Alive

Oil dripping on my head
Let's go back to bed
Bring you back
Bring you back
From the dead
From the dead
Wishing you were here by me
Wishing you were here
Let's massage history
All the money's gone
All the money's gone
Funny it was never here
It was never here
Here's a song
Here's a song
To massage along
History along
Come with me
To the other side
Not everyone makes it out alive
Come with me
To the other side not everyone makes it out
Alive

Sonic Youth, Massage the History, 2009

Price proves to be unsustainable above the gray channel (again).

The T volume oscillator drops significantly, showing the strength of the profit-taking yesterday and suggesting that the market does need some consolidation after such a powerful start to the year.

Watch for declining resistance at the high to confirm whether the move is complete, or not, as the averages catch up with price.

Chart of S&P 500 for 30 January 2018

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Fly Me Away

Fly me away on an aeroplane
High in the sky
Wanna see you again
Wanna know this time

Gonna tell you what I'm feeling
Gonna know this time
Gonna get it back, that feeling

Miles and miles of sun
Endless roads, twist on
Don't wanna live a life
In a world that's all the same
The crazy little things
That you do are magical

This crazy life
This crazy world
We're living in is
Magical

Goldfrapp, Fly Me Away, 2005. Songwriters: Alison Elizabeth Goldfrapp / William Owen Gregory

Market gaps up and beyond the possible declining angle at the mid week high, and closes with yet another major high, in-line with the Large(r) T structure, as the market continues to show no signs of letting up on the parabolic move.

T volume oscillator turns back above zero.

Chart of S&P 500 for 29 January 2018

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Mirror

I'll be your mirror
Reflect what you are, in case you don't know
I'll be the wind, the rain and the sunset
The light on your door to show that you're home

When you think the night has seen your mind
That inside you're twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands
Cause I see you

I find it hard to believe you don't know
The beauty that you are
But if you don't let me be your eyes
A hand in your darkness, so you won't be afraid

When you think the night has seen your mind
That inside you're twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands
Cause I see you

I'll be your mirror

Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, I'll Be Your Mirror, 1966

Beautiful words, especially when sung by the lovely voice of Nico.

The T volume oscillator turns negative (again) indicating that there is (still) significant profit-taking occurring at the highs and puts us on alert for the possibility of some more selling given that yesterday was an echo high and a projection for some kind of a peak from the 2 main structures.

More to come still?, yes, most likely in due course, as we have seen profit-taking and traders chasing the market higher throughout this year's advance as indicated by the cash-build up line since the 18 December high in the oscillator.

Chart of S&P 500 for 26 January 2018

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Poppies

But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow falls in the river,
A moment white – then melts for ever;
Or like the borealis race,
That flit ere you can point their place;
Or like the rainbow's lovely form
Evanishing amid the storm.-
Nae man can tether time or tide;
The hour approaches Tam maun ride;
That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane,
That dreary hour he mounts his beast in;
And sic a night he taks the road in
As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in.

Robert Burns, Tam o'Shanter, 1790

Price above the extremes triggers some profit-taking, as we move into the next projection from the DB T structure and the Large(r) T structure, and an echo high.

Keep your eyes upon the wheel.

Chart of S&P 500 for 25 January 2018

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Monkey

The creature in the sky
Got sucked in a hole
Now there's a hole in the sky

And the ground's not cold
And if the ground's not cold
Everything is gonna burn
We'll all take turns, I'll get mine too

This monkey's gone to Heaven

Pixies, Monkey gone to Heaven, 1989

The Market continues to ratchet up the gains.

First major target of the year acheived, but is there more?

Chart of S&P 500 for 24 January 2018

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Angel

You are my angel
Come from way above to bring me love
Her eyes, she's on the dark side
Neutralize every man in sight

To love you, love you, love you

You are my angel
Come from way above

To love you, love you, love you

Massive Attack, Angel, 1998

More of the same, climbing, climbing, forcing participation and bearish capitulation. The Buy signal continues…

You can only admire the strength of the trend, and the power behind this market.

Above all of the usual measures of extreme.

Interesting days.

Chart of S&P 500  for 23 January 2018

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Constantine

It's either victory, or don't bother. The only thing worth doing is the impossible. Everything else is gray. You're born… as a man… with the nerves of a soldier, the apprehension of an angel, to lift a phrase, but there is no use for it. Here? Where's the use for it? You're set up to be a philosopher or a king or Shakespeare, and this is all they give you? This? Twenty- odd years of school which is all instruction in how to be ordinary… or they'll fucking kill you, they fucking will, and then it's a career, which is not the same thing as existence… I want unlimited things. I want everything. A real love. A real house. A real thing to do… every day…

The Gambler, 2014, Dir. Rupert Wyatt

Strong momentum continues to push the market higher regardless of any warnings.

T volume oscillator turns positive again.

Chart of S&P 500 for 22 January 2018

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Upon the brow

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow —
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within a Dream, 1849

A pause just below the high, and the T volume oscillator turns negative. Some divergences starting to show at the new high, and some signs of deceleration of the trend. Some warnings continue.

Obviously the market has room to drop quite a long way before finding any significant support and we should therefore be prepared for this eventuality. In the meantime, price continues to hold up above the Buy Signal line whilst price catches up with itself.

Chart of S&P 500 for 19 January 2018

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Put a Spell on You

I put a spell on you
'Cause you're mine

You better stop the things you do
I ain't lyin'
No I ain't lyin'

You know I can't stand it
You're runnin' around
You know better daddy
I can't stand it cause you put me down
Yeah, Yeah

– Nina Simone, I Put a Spell on You, 1965

Market refuses to consolidate or correct any further and rallies back to the all time high, and back to the top of the gray channel and above the upper extreme.

Chart of S&P 500 for 18 January 2018

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