The market was poised for huge gains today as US futures were up big last night. Although by the time the US cash market opened this morning, the rally had fizzled and stocks were spiraling downard. Most likely it was up on speculation the Spain bailout would save the world. But that speculation was crushed, and reality set in with a big selloff most of the day today. The flip to the downside was big. Internals were firmly bullish at the open and then flipped to become extremely bearish by the close. But all-in-all, the important takeaway point here is volume. Despite the big reversal today, volume was very light with NYSE shares totaling only 739 million. This is probably a "b" wave down. That's all.
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The daily S&P cash chart shows an outside reversal that would suggest the larger downtrend has resumed, i.e. Minor wave 2 up is complete and wave 3 down is underway. But with volume so light, and the correction so fast as far as time is concerned, it is tough to have confidence that a top is in. I think this is a fakeout. The market may fall a little more short term, possibly even toward 1275, but ultimately it will probably bottom and rally sharply for wave ((c)). I don't like trading corrections, or putting too much weight into anticipating when they will end since there are so many variables in EWP on how a correction can unfold. Instead I like to look for basic technical signs of a reversal instead. Today's internals and price action got my attention, but the volume was just too light, the length of the correction just doesn't look right. So I'm holding off calling a top and resumption of the downtrend for now. Only a solid break of the Minor wave 1 low at 1266.74 with increasing volume would have me reconsider that.
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In last post I suggested a top was forming partly because the 4 hour RSI was diverging from price, and since a candlestick topping formation was unfolding. Unfortunately the EUR/USD popped higher big time Sunday night on a gap which stopped out my short position. Still having confidence in the bearish outlook though, I re-establish 50% of that short position in anticipation of the gap closing this week. I just didn't realize the gap would close this quickly. If it rallied higher I would have slowly added to the position. But I didn't get the chance. The EUR/USD appears to have topped now and is headed towards 1.2300 at a minimum.
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