Double Bottom? 23rd Sep 2022🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
➤ There's very little insight I can provide with the current price action. VIX is stuck at elevated levels and not moving anywhere. Price is moving lower to the support levels. If you weren't already in a short trade, it isn't the best place to start. If you are looking to buy, prices could continue to move lower. 🤷♀️ Risk to reward for new trades are probably in no one's favour.
➤ So, let's instead theorise about a Bullish case at this moment in time.
● War in Ukraine is further entrenched with more troops deployed by Russia. The West will counter.
● Interest rates are going to rise further to 4% or more
● Demand destruction is everywhere. Jobs being lost, company profits falling, consumers tightening. We are looking at a hard landing.
● China is dealing with Covid lockdown fatigue and real estate woes
➤ With all these ugly headlines, S&P500 is still holding above the 17th June low. Has the market sufficiently priced in these outcomes?
➤ On the technicals: You could argue that the leg down from15th Aug is a much less aggressive move than the April down leg. It's a gentler slide in prices. VIX is reflective of this by being stuck at a comparatively lower level.
➤ Given these conditions continue to hold, price could form a classic double-bottom and a major bullish move is not far off in the distant future.
➤ My exposure is currently 0% with no positions. The maximum portfolio exposure is +/- 200% on capital, the level of highest conviction.
➤ Conclusion: Still waiting on the sidelines. Eager to get back in the action but only the right time! 💯
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It Broke Down, 22nd Sep 2022🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
➤ Equities decided break down but that's not what I'm concerned about. It's the VIX...has it literally broken down❓ 🛠 Apart from spiking to the panic level to 30 (as I define it), it did very little on a big down day.
➤ Perhaps VIX does make sense within the context of the price action. As prices have moved consistently lower, VIX has been elevating in a steady manner and just touched panic levels post FOMC announcement. If we look at the 3 big bearish candles since the 16th August peak, today's candle was the smallest. This contraction in the size of the candle is probably the only good news for the Bulls and is preventing a huge panic move (so far).
➤ We should also note that the recent price gap was essentially closed due to a price spike...I'll stop with the Gap jokes too.
➤ I stayed on the sidelines and look to do so a bit longer given VIX's unconvincing behaviour.
➤ My exposure is currently 0% with no positions. The maximum portfolio exposure is +/- 200% on capital, the level of highest conviction.
➤ Conclusion: Price is heading toward support. Will the buyer step in?
No Persons Land, 21st Sep 2022🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
➤ Prices held above the immediate lows but overall still drifting lower. It is stuck in between support and resistance zones. This is fitting behaviour given the USD Fed Interest Rate decision on Wednesday afternoon.
➤ VIX is not giving much away. Still trading below the recent peak but at elevated levels.
➤ Market makers and intra-day traders must be enjoying the erratic market movements. Prices haven't really gone anywhere these couple of days but volatility is high. I'm happy to stay on the sidelines and avoid being whipsawed.
➤ My exposure is currently 0% with no positions. The maximum portfolio exposure is +/- 200% on capital, the level of highest conviction.
➤ Conclusion: Fed decision will not only decide on the level of interest rates but also the next level prices will move: to support or resistance.
Bitcoin Price Action vs. Fed Announcements & US Dollar StrengthThis is an analysis of Bitcoin's price action before and after Fed announcements on the daily time frame and the affect the US Dollar index has had on the markets. Since Bitcoin hit its all-time high in November 2021, the growing strength of the US Dollar has put a relentless downward pressure on global markets and currencies (and Bitcoin/Dow Jones/Precious Metals were no exception).
Every time BTC dumped since the $69k high, it dumped hard. 50% from Dec-Jan and again in Apr-June. The months between then often ended where they started before the next fed announcement. Which leads us to the announcement tomorrow where the Fed is expected to raise rates 75bps (80-90%) up to 100bps (10-20%). This could cause the DXY to continue to rise and put further pressure on the markets sending them to new lows. However, I will say that Bitcoin has started to fight the inverse relationship it has had with DXY and I can see the bullish divergence forming. If this is a local top for the DXY, we should see a temporary opportunity for a relief bounce, but the key word should be temporary. As a result, I have taken a very defensive position either in USD searching for oversold conditions in which to make a short-term scalp.
Trade carefully friends!
DOW JONES The dominant short-term Channel. What it shows next.The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) is currently pulling-back as yesterday's rebound has failed so far to break the Channel's median. That is the Channel Down, the dominant pattern, that the index has been trading in since the August 16 High. As you see that middle trend-line has been holding a key role within this pattern.
