Strong Banks / Point of inflection for the Markets Bank Earnings have been great!
Though, The market wasn’t overly thrilled about it.
We believe this is due in part to the uncertainty it caused regarding the fed rate path.
The bank failure(s) that occurred, and fear of continued failures, cast doubt on the feds ability to continue to raise rates. This elevated markets, in our opinion, in conjunction with favorable inflation and NFP reports showing a cooling economy.… then the bank earnings arrived snd acted as a headwind to the indexes.
What we think is important to watch for:
1) ES1! 4200
This region has been a repeated battleground for
Price action. and a close above it .. or failure at it, would be a good indicator for midterm direction.
2) FED comments on the banks earnings
Overall bullish on the market- but I do think we may range for a bit longer.
3) XLF may yield sustained alpha
Es!
S&P EMAs at Historical Critical PointCME_MINI:ES1!
So I opened the chart at the weekend and flicked through the time frames and upon punching the Weekly I noticed the 21EMA and the 89EMAs were pretty tight. I decided the rest of the morning looking through the historical relationship of these two EMAs. It turns out that each time the 21EMA has come down to the 89EMA, there has been a violent reaction. In general, when there are moderate to minimal macros effecting the markets, this reaction represents a strong opportunity to long. In fact, the 21EMA has never dipped below the 89EMA and recovered until months to years later. On the flip side, on the two occasions the 21EMA did dip below the 89EMA, was in 2001 and 2008...two very significant moments in market history.
I also noted that once the break happens the S&P tends to bottom at around 40%-50% of that breaking point. If we were to use today's valuation, a 45% drop from today is around 2200. That is also the bottom of the COVID crash i.e. where the real market was going to be trading before infinite stimulus was provided by the Fed.
I found this interesting as it seems in these troubling times and with a 'nuclear winter' around the corner in Europe, there is a real macro concern for markets. I'm leaning bearish and I think this rally will fail like every rally this year and lead the 21EMA below the 89EMA. Obviously, I react to the chart and should there be a strong reaction off the touch upwards, I will be flipping bullish.
Weekly Market Update: ES Waking up from a Bearish Slumber?Recently, the market has been reluctant to give back any gains over the course of the last three weeks.
But is that changing now?
Price action is a function of trader sentiment. Knowing that, every morning I wake up and ask myself, “WHY would any trader (fundamentally or technically) want to own stocks right here”? Seriously, there is no case to be made either on a fundamental or technical basis. Nonetheless, that is not how price patterns form. You need someone to take the other side of your trading thesis. Without that liquidity, I think the market would have other (more serious) issues.
Technically, I have the ES having just completed its D-wave in a triangle pattern that started on December 22nd. That means we should decline in a 3-wave pattern in our E-wave for completion of our larger B (as shown on the chart). This retracement down should ultimately complete around the area of BEST CASE: ES-4005 and worst case (if the triangle pattern is correct) ES-3877. However, determining that as a legitimate bottom will be whether we can decline and maintain positive divergence on the MACD indicator.
I’ll conclude by keeping this simple. If at anytime during my expected decline into the 4005-3877 area, MACD prints lower than the red-line on the chart... That is a clue we will get continuation…and we will continue to do so, until we can build a pattern of bottoms on positive divergence. Keep that top of mind over the course of the next couple weeks.
ES - We heading to key resistance....ES - We heading to key resistance....
Can we break above 4170 and go towards 4200 areas?
Highs: 4170 - Lows: 4100
Pattern - Wedge up side target areas 4200 areas...
We just had CPI as we have dollar declining stocks rising higher time will tell...
Trade your own trade plan!!
Trade Journal
SP500, All you need to know right now.S&P5OO, Emini, ES, US500
Hello traders, welcome back to another marjet breakdown.
In this video, I speak about the recent price action on the SP500 and what we could expect in the coming weeks.
With every bar printed, new information is showen that can change the probability of each event.
Trade safely,
Trader Leo.
Weekly Market Update: Triangle Pattern Conclusion UnderwayAs of right now I would say the triangle pattern certainly is the prevailing pattern thesis. A triangle pattern is one that neither gives bulls nor bears much hope or despair as it tugs at both camps because its range bound. For this trader, I would classify myself as bearish on the overall market, however that does not preclude me from getting long for profit. As of my writing, I am currently short the ES and plan on closing out those positions down in my target box.
