.00. Europe’s opens triggered a 10-11 point slide to 2334.50. Its reaction has bounced up to 2342.00.
If, then…
Sliding overnight has been limited, so far, to a single leg. And that single leg hasn’t yet retraced deeply enough to reject yesterday’s rally. But it’s close. Viewing yesterday’s midday “eking” as if a Running Correction — bookended by surges into and out of it — offers two resolutions. Either that was a corrective dip which now allows yesterday’s rally to resume, or else another downleg will begin soon with the objective of probing under Sunday night’s lows. Either of these should be obvious through the open, or else the morning may find itself ranging narrowly around a gap down.
First Trade…
[Click here to view the Bias parameters] Exiting the open at 9:45 under 2344.25 would be unlikely to trigger the 2347.25 bias-up signal at 10:15. Exiting the open above 2341.00 would be unlikely to trigger the 2337.75 bias-down signal. Exiting the open under 2334.50 would be likely to trigger bias-down.
Morning Bias
| TUE morning signal (triggered at 10:15 ET) | SPX | ES |
| Bias-up: above | 2350.75 | 2347.25 |
| …would target | 2355.50 | 2352.25 |
| Bias-down: under | 2341.00 | 2337.75 |
| …would target | 2336.00 | 2332.50 |
| Signal status: 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.