The current price action resembles the accumulation mini phase of September 02 - 07, where the price was supported on a Lower Lows line that eventually pushed it above the 4H MA50 (blue trend-line) and the Channel's middle, to rise to the top of the Channel, eventually getting rejected on the 4H MA200 (orange trend-line).
With the 4H MACD on a Bullish Cross, we are expecting Dow to reach 31700 and make a new Lower High within the Channel Down within a 1 week horizon.
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Feeling the Gap, 20th Sep 2022🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
📉 GAPs are unfashionable and it tends to get closed. Well, that gap has almost closed and I'm not FEELING great!
➤ Big reversal in markets as equities bounced after once again gapping lower at open. Price is heading back to the support level (that should be re-labeled as resistance).
➤ I had strong convictions that the gap will be filled. Despite that, I quit my long positions at a loss. This was to protect capital as I saw the possibility of a binary outcome: either VIX would explode higher or collapse lower. I don't like binary outcomes despite being only 40% wrong most of the time!
➤ As a result, I'll be watching from the sidelines until after the Fed rate decision on Wednesday. I'll get over the loss by then.
➤ My exposure is currently 0% with no positions. The maximum portfolio exposure is +/- 200% on capital, the level of highest conviction.
➤ Conclusion: Looking forward to the next profitable trade opportunity and learning from another loss.
Bounce? 16th Sep 2022🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
➤ Price again held in the support zone with VIX also contracting from the short-term peak. I'm looking at this as a reply of mid-May. The difference is that VIX was in the panic zone back in May and the move down prior to the bounce was much longer in duration. Maybe I should call it a "mini-mid-May" - MMM. If I am correct I hope the resulting bounce is not mini-sized.
➤ Given the above view, I took profits on the remainder of my short US index positions and switched to a max. conviction long in S&P500, DJIA and NASDAQ. I still hold small shorts in DAX and EUSTX50 given their different price structure.
➤ My overall exposure shifted to +100%. A moderate level of conviction at a portfolio level. The maximum exposure is +/- 200%, the level of highest conviction.
➤ Conclusion: I'm looking for a bounce. Prices may hesitate prior to a bounce and may at times look like falling further. I will not hesitate to pull the pin on my position if prices do break down.
Back to Square One, 15th Sep 2022🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
➤ Same working title as yesterday. Prices are still at square one. There was hardly any bounce but prices managed to hold support. The market is not giving much away about its next move...
➤ I have closed the long positions in DAX and EUSTX50 (STOXX50) and have reversed to a small short position (-10% exposure each). This small exposure reflects a lower conviction trade. A high conviction position is a maximum +/- 40% exposure in a single index.
➤ As mentioned previously, based on my analysis, the European & US indices are at different places in the price structure. During these phases, we may experience an inherently hedged portfolio like yesterday where overall exposure was neutral and we have opposing positions. This will resolve itself as the indices play catch up and re-sync given their high correlations.
➤ My overall exposure shifted to -60%. Low conviction at a portfolio level. I still hold shorts in S&P500 and DJIA. The maximum exposure is +/- 200%, the level of highest conviction.
➤ Conclusion: I think Thursday's price action may provide a telltale sign. If price bounce or hold support again, I would be leaning towards a return to a bullish stance.
Back to Square One, 14th Sep 2022🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
➤ A momentous day in markets, momentous to do downside that is. All the up momentum was snuffed out today. Prices in S&P500 have dropped back to the support level. As I previously mentioned, there were subtle hints of a drop. The big surprise is the degree of the drop we just experienced.
➤ The only good news is that prices have hit support levels. This could lead to a rebound of some kind. Also mentioned a few updates ago, this support level has never been a firm one. Prices have sliced through easily at times. IMO, this level may just hold.
➤ I reduced my short positions in SPX500 and DJIA to take some profit. I still hold DAX and EUSTX50 long positions. This meant I ended the day with my exposure at 0% (or neutral). I am hedged to a large degree. Profits or losses will stem from the degree that US markets out/under perform European markets. The maximum exposure is +/- 200%, the level of highest conviction.
➤ Conclusion: Downward bias worked in my favour. Both my portfolio and equity price levels are back to square one. I'm eager to see what happens next.
Deceleration, 13th Sep 2022🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
➤ Equity markets leapt higher towards the 4200 resistance zone. The upward acceleration is decelerating as seen by the size of the candle/bars since the progression from the higher low. This is either because of less buyers or more incoming sellers. The VIX also increased by a small amount.
