The routine series of technical scans I run each market day have little-by-little turned over a rock and found something the past couple sessions that all the weeping and gnashing of teeth over the S&P 500’s -6.2% pullback from January’s all-time highs has predictably missed: many popular market measures have reached trend line support. In more than a few cases, major multi-year support.
The larger context in almost every case here is a bearish one: price is nearing the apex of an unsustainably acute rising wedge, being rejected off an ABCD target building since 2009’s lows, or crumbling beneath the pall of a bearish harmonic pattern begun in 2011 or even 2007. As an investor or long-term position trader, these are the patterns to acknowledge and for which to prepare.
But on shorter time horizons, risk management demands that it’s time to consider: until the lines break on this selection of 25(ish) charts – which would likely happen all at once, given their prevalence and uniformity – this pullback may be over.
If a market rally is going to build without moving into a deep correction, right here and now stands as an excellent candidate for a reassertion of bullish control.
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