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The First Trade & Pre-open Tour Recording… Buyers only blipped.
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Through the prior close…
Wednesday’s gap up to 2469.50 was at or above the two prior sessions’ highs. It was maintained through the open, but not extended until triggering late bias-up. Extending higher into the noon hour peaked upon touching the morning’s 2474.00 bias-up target, which also satisfied an intraday test of 2471.00-2473.50. All of which tracked perfectly against the session’s topping template, including a reaction back down into the prior two sessions’ range at 2462.50. Headlines prevented the reaction from playing out naturally, which probably prevented the last 60-90 minutes from extending down to fresh lows. WedEX triggered passively bearish.
Overnight action’s new info…
Yesterday afternoon’s 2462.50 low was retested soon after the Globex open. It held as the lower-end of a flat-to-higher range. Europe’s opens triggered a blip-up to 2468.50, which disappeared almost as quickly as it had appeared. More so, it retraced several ticks deeper than its origin, attacking the overnight and yesterday’s 2462.50 low.. then rejecting a 2-point blip up by spiking back down sharply to fresh lows at 2461.00.
If, then…
Yesterday afternoon’s last downleg developed exclusively during the 10-15 minutes when the bias environment lapse comes within view. The actual 2:30 lapse didn’t extend the effort that was already underway. This is a bullish setup, essentially a stretched rubber band that snaps back. Which it did, but only to retrace a minimum 61.8% of the stretch. A more impressive snap is likely if sellers don’t control overnight action. So, are they? So far. Even the blip-up at Europe’s opens has bearish characteristics. The best evidence would be in testing the bias-down signal, and then triggering it, or not.
First Trade…
[Click here to view the Bias parameters] Exiting the open at 9:45 under 2467.50 would be unlikely to trigger the 2471.00 bias-up signal at 10:15. Exiting the open above 2466.00 would be unlikely to trigger the 2461.50 bias-down signal.
Phonetic dictation…
good morning and welcome it’s Thursday it’s time for Thursday’s Morning Market or the critical question this morning is who owns the night and not decisive but it’s not buyers sellers haven’t produced a fresh low but they did take price back down here’s yesterday’s clothes here’s yesterday’s aloe and the overnight low that tested it read tested it remember this is typically a bullish setup bullish meaning that the selling pressure Lancer the back to hear developed not prematurely but it definitely had potential to be to extend it could only have attracted sponsorship which it didn’t did not had not at the right time at 2:30 so it turned out to be not necessarily week and it just fully extended now that did produce a reaction up at 2:30 as of 2:30 no fresh aloe the reaction up measured 61.8% retrace 61.8% of the drop so just a healthy constructive corrective bounce not quite the rubber band snap that it could be but it was the bare minimum if it’s going to be anything more it’s going to be obvious that it’s going to be more at the open and that didn’t get anywhere that premise didn’t improve it all last night tried to here’s your UPS opens Market Edmond ranging flat tire off the over of the overnight lows retest yesterday’s love the market had been ranging flat tire and then flipped up on Europe’s reactions Europe’s opens but only temporarily and have disappeared almost as quickly as it had appeared and more so because the origin has been retraced and that’s not letting go so again it’s not decisive who owned the night but it wasn’t buyers and it adds to the bearishness potential bearishness get for the open resumed yesterday’s USA afternoons to climb it adds to the bearishness having bounced to retest yesterday afternoon’s high without probing above it maintaining the probe above it also adding to this morning if there is any so biosignal but it’ll be a helpful indication as to whether sellers are we gaining controller or retaining control from yesterday afternoon’s reaction down and explaining that even deeper holding 2463 especially if 6150 had been touched already holding 2463 is probably going to be an indication that sellers art at least not this morning we’re gaining or asserting their control so the consequence if sellers do take control through the morning the consequence is to launch a new down like at least a retest Friday’s the Gap back to Friday’s close the overnight lows do constitute enough of a new trend extreme because there was a trend reversal signal can play so the overnight lows do constitute enough of a trend extreme Globex Trend extreme that that’s an attraction to and then of course there’s unfinished business below at 2425 this Gap or at least likely attraction to be probed by about four points and a 24-21 so 2421 up to 24 25 and albums it seems more tied to the gyro although it’s not producing fresh Lowe’s in fact producing a relative high or higher and higher low relative to the euro which is probing lowers we just saw in the extended actually much higher overnight basically 7960 that’s not a break out clothes and it’s from an island and so we expect the balance to fail 7960 7965 pretty critical area and pretty good candidate for a balance to fail it tested what would be the trigger that would tell us that the bounce it likely failed it is probably not going to be it’s really not going to be a good trigger intraday probably not going 1995 to the close is just refueling sellers for the bigger dip update the text of the first Tradepost real quickly and then send out this video but essentially she looks like sellers are decisively in control over night I’d like to see a bounce back up into the range a little bit back up to 63 don’t get too carried away otherwise this is going to create a gap down within the range that is difficult to extend out or at least reliable so what it right now to 6461 even gapping Down Under The Lord of the Rings you know if we don’t get down under 59 lot of support 59 this is not as yet.