As we begin our descent into my target box, I should have enough price action to dial in my position closing area more so. From today’s price of 4130 down into the area of approximately (The Sweet Spot) 3950, I plan to access the pattern for a potential long. If price has declined in a corrective manner (3-Wave Pattern) into my target box, then a long into the 4300-4500 makes sense.
I wanted to keep this post simple, concise and to the point.
We have enough noise to contend with between this regional banking crisis, inflation, the Fed, Jobs and the overall economy.
Based on the pattern I have as of today, the above are my expectations…and as of today, I have no additional information that would cause me to change that analysis.
Best to all,
Chris
US 500 LongIf this is an Inverse Head and Shoulders chart pattern, 4200 is the target.
What we need to see is the price get above the recent POC.
Blood is in the streets.
The Fed needs to get some new expectations out and deliver some news that comforts the market. Or this is their way of creating financial turmoil that gets job losses that crushes the demand. You choose your narrative.
Or, maybe the news is designed to shake everyone's confidence so that the actual money men of this world can buy at a discount.
4/4 Watchlist + NotesSPY - We were spot on with our analysis going into today's session. Last night I mentioned that we had a strong close on the daily and weekly and that I wanted to see us push higher. We also stayed within a 1% range today as I had also hoped to see (.71% range total today). Didn't quite get the movement we were hoping for (Inside Day), but we still were accurate otherwise. We closed green on the day and made a smaller green candle than we did Friday, which signals a few things for me. Here are all the considerations I have currently for my prediction for tomorrow:
1) Slightly overextended on the daily + close to exhaustion risk, (Bearish)
2) Still have strong momentum on the daily and weekly, (Bullish)
3) We are nearing the top of a broadening formation created a few weeks back, (Slightly Bullish)
4) Finished green today with a healthy looking green candle (Bullish)
With all of this in mind, I think that we now need to target 412-413 range sometime this week. There is really nothing stopping SPY from continuing to run other than the fact that it is in extended territory. For tomorrow my prediction is simple: I am slightly bullish, but understand that we can move hard in either direction tomorrow. Tomorrow's movement will be heavily influenced by 2 things: Whether we gap up or down during PM, and whether we break today's high or low first. If we break today's high first (Not including PM movement) then I think 412.91 is our target for tomorrow. If we break the low first, then I believe we could see somewhere in the 406.50-407.50 range. The 3rd scenario I can see happening is we take out today's high and then proceed to dump and take out today's low, forming an engulfing day. I think the first two scenarios are the most realistic, but they are all valid scenarios I could see happening tomorrow. Overall: Skeptically Bullish
Watchlist + Bias:
SHOP - 3-1 Daily: Bullish
QQQ - 2-1 Daily: Neutral
MSFT - 2-1 Daily: Neutral
PYPL - 2-1 Daily and Weekly: Slightly Bullish
DOCU - 2-1 Daily and 3-1-1 Weekly: Neutral
Main Watch: SHOP and DOCU
SHOP - 3-1 Daily with a huge gap that is partially filled to the upside. I am hoping to break to break today's high tomorrow and push higher. I think it has really good momentum to keep pushing higher. Would love to target 48.57 tomorrow. Will maybe play downside too, but mostly just focused on the upside move
DOCU - This one still hasn't broken out of the inside week setup. it is now actively a 3-1-1-1, which is just unheard of for the weekly chart. Im open to playing either side. I think with this one being in a 2-1 daily, we will get to see which direction we will finally move in for the next few days/weeks. Considering swinging as well. Preferably want to play upside, but I will take what I can get.
Yesterday's Main Watch:
SQ - (Status:) Winner (Personally Trade?) Yes
we opened under our put entry, but the play was still valid from open in my opinion. Cons from my trade peaked around 23% and I actually ended up taking a small loss because I was looking for a better entry to swing puts, but ended up not liking the swing setup, so I just took a small loss on my starter position + the extra cons I added when averaging down. Overall was in for about 40% of my target position size, and took about a 12% loss on that which translates to a roughly 5% loss had it been a normal position for me. I still count this as a winner for the list because it saw solid gains from a very readable entry. Had I been day trading and not looking for a swing entry, I would have had a different outcome, but at the end of the day, I had a plan and followed it, which is something I can't and won't be upset over. Weekly is still not broken out of, so SQ remains on my personal watchlist for the rest of the week. I wanna see what tomorrow holds for SQ before considering a new position.