➤ These are subtle hints of change in behaviour that we should take note. Whether this has to do with profit taking or imminent important economic data, we will know after the fact.
➤ I added short positions in SPX500 and DJ30 whilst still holding DAX and EUSTX50 long positions. As a result, my exposure has switched to net-short of -40%. This is an overall low but conflicted conviction level. The shorts are high conviction, the longs low. The maximum exposure is +/- 200%, the level of highest conviction.
➤ Conclusion: I am hedged but with a downward bias. Hedged positions are rare. It points to different equity market structures in different regions. This normally resolves itself and re-sync overtime due to their high correlations.
Re-testing Time? 12th Sep 2022🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
➤ Equity markets continued to bounce and bounce hard from the support level. It is looking very orderly, VIX is dipping in concert. It is seeking to re-test the 4200 level once again.
➤ It is unclear to me if prices will take a detour prior to the re-test in terms of a short-term reversal or the Bears are happy to wait to apply pressure only at the key resistance level.
➤ I halved my DAX and EUSTX50 positions. My overall exposure is +40%. This is a low conviction level. The maximum exposure is +/- 200%, the level of highest conviction.
➤ Conclusion: Bulls in control. Re-test imminent. Will the Bears re-assert themselves and break the confidence of the Bulls?
Game Over for the 100+ Year Economic Super-CycleDJIA. Just look at it, is it not funny how correlated everything looks on a 100+ year chart?
We are the the top. Can we this time get through the historically impossible resistance?
Knowing JPow, when market drops 10-15% he will spin up the BRRRRRRR into panic overdrive and we'll blast right through the final resistance line into pure hyper-inflationary environment where %age growth does not matter anymore, up_only.
Given that USA debt will shortly be $30 Trillion, if .gov bond rates would be at ~5% then that would be $1.5 trillion in interest payments on debt alone, or about 40% of the $3.71T tax revenue in 2020. Everyone knows that anyone who pays 40% of income just on interest, is bankrupt beyond all hope.
This is why USA will keep the interest rates low, there is no other way, regardless of what inflation does, and in order to so, the Fed gotta do BRRRRRRRRRRR, the markets will pump in nominal terms while inflation eats the actual profits. Deflation is the enemy of the state, because with deflation, large debts become non-serviceable, and as you know (if you been paying attention) that all money is debt that is loaned into existence. If the human civilization was to pay back all of its debts, there would be no money left, and we would still owe the interest. We are forced to perpetually borrow ever more to pay existing debts and interest. Inflation is designed into the current system. Hyperinflation is the inevitable end game. All (fiat) money is debt-- Sounds like double-speak, but such is life in the current financial system.
After a little dip to scare JPow to print MOAR, we should eventually break the top ultimate resistance line on DJIA, and move into a new paradigm of perpetual up & only up, which will be exponential and approach the current economic systems end-game at light speed.
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For over 100 years, the most capitalistic things of them all: the mediums of exchange- money and the value of money (the interest charged on $$$$), has been "carefully" centrally managed, controlled by The Powers That Be (and competition has been forbidden).
We are entering a new era, where medium of exchange systems compete with each other in capitalistic fashion, where people are free to choose in what medium they want to transact in, maximizing their own benefit. This does not sit well with the current TPTB, because they have seemingly effortlessly been able to reap incredibly disproportionate rewards by controlling the medium of exchange in communist fashion (centrally controlled by decree). TPTB do not even care about the money itself, since TPTB can create unlimited amounts, enough to buy the whole world, at any price and any time; they care only for control. Losing control creates panic, losing comfort creates panic, losing relevance creates panic. The Powers That Be are in full panic mode to maintain the status quo and their communistic cartel monopoly. With the current TPTB financial system collapsing, watch TPTB try to appear as the grand saviors with new "better" economic system, veiled in virtue and "good" intentions, but the systems will be even more communistic and centrally controlled, the intention has always been to maximize control.
Cryptocurrencies will help to change the world by offering alternative medium of exchanges that TPTB will not be able to easily control, but Bitcoin will not be part of it. Bitcoin can not be part of the revolution in its current state of measly 7 transactions per second, $50 txn fees during high network congestion and high energy cost. Somewhere, someone will figure out a solution to an energy efficient, decentralized, scalable, anonymous, non-inflationary, instantaneous medium of exchange for the entire planet, the greatest competitor the FIAT currencies will ever see. With the greatest competitor appearing, people will start abandoning the USD and Fiat currencies. While Fiat will not be abandoned entirely, it will finally have competition, and people will have a choice to opt out of debt slavery that's been forced upon them for 100+ years of central banking & inflation. We, the people, will have a choice we have never had.