The First Trade & Pre-open Tour Recording… Already volatile.
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Through the prior close…
Tuesday’s choppy sideways range had come within 1 point of the critical 2459.00 trend change signal. That was while trying to fulfill its test, which became required by the morning’s bias parameters (it became “unfinished business below”). Tuesday’s 2468.50 opening high was attacked to within 1 point by a late surge. That was while trying to fulfill its test, which was barely triggered by the afternoon bias exit. All of which developed under the overnight rally’s test of its 2471.00-2473.50 objective.
Overnight action’s new info…
Tuesday’s late surge was immediately retraced 6 points back down to 2461.50. Already recovering into Europe’s opens, extending higher has probed 2468.50 up to 2471.25. Its reaction down is testing 2468.50 as support.
If, then…
Testing the rally’s 2471.00-2473.50 objective overnight before Tuesday’s session didn’t prevent retesting it intraday. That test would likely hold. Retesting it overnight is likely to probe higher — until the open, when its retest would be likely to hold. So, extending the current retest of 2471.00-2473.50 all but requires it to be underway pre-open. None of which would ensure maintaining the higher probe, or protecting against reversing back down sharply, if not already reversing down pre-open like yesterday — the overnight rally is being attributed to an ECB “trial balloon,” which isn’t exactly a stable base. Regardless, the morning will be motivated to seek some sort of equilibrium level ahead of the afternoon’s FOMC Minutes release.
First Trade…
[Click here to view the Bias parameters] Exiting the open at 9:45 above 2471.00 would be likely to trigger the 2468.50 bias-up signal at 10:15. Exiting the open under 2465.50 would be unlikely to trigger bias-up.
Phonetic dictation…
good morning and welcome it is Wednesday it’s time for Wednesday’s Morning Market or look at the one minute chart looks like a nice little rally going it’s not small it is 9 points more than under 62 actually 6150 the overnight low to 7125 actually back into yesterday’s pre-open I look over here on the left there’s a 9 Minute chart you can see the overnight rally Monday night’s rally that or Sunday night’s rally in the Monday’s range Monday night’s rally into the overnight High satisfying the 7173 diphtheria to within a tick not retested intra dated and have to be still doesn’t have to be if it’s retested in the same timing windows retested it’s an overnight test if it’s retested overnight it will likely be rude test or be exceeded intraday here’s where that comes out in the bigger picture there’s last Tuesday’s key reversal or pivot reversal started the day with a gap down rally do a fresh Trend extreme and end of the day under the gap down as always the setup gives us almost always gives us a great timing on an immediate move under way of substance and that’s what is tracing and Celine likely enough to keep an eye on and that is and will be all over it and discussion on the in the chartroom give the open is greeted anywhere really back under present levels back under 6850 back under 66 creamy open any lower or probably already finished or tracing the or correcting that is last week’s drop and resuming the decline not resuming the decline otherwise again or to greet the open already above the 7173 50 Area probably 77 280 if there’s another leg pre-open up to 7780 it probably extends 290 otherwise the other likely scenario is that post Oakland isn’t greeted already into the open isn’t it already in Decline but also the pre open doesn’t yet retest last night’s high are the prior night time does and again please let me know if I former actually no yes I did test interesting level of support calculable support from the previous rally scheme it came close to my objective of 78 but not quite retested opportunity to old and form of better bottom gold didn’t get it needed to indicate that selling was satisfied that is 1271 before bouncing and the bouncing get high enough as it needed to indicate that momentum in Reverse. That’s 1285 overnight there’s more weakness or maybe another shot at it you know this is a 6180 retracement it’s a little deeper than that so I’m not really Holding Out for this pattern but having retraced sixty-one 8% of yesterday’s bounce or recovery attempt I’d still give 1285 s recovery a benefit of the doubt it 1285 is recovered to the clothes we will look at that as a bottom as momentum reversing up but there’s only there’s not even one bite of that Apple it’s not happening words extending down silver someone similarly