Watchlist Stats:
1/1 Spy Predictions
1/1 Main Watch Plays
Top Winner: SQ (23%+)
Personal Stats:
0/1 On Trades This Week
Overall Green/Red: Red (extremely small). Early in the week. Can easily come back from today's small loss.
Trade Smart Tomorrow!
S&P 500 continue with the Uptrend ☝️On S&P 500 is nice to see strong buying reaction from the price 4118 , there is nice to see strong volume area....
Where is lot of contract accumulated...
I thing that buyers from this area will be defend this long position...
and when the price come back to this area, strong buyers will be push up the market again...
Strong volume area + Uptrend is my mainly reason for this long trade....
Happy trading
Dale
ES Quarterly AnalysisES now at pivotal area, 50% retracement of the down move at $4201.75.
Staying neutral while paying attention to internals, news and data releases I believe will be just as critical as ever when attempting to risk in these markets.
Strong candle formed buying all previous quarters selling from highs, so I do think there's potential for continuation to the upside.
Weekly SPX Trade(another A ICT setup) 3/29/23Beautiful setup today and was able to catch a nice price swing. Here was once again my thinking for today and my reasoning for entry: Factors for trade:
Big London/Asian Session or Afterhours-Premarket run up.
Swept liquidity(high of day, premarket high)
bearish news
$ES - Key levels - will shorts be trapped??Weird day today with NYSE VOLD up all day while NASDAQ VOLDQ down all day. Clearly shown by the big range indecision movements.
Key level to watch for a potentially huge bull run
- $4011 area, a breakout could trigger a significant bull run and catch shorts off-guard
Any thoughts?
$SPY $SPX $ES $QQQ $NAS $NQ
Special Update: Just a Precautionary MeasureAs of yesterdays close my entire 401k which is reasonably substantial was shifted to a 4% Money Market Account.
This will come as no surprise to my members (nor my followers on Trading View) that I’m not particularly bullish. From a planning standpoint I’m more comfortable with 4% and NO capital at risk than being exposed to the US Market. Maybe I’m early in doing so… but I felt it more honest to at least make my members aware of my actions.
Please do not ask me if I advise you do the same. I’m not a financial advisor nor am I licensed to provide such advice.
3/28 Daily Plan Please see attached videos for daily targets.
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03/27 Weekly Plan. ES Futures March
Weekly Pivot is 3,990
Targets
1. 4,038
2. 4,080
3. 4,130
Targets
1. 3,950
2. 3,890
3. 3,835
Now trading at 4,026
Alerts
You will receive alerts in this channel every time ES hits (2M candle close):
1. Weekly opening 4,008
2. Weekly pivot at 3,990
3. Each weekly target.
**Side notes: ***
1. Balance is daily timeframe
2. Balance in weekly timeframe; H4082.5, L3840.75, HB3962
3. Balance in monthly timeframe. H4208, L3814, HB4020.
4. When trading off weekly levels, each level will act as support and resistance, “no trade zones” do not apply to weekly plan.
Have a great week and trade safe. @everyone
SPY/NQ Short-Squeeze Setting Up Nicely.Are you following my research yet?
Last weekend, I published a YouTube video suggesting the NASDAQ/TECH were poised for a 15~20% rally - driving the SPY 7 to 9% higher.
Now, my SPY Cycle Patterns called today as a Pullback and tomorrow as a Momentum Rally.
Get ready for a massive SHORT-SQUEEZE over the next few weeks. April will start off with the Nasdaq/SPY targeting higher peaks.
Follow my research.
Taking another shotSell: 4010 or higher
Stop: 4035
Notes : second sell attempt based on the model
The model:
The Ingenuity Trading Model is a Geometric Markov Model with specific inputs related to Price, Time, Volume , and Volatility. The model attempts to predict local minimums and maximums in price on a daily and weekly basis. A fancy way of saying a trading system that detects specific patterns in price, time, volume, and volatility and indicates whether to buy or sell.
On winning trades after 1 day take at least ⅓ of the position off and move stop to breakeven