Inflation of the money supply is a hidden tax on responsible savers where capital creation is forbidden in practice (but allowed in name) for common folk, because capital is eroded through inflation, forcing people to go to the big banks (instead of lending/borrowing person to person at their own interest rates (value of money)) in order to beg the banks for a loan, keeping the big banks and the parasitical TPTB forever relevant. The new era of competition in mediums of exchange will open the door for democracy and capitalism in the ultimate sense, where behind the scenes dictators who install puppets every 4 years will no longer be able to finance wars and their covert schemes through centrally controlled money printing at the expense of the human civilization. Competing, instantaneous, world-wide, independent mediums of exchange will be the Greatest Liberation in the History of Human Civilization.
Enjoy the Dow Jones Industrial Average blow out of the final resistance zone after a small reversal.
Enjoy the Dow Jones Industrial Average eventually become increasingly meaningless as it fails its purpose to serve as a useful indicator in a hyper-inflationary world.
Enjoy the future where you no longer are a debt slave.
Enjoy the Freedom that is coming soon.
We are close to the end game.
McDonald's MCD - I'm Lovin' Selling, and You Should be tooYou don't see just how highly priced McDonald's still is unless you look at it on the Monthly:
I mean, this is the place that sells faux-food while CPI and PPI are through the roof, and it's still trading almost at its all time high. This is even more ridiculous than the positioning of Apple AAPL:
Apple AAPL - Looks Fine on the Outside, but Tastes Weird
And Tesla TSLA:
Tesla TSLA - The Canary in the Coal Mine
On top of that, this is one of the thirty companies that compose the Dow, which is the most bearish of all indexes, having already retested the pre-COVID highs, which SPX and Nasdaq have yet to do.
The bottom line for everyone's least favourite, but most convenient, fast food dumpster fire is that the June --> August price action, was, like Apple, just a gap fill.
And now, it's time to seek new lows. And those lows happen to be, conservatively, in the $245 range.
This is a fat put if you buy puts, but a "my calls expired worthless so at least I can sob about my drawdown on Reddit" scenario for Robinhood's retail fodder.
I can only encourage everyone who is still long on equities to get out this week. I truly believe that we are going to see a bounce that traps bears short but snares bulls long:
SPX / ES - Bull Whips and Bear Saws
With a looming VIX 72 (hasn't done much since COVID! It's two years! It's due! Be careful!) hanging overhead.
VIX - 9x8 = 72
What lies ahead, after the trap has been executed, will come fast, and viciously, and it will seem as if the world is ending. If you buy when it's high because you are still thinking to yourself that this is the old paradigm, you're going to lose at least one finger, and probably three.
This world is not one where you can use magic to regrow what's lost, you know?
And so what I want to say is that you should protect what you have. If you can't get short, if you can't trade puts, then get cash heavy and reduce your risk.
Ultimately, what's important in life is not money, which when you die you leave behind. It is maintaining your kindness. It is harbouring your virtue.
This isn't moral dogma, unless you make it moral dogma. The path through the storm is to do better in your life. Been neglecting family? Fix it.
Been a bad father? Fix it.
Been a bad boss? Buy the secretary flowers and tell her that she's doing a great job. Make sure you mean it. You aren't such a bad guy. Make sure you mean it. Try your best.
One day, in this lifetime, when the Chinese Communist Party falls, you'll instantly understand what I am referring to.
Don't leave yourself with regrets on that day. That day is too late. You have to figure it out and do well before that day.
It's just like poker, where you have to place your bets before the cards are face up. It doesn't count anymore after the cards are face up.
DOW JONES on the 2008 crash fractal and how it avoids it. I've made many comparisons of Dow Jones' (DJI) 2022 Bearish Price Action with past Bear Cycles but being near closing its 3rd straight red 1W (weekly) candle since the August 15 rejection on the 1W MA50 (blue trend-line), it is time to update it.