did not did not recover enough it was testing 1670 after test early testing 1660 they came right into my pattern but it did not close above 1670 so it hasn’t extended but still an opportunity close by Beyonce song I will give it everything for the DAP the momentum Traverse tub same thing with the long blonde needed to close above 154 2220 went out testing it held its test actually at least held 154 3154 10 through the clothes is basically coincides of the 4825 and that could circumvent the cell signal I really see that business is really coiling it looks like coiling I know but it’s not this is too organized so I don’t expect for you 25 and 40 even touched to hold and to resume the decline AP reported yesterday after you say reports today it’s not being greeted from the position of strength and then natural gas weaker overnight remember if it wasn’t exploited yesterday one would be likely to it we can get into the.
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Through the prior close…
Monday’s open was just 1 point under Sunday night’s 2455.50 high. The overnight rally resumed immediately, up to the morning’s 2466.50 high. Narrow ranging was supported by the recovery’s 2463.00 likeliest objective. Closing above it would have put into play the next higher objective at 2471.00-2473.50 — which it was, but not decisively. However, 2459.00 was recovered, which jeopardizes Thursday’s trend change signal.
Overnight action’s new info…
Not being triggered decisively didn’t prevent the 2471.00-2473.50 target from being met, but it might ensure its resistance holds. A surge began simultaneously with Asia’s opens. It extended without hesitation up to 2473.25. The trend didn’t delay reversing back down, into and out of Europe’s opens, piercing yesterday’s highs down to 24165.00. A reaction has bounced up to 2470.00, retracing 61.8% of the reversal down.
If, then…
Thursday’s trend change signal would be saved either by Tuesday’s open breaking back under 2459.00, or by closing under Tuesday under Monday’s 2454.00 low. Overnight action suggests that the open is safe, unless the reversal down were to resume soon. Retesting the overnight high would still encounter the same resistance, with no greater likelihood of exceeding it. Even if sellers aren’t controlling the open, just exiting the morning bias environment in negative territory would keep alive the downside potential.
First Trade…
[Click here to view the Bias parameters] Exiting the open at 9:45 above 2469.25 would be likely to trigger the 2467.25 bias-up signal at 10:15. Exiting the open under 2466.25 would be unlikely to trigger bias-up.
Phonetic dictation…
good morning welcome it is Tuesday at Stanford Tuesday’s morning market tour interesting the next tire objective after 63 which was actually supportive yesterday if you can see on the three minute chart supportive and then pierced very late in the day momentarily before returning to the ranges upper end and closing above sixty three overlapping it’s on a consolidation utilizing it to not decisively recovering and not to the point where we could reliably expect the next hour objective de me mad at 7173 50 but still being recovered at least led to with ages opens a test of 7173 actually 7350 which was test to do with in three Tix at the 24 also tested was the bias of Target and have the same outcome involved in that means today is and add pound had an opportunity pretty good opportunity here to hold the same 1:30 support but this Gap outstanding that wants to be filled really taking its time explaining that yesterday’s inside session didn’t indicate necessarily that the pattern was breaking lower that’s ineffectual pessimism that as I described yesterday it really stopped short of being optimal ineffectual pessimism because there was no actual test of a prior load Gap Town and spent the entire session negative territory that was but it didn’t Trend down so ineffectual pessimism could have been a little more so if one other feature that is probing April oh and then recovering were present but it wasn’t so the dollar is been rallying overnight pretty much on again less North Korea or less bearish Outlook from North Korea testing support it doesn’t help the Bears case for the purpose of the top but it does require if there is no topping here for there to be almost immediate recovery open this morning a new one got to get back out above 1285 and above 1290 so absent an immediate pretty much immediate recovery above 1290 the risk is that this test of 12 8150 the support weird that might happen once again 1305 leaving a gap so the burden of proof is on overnight they’re not testing support how much.
