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Waiting game

Still on a short alert, and eyeing up significant support just below – 2100 being a site of significant Put interest for tomorrow if the market doesn't rally into expiration, and 2150 and 2160 offering some resistance if the market does rally.

And another high ARMs reading…

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Steve Rushton September 15, 2016No Comments

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Arms over 2

Covered at 2125 in the expectation of a short-term bounce, and prepare for short covering rally into options expiration on Friday.

High ARMS and low NYMO readings suggest that we may have seen enough panic to turn the market around short-term.

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Steve Rushton September 14, 2016No Comments

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Great recovery

And a fantastic bounce at the breakout level of 2120.
Short positions no longer valid above 2140, and now of course looks like the market put in a low on Friday.

If Friday's low holds, then we can construct a small T structure marked in blue which projects strength into September 20 and 27.

However we are at an inflection point and need to see some confirmation of the recovery.

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Steve Rushton September 13, 2016No Comments

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S/T Sell Signal at 2160

With the gap-down below 2170 we have a Short-term Sell Signal initiated at an important cycle high.

We finally received the catalyst for the squeeze that's been building, cancelling out the previous weak bullish signal and cancelling out the potential small T structures discussed.

We are now looking for a new major low to form the next large T structure.

Initial support could be on the important pink rising Gann line at about 2109 on monday.

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Steve Rushton September 10, 2016No Comments

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Something gives

Trading within an increasingly tight range and within the mid-channel, which is unusual behaviour and makes signalling direction very difficult at the moment. This reflects the long period of range bound price action. Something gives soon.

Approaching a short-term cycle high, active today and into tuesday, which corresponds with the small blue T structure pointing to a high today, BUT could be drawn one day later and this would point to a short-term high on Tuesday…

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Steve Rushton September 9, 2016No Comments

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Literacy

Reading is the path to knowledge, and knowledge is the path to wealth.

On the 50th Literacy Day I would like to recommend a little book written in 1917:

One-Way Pockets: The Book of Books on Wall Street Speculation
by Don Guyon

A powerful little book that wastes no time at all in explaining just how to speculate on Wall Street, and is as relevant now as it was 99 years ago.

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Steve Rushton September 8, 2016No Comments

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Short term Buy Signal at 2184

Price makes a short-term S/T Buy Signal at 2184, but upside seems relatively restricted.

Market seems to have shaken off that descending channel and the T volume oscillator turns positive confirming the prescence of the small cluster T.

The similar lows of the August 2 low and recent series of lows makes the unconfirmed possibility of a combination of the the 2 blue T structures, marked gray projecting highs for September 20.

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Steve Rushton September 7, 2016No Comments

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labor of love

Pop and drop but didn't fail on the day.

Covered Short position at 2182, and potentially back on a Buy Signal with the recovery into the close above 2178.
Just wanted to see a bit more above the descending channel to confirm.

Not completely convincing due to underkiss of rising Gann line at 2084, but a possible small cluster T structure pointing to cycle high on the 8-9 September.

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Steve Rushton September 3, 2016No Comments

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Without borders or boundaries

Neo: I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid… you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you. (The Matrix – 1999)

Market remains on a Sell Signal, for now, and looks like marking out a descending channel, targetting support at 2145.
Finding support below the tightening bollingers, which are becoming extremely tight.
Strength above that channel would indicate a change in direction.

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Steve Rushton September 2, 2016No Comments

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Short into September

Yesterday's action produced a cover and short Signal at 2165, as it broke down through the important rising Gann line from the June 27 low. This line will probably become a resistance line for future moves up.

The lower bollinger held the day, and we saw a sort of recovery trying to cling onto the 2171 level.

Starting to build a downward sloping resistance line above the recent highs, so a break above those will change the picture somewhat.

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Steve Rushton September 1, 2016No Comments

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci

“Imagination is more important than knowledge”
Albert Einstein

“All of our days are numbered. We can not afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world; a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you can hold on to that flame, great things can be constructed around it; things that are massive and powerful and world changing. All held up by the tiniest of ideas.”
Nick Cave, 20,000 days on Earth

2026 Positions

(All numbers refer to SPX)

S/T BUY Signal at 7586 on 04 June

COVER Signal at 7554 on 03 June

S/T BUY Signal at 7413 on 20 May

COVER Signal at 7411 on 15 May

S/T BUY Signal at 6457 on 31 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6398 on 31 Mar

S/T SELL Signal at 6543 on 26 Mar

S/T BUY Signal above 6600 at 6620 on 25 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6567 on 25 Mar

S/T SELL Signal below 6554 on 24 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6581 on 24 Mar

S/T SELL Signal below 6554 on 24 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6581 on 24 Mar

S/T SELL Signal below 6554 on 24 Mar

COVER Signal at 6590 on 23 Mar

S/T BUY Signal at 6623 on 23 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6563 at 6600 on 23 Mar

S/T SELL Signal at 6666 on 18 Mar

COVER Signal at 6693 on 18 Mar

S/T BUY Signal at 6729 on 16 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6668 at 6698 on 16 Mar

S/T SELL Signal at 6756 on 11 Mar

S/T BUY Signal above 6826 on 10 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6792 on 10 Mar

S/T SELL Signal at 6765 on 10 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6772 on 09 Mar

S/T SELL Signal below 6810 on 06 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6822 on 05 Mar

S/T SELL Signal below 6822 on 05 Mar

COVER Signal below 6849 on 05 Mar

S/T BUY Signal at 6882 on 04 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6849 on 04 Mar

S/T SELL Signal below 6845 on 03 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6877 on 02 Mar

S/T SELL Signal below 6850 on 02 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6857 on 27 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6857 on 27 Feb

COVER Signal below 6884 at 6857 on 27 Feb

S/T BUY Signal at 6884 on 23 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6850 on 23 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6837 on 23 Feb

COVER Signal at 6864 on 23 Feb

S/T BUY Signal at 6883 on 18 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6834 on 17 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6888 on 12 Feb

COVER Signal at 6915 on 12 Feb

S/T BUY Signal at 6899 on 06 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6938 on 06 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6901 on 04 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6915 on 03 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6915 on 03 Feb

COVER Signal at 6942 on 03 Feb

S/T BUY Signal at 6968 on 02 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6938 on 30 Jan

S/T SELL Signal at 6910 on 30 Jan

COVER Signal at 6940 on 30 Jan

S/T BUY Signal at 6934 on 29 Jan

S/T SELL Signal at 6907 on 29 Jan

COVER Signal at 6934 on 29 Jan

S/T BUY Signal above 6905 at 6923 on 22 Jan

COVER Signal at 6849 on 21 Jan

S/T SELL Signal below 6894 at 6843 on 20 Jan

COVER Signal below 6925 at 6843 on 20 Jan

S/T BUY Signal at 6961 on 15 Jan

COVER Signal below 6934 at 6925 on 14 Jan

S/T BUY Signal above 6890 at 6900 on 05 Jan

COVER Short Signal at 6864 on 02 Jan

S/T SELL Signal at 6837 on 02 Jan

Mission

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