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A Tuesday Look at the SP500 Index
A Tuesday Look at the SP500 Index
It's not quite mid-week but the S&P; 500 (and other US Equity Market Indexes) have broken significant moving average support and are hoving near a critical floor that - if broken - would set-up an immediate test of the November lows. Let's look. S&P; 500 Daily Chart: Before getting into ...
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We're All Set to Test or Break the November Lows
Trading Goddess — ... Let’s focus our attention now on the daily chart. Again, as in last night’s post on the S&P 500, the analysis still stands. In sum, moving averages in the most bearish orientation, trend still confirmed as down, price forming a consolidation pattern. ...

S&P 500: We’re All Set To Test Or Break The November Lows
Daily Markets — ... expansion move. If you look at the retracement from November, it looks like a rising trend channel or more specifically some sort of bear flag pattern (perhaps a wedge).  There are bearish implications for such patterns. The larger structure is clearly in a downtrend, price continues to make lower lows and lower highs, and the orientation of the moving averages is as bearish as it gets. Daily S&P 500 : [image] Let’s focus our attention now on the daily chart.  Again, as in last night’s post on the S&P 500 [image] , the analysis still stands.  In sum, moving ...

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