The First Trade & Pre-open Tour Recording… Optimism returns.
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Through the prior close…
Friday’s open arrived after Thursday night’s lows had touched the morning’s 2430.75 bias-down target. The open was greeted 8 points higher, and the morning eventually extended another 8 points more to touch 2446.50. Two interim pullbacks 2436.00 low, the last one firming to close at 2440.00. Thursday’s trend change signal was confirmed, but not its breakout setup.
Overnight action’s new info…
Gapping up and spiking higher at Sunday night’s open immediately found resistance at this morning’s 2445.00 bias-up signal. It soon broke higher to attack the 2450.25 bias-up signal, where more resistance was immediately found. Hovering there formed an Ascending Triangle until Europe’s opens triggered a breakout. Its surge to 2455.50 has been consolidating.
If, then…
Proximity to the month-old gap at 2425.25 isn’t helping to neutralize it. As we discussed during this weekend’s Saturday Review, that was the most bullish scenario. It still is, if the decline were to resume at this morning’s open, without having extended much higher before then, if any. That’s often how overnight, relentless, one-way trending does resume. Otherwise, extending last night’s bounce would track one of the two bearish templates we discussed — launching the next downleg from either 2463.50 or 2471.00-2473.50..
First Trade…
[Click here to view the Bias parameters] Exiting the open at 9:45 above 2452.25 would be likely also to exceed the 2450.25 bias-up target at 10:15 to renew the bias-up signal. Exceeding 2447.75 would be likely at least to trigger the 2445.00 bias-up signal.
Phonetic dictation…
good morning and welcome it is Monday it’s time for Monday’s morning market tour just to refresh a little if you weren’t in attendance Saturday I hope you did have a chance to review the Saturday review where we discussed a couple of important things when is a lot of the stuff that led to last week’s decline entered the week was entered that is still fluctuating around that 2472 plus or minus 24/7 X tried getting away from it failed to get away from it 24/7 exhaled for a couple days anyway and then two more days were spent in the climb there’s a trend change in there that wasn’t rejected on Friday so it’s confirmed which says there’s an eventual third lower clothes coming at least an eventual third lower close there’s also a break out Thursday from a different pattern that wasn’t confirmed because there was not a second consecutive lower close two different set-ups two different confirmations now obviously it doesn’t matter if the if there’s a third lower close by one there’s a third lower closed. That least a third load of clothes that’s outstanding so long as the trend change signal isn’t rejected by recovering back above its trigger which is essentially 2459 the interim low 2459 can be tested the through the clothes needs to hold it can be tested up to hire pair of those right here 2463 24 there’s a gap back to 71 cash session 7350 futures so room for probing and intraday but just needs to hold through a clothes and by the way need to hold two two consecutive closes in other words above the level that triggered the trend change which wasn’t rejected on a second consecutive session another day to recover specific reaction characteristics and ascending triangle form there and then at Europe’s opens broke out that’s through the bias of Target now extending even higher to 2455 50 15 50 happens to be the renewed by would be the renewed bicep Target of the bias up Target 5025 is exceeded through 10:15 three hours from now that would put into play the renewed bias of Target had 5550 that’s probably not going to be very relevant to us later but it’s important to note now that patterns do identify that level has resistance so it’s a single-minded or or Relentless One Way overnight trend two things about that one way Relentless overnight Trends often not always often enough to be aware of them though often are reversed at the cash session open if this one is reversed before extending much higher before it gets that bigger correction out of the way then it could extend down and could resume the decline it can take care of that Gap and still be in the process of this leg not having fulfilled or I’m shy refueled Sellers and get that bottom out of the way that’s still possible it requires pretty much resuming the decline at this morning’s open which is often a path that that follows a single-minded or Relentless One Way overnight rally or any trending overnight also as it happens it is often the case that greeting the new week with a with extreme sentiment often proves to be a sentiment extreme not so much counter-trend and that’s what the other night bounces is its