S&P 500 Index
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Capitulation Might be Close, but A Big Low Could Be Also.

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I've explained for a while my idea if 5500 isn't support for SPX then we see a capitulation period to the 5100 sort of area.

I think the case for this is picking up increasing merit. For a while I've not really been sure what to expect if that happened. My natural tendency to fade moves would make me naturally bullish but some different outcomes I considered would have that move being an important break and us only consolidating before heading lower.

With the way all of this is shaping up, I think if I see a capitulation period now I have a strong bull bias. I do think we might be setting up a much larger decline overall but a sharp drop here would usually give some sort of bull trap.

There are different ranges of bull traps. Shallow, mid and deep and spike out. Modern day markets run perpetually on hard-mode so it's reasonable to expect the most tricky one.

Big bull bias for the immediate term if we put in a capitulation swing.

I built up a position into the rally today. Which was not a lot of fun during sections of the day and harrowing for a moment late in the day but has me positioned well into the rally. I'm looking for a move down to under 5200 and close to 5100. My target would be 5150 or so at biggest with aggressive locking in near 5200.

If this move hits (especially if it hits with bad news), will be super bullish for the near term - but I would consider this an important bear break if it comes.
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This may end up being worse than I thought and these next supports may break with only nominal reactions also.

From the highs I'd expected to see strong sell offs, but this really does look worse than I'd expected.

By this point, even if we were beading lower overall, I expected to see signs of the downtrend blowing off. What we have is far more consistent with downtrends developing.

We could end up seeing a limit down day if supports fail.
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It was indeed worse than I expected. The low would have typically been made by now in the wave 5 setup.

5000 might trade now.
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Took long entries 5100.

I think this is a low.

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