Count-a-lishious

My apologies for being MIA most of this trading session but I have been working. Today’s tape has kept us in the sideways grind we’ve been enduring for weeks now. A hard run up followed by a sell off, followed by sideways action and as I’m typing this the tape is pushing back up again hard. Seems any remaining fear among investors has quickly dissipated – plus poor ole’ bucky just keeps asking for punishment. Time for a wave count:

What’s mostly important about this chart is that we have remained below the lower boundary of that channel going back to early August. Should we drop from here (orange) a lot of support awaits around the 1050 mark. Let’s zoom into this a bit:

Quite frankly – things are a bit messy right now. The best way to count it at this early stage is that we are either in some Frankenstein triangle (greeen) or we are whipsawing around on our way down to shake out the weak hands (orange).

I’m a bit split right now actually. My daily RSI_EMA suggests that we are on our way down and that we should continue until we reach the 20-30 cluster which would also coincide with the SPX 1050 support zone shown above. However, we seem to be consolidating and the dip buyers are already swarming in. NYSE A/D ratio is currently at 0.94, which is mildly bearish and I just can’t shake that inkling that another ramp attempt is in the works. Supporting that suspicion is also the Zero Lite which is completely flat at this point.

So, be on guard – the odds for trading these gyrations are horrible at the current time. Since we heading into X-Mas season liquidity will start draining quickly after the final EOM rush. So, anything could happen and unless the bears are able to finally gain some ground this might be nothing but some sideways consolidation before a final push higher. When it breaks it will break – and as of the final day of November the bears yet have to force the hand of the bulls since the beginning of March – the onus is on the market to confirm a trend change. But for the record – on a more long term basis this market is rolling over and it’s only a matter of time until we see a fast break of the eternal stair step pattern to the upside. But it might not happen until January, be prepared to roll your December and even your January puts into more longer term ones unless we see some downside soon. And even then it might be good medicine to buy yourself more time.

Finally, if you haven’t had a chance – please check out my weekend post – some very important long term charts in there.

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