counter-trend but it is single-minded Relentless one-way trending for the purpose of the setup I just described as much as it is Extreme sentiment that’s what makes it extreme sentiment and greeting and more so on Mondays or coming out of the weekend with that sentiment extreme or with extreme sentiment often proves to be a sentiment extreme make it to the open without reversing down if the open can hold up without reversing down without putting and save downtrending through the opening 15 minutes of volatility or holding up through the bicep Target some level some setup that keeps the upside momentum intact and we’ll look for a higher highs will look for testing 2459 up to 2463 if not 7173 will look for that KFC open can maintain its Gap up and not put in any kind of a reversal signal there’s some consequences to that down the road that won’t be consequential today but that is what will be looking for today or the other this morning North Korea right but let’s wait to see if they open and I’ll have comments before they open if something were to develop I mean there’s even a somewhat of a descending triangle forming here could be a continuation pattern that won’t help the purpose of extending her this morning that’s early unless it’s maintained through the open alright looking at other markets so the Euro I mean it’s not the highest confidence in this pattern extending a higher to get a second consecutive are closed okay but remember the issue with the euro is that it held here at lower price for an extended amount of time so little suspicious about the bounce it’s coming from in ascending triangle or inverted Head and Shoulders out of the case we can give it some benefit of the doubt that it might get out to higher highs as far as how it’s doing overnight it’s not extending it but it hasn’t rejected that the stage Looney has its own by signal at standing as well which having held 1:30 and we can look back and see that was a critical spot that we anticipated would launch a recovery on its last test it’s being tested pretty aggressively on this test aggressively meaning it’s left unfinished business above in this cap outstanding so back above 130 50 would Target fresh highs not getting it done but that’s the only set up that we have going on in the pound and honestly has created an anchor below so stop being rejected so soon this pull-back is going to extend gold and silver overnight the lower end of the range for buyers bubbling up so not bullish on crude oil and then natural gas this is not a barrage pattern to Surge Thursday morning and then just hover here throughout the balance of Thursday and through Friday now that doesn’t say that the rally extends immediately it’s trying to doesn’t mean it’s going to do so do you still view this as a bottom ever since 1 week ago having closed above all this week ago I’ve enclosed of the prior high for two consecutive sessions after overnight action head retested the low not optimal that prior Friday would have been more bearish try or try at least more pessimistic but it exploded it and gave us indication at that Tuesday close that a bottom was for me and it’s been on a tear since then until Friday or until after reacting to Thursdays eia report there’s room for a pulled back down to 9192 if that doesn’t hold then we come back to to 8182 not fun to be long that but that probably holds if that’s even done if 29192 is even broken let alone test it regardless bottoming pattern alright any questions okay good luck today.
The First Trade & Pre-open Tour Recording… More fresh lows.
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Through the prior close…
Gapping down Thursday under Wednesday afternoon’s ~2463.00 low formed a “session-long decline” setup, which was confirmed by extending down through the open. All but one timing window probed the prior timing window’s low, the exception being the afternoon bias environment. It completed a bounce from 2442.75 to 2453.75. The balance of the session melted down to 2435.75. This brought the cumulative drop from Tuesday’s 2488.50 high to 53 points. Thursday was a breakout close, awaiting confirmation from a second consecutive lower close Friday. Thursday also formed a trend reversal setup, which would be confirmed by simply not closing Friday back above 2459.50.
Overnight action’s new info…
Globex has developed exclusively in negative territory. It immediately extended Thursday’s slide from the 2436.75-2437.50 close down to 2432.75. And then it immediately bounced back up to Thursday’s close, which resisted a narrow 3-point range all the way into Europe’s opens. That triggered an immediate dip, and after its quick retracement, a deeper leg fell to fresh lows touching this morning’s 2430.75 bias-down target. It reacted back up 4 points to the initial overnight range.