As you see, this is a comparison of Dow's 2021/2022 chart against 2007/2008. The dynamic factor is WTI Oil (black trend-line). As you see in July 2008 Oil peaked while the index had already started it's correction inside the new Bear Market. Dow's 1W MA50 rejection was followed by a sharp sell-off below the 1W MA200 (orange trend-line) where the 1W MA50 crossed below the 1W MA100 (green trend-line) to form a Bearish Cross. The time that the index reached the 1W MA200 from its Market Top was 37 weeks (259 days).
At the moment the 2022 fractal looks to be following closely the 2008 sequence. If we exclude the fundamental extreme of the peak of the Ukraine - Russia war when Oil registered its peak (March 2022), its technical normalized top was in June 2022 right when Dow rebounded just before hitting the 1W MA200. See how even the 1W RSI sequences are identical so far. What this indicates is that Oil can continue dropping as the Fed attempts to lower an out of control inflation, but still stocks can fall along with it, just like it happened from mid 2008 to early 2009.
As a result, the 1W MA50 rejection seems so far consistent with mid-phases of a Bear Cycle. Fundamentally, a big factor that is not consistent with the 2008 fractal is the strong labor market we're currently at, with the Unemployment Rate (teal trend-line) still on market lows as opposed to the 2008 fractal, which by the 1W MA50 rejection in May 2008, it was already rising aggressively. This means that technically, a weekly candle close above the 1W MA50 can be regarded as an invalidation of the Bear Cycle fractal. Also the 1W RSI printing Higher Highs can be taken as such.
What do you think will happen next? Can Dow close above the 1W MA50 or August's rejection will hit the 1W MA200 as per the 2008 fractal?
P.S. Because the chart has the added elements of WTI Oil and the Unemployment Rate plotted and pinned to scales B and Z, it is not constant and may appear distorted based on your screen's/ browser dimensions. The original looks like this below, so if yours doesn't, adjust the vertical/ horizontal axis in order to make it look like this and better understand what is illustrated:
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Selling rallies in US30USD following NFP beatUS30USD - Intraday - We look to Sell at 31991 (stop at 32442)
The medium term bias remains bearish. There is scope for mild buying at the open but gains should be limited. Previous support at 32000 now becomes resistance. Resistance could prove difficult to breakdown. Preferred trade is to sell into rallies.
Our profit targets will be 30952 and 30700
Resistance: 32000 / 34200 / 36900
Support: 30950 / 29800 / 27000
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Bearish DJIA hidden divergenceThe Dow Jones is still in a downtrend even though we had the recent bullish pullback an this is evidenced by the formation of hidden divergence. The formation of hidden divergence usually means a continuation of the established trend will continue. The red lines on the price action and on the MACD, give you the setup. My target would be 31,000 and then 28,750
The COT shows the Non-commercials are short.
DOW JONES holding the 1D MA50 in a repeat of the COVID recovery!The Dow Jones Index (DJI) hit the 1D MA50 (blue trend-line) yesterday and today shows the first signs of recovery. The drop from the August 16 High has been substantial, almost -7% but so has the rise since the June 17 low (more than +15%), so profit taking was natural, especially since the High exceeded the 1D MA200 (orange trend-line). The first Resistance on the short-term is the 1D MA100 (green trend-line) which is being tested at the moment.
On the long-term though, this pull-back to the 1D MA50 after such a strong rally, resembles the initial recovery of March - June 2020 from the COVID crash. Especially considering also that the RSI and MACD on the 1W time-frame have been printing identical patterns, with the MACD being on a Bullish Cross since July 27 as it did on May 22 2020!
From June 15 2020 to July 21 2020, the 1D MA50 held as Support four times and it catapulted Dow to the 1.15 Fibonacci extension. A repeat of that pattern sets the current medium-term target exactly on the 35000 level. Notice also that as on June 23 2020, Dow is currently close to having the 1D MA50 cross above the 1D MA100, which is a Bullish Cross formation and that would be the first time since then!
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SPX, Rate hikes and market rally !! lets share ideas.FED started rate hikes this year and so far has increased interest rate up to 2.25 %. When there was just some news about starting rate hikes market showed a sever bearish sentiment and huge decline started. Now and after 2.25 rate hike market sees 8.5 % inflation as a positive sign !!.
8.5 % is much much higher than 2 % target of FED and implies for continuation of the rate hikes. At least we know that FED will increase at minimum another 0.5 on 21th Sep . Today there were some statements by Charles Evans Chicago FED president that interest rate will be 4% at the end of next year and still market is green.
Inflation data and FED decisions are interpreted to be the market drivers since start of this year but is this true?
