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Tag: trend lines

  • Bottom Fishing

    EOD:  2:25 AM

    SPX overshot the Crab’s 1.618, whichever Point X we use.   The next major lines of harmonic support are are the red pattern’s 2.24 at 1342, correlating with the purple pattern’s 2.618 at 1341.

    Given the level of oversold on the day, here’s an alternative view.

    UPDATE:  11:55 AM

    The Crab Pattern I posted about earlier pulled a fast one on us.  It either busted, or I drew it wrong.

    Technically, it’s forbidden for Point C to exceed Point A — kind of like Wave 1/Wave 4 overlaps in Elliottworld.   But, it happens.   I’ve redrawn the Crab to begin with the March 23 1386 low instead of the March 29 1391 low — which means that the 1.618 extension is 1364.92 instead of 1372.51.

    Note the daily RSI tag on the same trend line (red, dashed) that stopped the Oct 4 and Nov 25 declines. The previous tags are highlighted in light blue.   This decline is picking up momentum, so the RSI TL and the Crab pattern might get mowed down.

    But, be cautious.   Like any trading system, once you start bending the rules in Harmonics, it opens up a can of worms.  Markets frequently overshoot logical targets, and it’s no cause to discard the methodology.

    I’m taking some profits off the table at these levels, and will let the rest ride essentially risk free.  Note that 1364 is the .707 of the 1340-1422 move.  If it doesn’t hold, the next support is at the .786, which would equal 1357.  An intra-day push to 1357 and close at 1364 would be interesting.

     

    ORIGINAL POST

    After yesterday’s close below the rising wedge, we can safely consider it officially broken.  Now, the question is whether SPX will freefall in an epic fail of the bull market, or find support at some interim level for another leg up.

    In the near term, we’re approaching a potential Crab Pattern turning point at 1372.51.  We might have reached it yesterday but for the little acceleration channel SPX has been in since 1422.  Today, the channel passes right through 1372, so we could get a good test.

    This isn’t a big pattern, so we might not see earth-shattering results, but it should be good for at least a nice bounce if not an outright reversal.

    I think an outright reversal might be in the cards, though.  The hourly RSI shows positive divergence with this morning’s leg down, and daily RSI shows a tag of an important internal trend line.  But, it’s the weekly RSI chart that, as a bear, really gives me pause.

    Expanding the RSI chart gives us a clear view of a trend line that might provide significant lift at these price levels (ignore the compressed upper chart.)

    I’ve also been watching VIX’s price action, constructing some probable channels months ago: the yellow channel guiding the downside, transitioning to the red channels for the subsequent rise.  Since then, I’ve barely adjusted them.

    Note how well they’ve called the turns.  At this point, they hint at a likely breather for VIX.  All things considered, I think we’re likely to see a backtest of the VIX falling wedge that will correspond with a return to the other side of the red channel.  It could happen any time, but might well occur coincident with the afore-mentioned bounce in SPX.

    All this begs the question, what kind of bounce will we see?  As we discussed the other day, this rising wedge is a reasonable facsimile of the 2010-2011 one [see: Analog Watch.]

    The most likely drawing of the current wedge puts the apex around 1460-1470 somewhere around May 7-11, meaning we reached only 88.6% of the potential in both time and price at the recent 1422 high.  [see: Was That It?] If we repeat the pattern, we’ll head back up to tag that apex — exactly as we did in May 2011 at 1370 (note the dashed white line that connects the March 2011 apex to the May 2011 top.)

    More importantly, however, we’d tag the upper bound of the huge rising wedge (red dashed) that dwarfs the rising wedge (yellow, solid) that just broke down.

    I’ve drawn its upper bound as the biggest, boldest red line I can muster on the above chart.  Why?

     

    Stay tuned.

  • Charts I’m Watching: March 22, 2012

    ORIGINAL POST: We’re finally seeing reactions on the harmonic pattern completions we’ve been watching for what seems like forever [see: Everything’s Coming Up Crabs.]RUT completed a Crab Pattern (in red) within the last leg of a Bat Pattern (purple) off the 2011 highs.  It never has cleared the TL off the May and July highs.  The May 2011 high was a double-top to 2007’s.

    COMP completed a tiny Crab within a little Butterfly pattern and tagged a key trend line off the 2007 highs.

    I call it a trend line because it’s exactly parallel to the line connecting the 2002 and 2009 lows.  A reversal here would make for four touches — i.e. a channel.  But, COMP could continue bucking its bearish divergence and go up to complete the larger Butterfly pattern (purple) at 3250-3295.

    DJIA still hasn’t made a new high since completing a Crab Pattern a stone’s throw away from a Butterfly Pattern (purple) completion at 13,338.64.  We’re still watching for a clean break of the rising wedge in the price chart and the trend line in the RSI chart.

     

    Though, it’s important to note that, at these prices, we came within 28 points of completing a Bat pattern (yellow) at the .886 (13,317) in the weekly chart.  That would make for a logical back test if/when the rising wedge finally breaks.  It might also be the 5th and final wave target if today’s move stays within the wedge itself — which is just as likely.

    Coming up….SPX.