If, then…
The next lower objective is 2425.25, likely to be probed by at least 4 points. Any post-open weakness Friday would likely fulfill it intraday. The overnight dip to this morning’s 2430.75 bias-down target does make its break helpful confirmation — especially through the open, but through any relevant timing window. This being a Friday, the morning’s bias can persist through the noon hour. That could carry substantial consequences today, as nothing precludes extending through the day. Avoiding this morning’s bias-down signal (let alone renewing it), or exiting the morning in rally mode, may be the only opportunities to avoid trending down sharply into the weekend, and probably also out of it.
First Trade…
[Click here to view the Bias parameters] Exiting the open at 9:45 above 2439.25 would be unlikely to trigger the 2436.25 bias-down signal at 10:15. Exiting the open under 2432.00 would be likely to trigger bias-down.
Phonetic dictation…
good morning good morning welcome it is Friday and all that that entails is Friday and we’re greeting the open of a Friday ahead of a weekend at a Friday factors when greeting the open in negative territory with a globe accession that is traded exclusively negative and maybe that scraped positive territory here a couple of times but yesterday’s drop is today’s session long to climb immediately extended down at last night’s open immediately extended really yesterday’s to climb a little bit relatively speaking a little bit three points to points and then ranged sideways quite a while quite a bit of sideways ranging overnight yesterday’s Cash session and Future’s closes 3675 3750 the fact that we served as resistance and we got to 38 so again exclusively a negative territory Europe’s opens right here one blip down retraced and then not recovering not recovering Europe’s down or reversing I should say recovering it but not turning positive as in sentiment indicator found that buyers just weren’t around found that sellers were pretty skittish and the market to a new level a new level it happens to be this morning’s biased and Target 3075 precisely touched just overlap it and then bounce would be sufficient and it was touched and then bounced back into the range momentarily nap trying to get back into that range everybody wants back into that range it’s not that wide of a range it shouldn’t be that difficult to get back to its upper end back above it right shouldn’t be that difficult what’s the holdup so more so if probing Above This overnight range into positive territory doesn’t begin until very close to the open let alone at the open so again within 30-45 minutes of the open if finally then and only then this overnight range is being probed whatever that were to produce would be temporary at least that would be our premise we’d expected to be temporary might trade it to the upside of might have measurements and suggested can put in and pretty significant balance but will surely be looking for it to Peak and forth at Peak to produce a new down leg potentially the new letters I mean let’s I don’t like to fear monger and referred to the you know the outside chances there’s always an outside chance of a crash there’s a pretty big inside chance of a crash today Friday factors Friday factors bill equidity for 2 days makes the market do interesting things and usual things that are very normal and repositioning ahead of two days of illiquidity can happen on a done so again bouncing back above the overnight range very late like an hour from now as we get much closer an hour and a half as we get much closer to the open just too late that’s fine too ship two unlikely to get a durable rally going if if there is too late of a probe of the overnight range but it does extend and maintain through the opening 15 minutes uh volatility maybe they can get it done we can ship that promise pretty quickly either way this is a Friday and Friday mornings by as tends to persist through the noon hour momentum is reversing up that can be pretty strong rally this morning this afternoon. Nothing that has anything to do with the rally momentum isn’t reversing up really that says that bias persisting through the morning through the noon hour could persist to the afternoon as well it could get ugly if it’s not rescued pretty much at the open right other markets so you’re not exploiting its narrow escape from death from breaking back in 1737 the longer that that persists without rewarding that the downside isn’t extending the more vulnerable to extending the downside that we’ve already crossed that Rubicon I think Looney interesting still probing lower lows intraday fighting them I can’t give this one any bigger benefit of the doubt other than to point out we’re still basically hovering a door under a prior low but the Buy Signal doesn’t change so I’ll just annoyed otherwise pound similar to The Looney different timing scraping Lowe’s new Lowe’s material and honestly wasn’t impressive it had Wednesdays drop had broken out and in Krogers being tested is only going to be one more bite otherwise .