Numbers shown on the chart are cumulative interest rate after FED decisions. As we can see SPX today and after 2.25 interest rate is just about 2.5 % down from the day FED raised rates to 0.75 !. Strange !. Can we see higher SPX on 21th Sep ? Is it rational?
Some take this as a positive sign for the market : (( FED finally stops rate hikes next year )). OK but rate was not supposed to go higher and higher forever. It was known from the first day that FED will stop rate hikes some day.
In terms of macroeconomics, Russia -Ukraine war continues, China may invade Taiwan, Iran's nuclear deal result is unknown. Add some giants like NVDA, AMD and MU warnings to this economical climate and please let me know if you can find any positive sign.
What is actual driving force of market? It seems taking interest rates and FED actions into consideration leads to contradictory results. So, what is behind all these market moves?
What do you think about recent market rally? is it just a bear market rally or real bull run has been started from last major low?
What is your idea? Lest share our ideas and boost our knowledge.
Eager to hearing your thoughts.
DOW JONES rejection finding Support soon.Exactly 2 weeks ago on our last Dow Jones (DJI) analysis we stated that the price had entered a possible rejection zone (red) and unless it closed a weekly (1W) candle above the 1D MA200, we would get a pull-back:
Well as it turned out the index closed last week below both the 1D MA200 (red trend-line) and the 1W MA50 (blue trend-line), which are very close to each other, and got a considerable rejection this week. The price is now approaching the critical Support cluster that consists of the 1D MA100 (green trend-line) and the 1D MA50 (yellow trend-line). The chances of getting a new bounce are high as not only are wee on a 1W MACD Bullish Cross since late July but also the 1D MA50 is about to cross above the 1D MA100, forming a Bullish Cross. Last time that happened was on after the June 15 2020 1W candle, which was the first recovery from the March 2020 COVID crash:
As you see, the 1D MA50 and 1D MA100 held as Support levels and Dow was able to sustain a solid rise. Technically there is no reason not to expect a similar development but in order to technically claim that the index is back onto the long-term bullish trend we need to see a weekly candle closing above the 1D MA200.
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US30 23rd AUGUST 2022Investors are still anticipating Fed Chair Jerome Powell's latest comments on inflation conditions and potential interest rate hikes during the US central bank's annual economic symposium to be held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming next Friday (26/8). Fed Chair Powell is likely to sound much more hawkish during his speech in Jackson Hole on Friday (26/8) at 10am than he did at his July 27, 2022 press conference, when he said the Fed Funds rate was back to neutral.
DOW JONES rejected on the Golden Ratio. What's next?The Dow Jones index (DJI) broke above its 1D MA200 (orange trend-line) early this week but got rejected on the 0.618 Fibonacci retracement level (from its January 05 All Time High (ATH)). Failing to hold the 1D MA200 as a Support, can result into a short-term pull-back to test the lower Fibonacci levels (0.5 and 0.382) as well as the 1D MA100 (green trend-line) and 1D MA50 (blue trend-line) as Support.
This short-term technical correction, shouldn't change the long-term trend-line, which after the huge 1W RSI bounce and the +15% rally since the June 17 low, has turned bullish. Even fundamentally, this market rally was supported by the first significant retrace on the Inflation Rate (black trend-line) and coincided exactly with the top on the US10Y (teal trend-line). So as you see, the rally had strong fundamental drivers, especially the US10Y, whose late sustainable rise since August 01, seems to worry the stock markets. A new peak there, can mark the new low on Dow.
Also, notice that all prior 1D MA200 break-outs since February 01, failed to create a sustainable continuation and if we connect those tops with two trend-lines, we can see the solid technical Resistance that Dow Jones needs to overcome in order to be able to post a sustainable bullish trend long-term into the new Bull Cycle.
P.S. Because the chart has the added elements of the US10Y and Inflation Rate plotted and are not constant, it may appear distorted based on your screen's/ browser dimensions. The original looks like this below, so if yours doesn't, adjust the vertical/ horizontal axis in order to make it look like this and better understand what is illustrated:
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DJIA showing technical strengthThe Dow is at a technical resistance level with a strong support level beneath the most recent run.
When technical lines are very precise, it means most of the trading is technical, from short-term professional traders or longer-term fundamentalists with technical backgrounds. When the smart money is trading, it tends to make the trend more sustainable.
At any time, this and the other major indexes may shift into a sideways trend for a while. Minor corrections are normal and necessary to sustain an overall uptrend. But the run out of the bottom has been solid.