SHORT TERM: higher open then pullback, DOW -56
Overnight the Asian markets gained 0.7%. Europe opened higher and gained 0.5%. US index futures were lower overnight, but turned higher after the ECI was reported lower than expected. The market opened three points above yesterday’s SPX 2109 close, hit SPX 2114, then pulled back to 2106 all in the opening minutes. Then it started to drift higher. At 12:30 the SPX hit 2114 again, and started to pullback. Heading into the close the SPX hit 2102, then ended the week at 2104.
For the day the SPX/DOW were -0.25%, and the NDX/NAZ were -0.10%. Bonds gained 23 ticks, Crude lost $1.60, Gold added $7, and the USD was lower. Medium term support remains at the 2085 and 2070 pivots, with resistance at the 2131 and 2198 pivots. Today the WLEI was reported lower: 50.2% v 50.3%.
The market opened higher today, after the USD sold off and Bonds/Equities/Gold rallied following the ECI report before the open. After hitting SPX 2114 in the opening minutes, the market pulled back to 2106, then hit 2114 again in early afternoon before pulling back further heading into the close. A second choppy day during what appears to be continuing corrective market activity. More on this in the weekend update. Short term support is now at SPX 2095 and the 2085 pivot, with resistance at SPX 2114 and the 2131 pivot. Short term momentum displayed a negative divergence today before the market pulled back in the afternoon. Best to your weekend!
MEDIUM TERM: uptrend remains above SPX 2100
LONG TERM: bull market
the ELLIOTT WAVE lives on 
Alert for a possible double bottom on the DOW JONES.
graphic on the link below
http://www.capital76.com
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in my opinion we are facing a diagonal, this could be the third wave of and ending diagonal. so the upside should be capped by 2.200. but still an uptrend, Europe must complete the pattern with new highs then a reversal is due. In stocks market fifth wave is the weaker cause market is driving by hopes, in commodities fifth wave are the strongest cause market is driving by geopolitcal situation. So OIl could fall very sharply after a retracement. Now we can have a retracement after new low in OIl: this can support S&P and DOW forming new highs. But when Oil will fall sharply again for intermeditate 3 of 5 Primary wave 4 in S&P500 will be underway.
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Stayed above the 50d which leaves Monday open for an up day for a short term top.Possibly Tuesday but I m saying that ll do it.Personally I wonder why everyone is bearish (CNN greed/fear index for example).Thats pretty puzzling.I think the whole year will be basically flat or down slightly but to be bearish at this point in time is interesting.Good luck all.
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Who cares about CNN Greed/Fear it does not measure sentiment. Could one of the CNN Greed/Fear believer please enlighten me how the 7 indicator it feeds from measure greed/fear sentiment. Seriously because not one of you would have been able to pinpoint swing top trend reversal using it this pathetic indicator. Not to mention that bottom swing reversals have happen at varying inconsistent low reading ranging from 3 to 20. This indicator is a COMPLETE JOKE!!!!!
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Ole!!!
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learn 🙂
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Thanks Tony. Looking forward to your report tomorrow. Am bullish into next week. I’m done with ER play. Made some ok profit. $FB and TWTR burned me pretty bad. I’m also long China, as I project a nice rally in the works.
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I took some long position in China today 🙂
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Bull vs Bear Sentiment Survey:
Say Yea if bullish = 99.9%
Say Nay if Bearish = Three Amigos + El Guapo
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NAY
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CNN fear greed has market in extreme fear,not anywhere near bullish
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..at an extreme, bullish is meeting bearish, or the other way around, its Zero gravity, leveled out… Like extreme pain converge to extreme pleasure.
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CNN fear/greed indicator is garbage and it does not measure sentiment. If you believe it them please enlighten me how the 7 indicator it feeds from measure sentiment. Also don’t need that junk to pinpoint trend reversals heck you could even have pick a swing top lately using it
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Meant …..you could not ….
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Add me to that list. We could still make new highs. But I’m in the camp with these guys. Puerto Rico is going to default Saturday. Greece just kicked the can down the road. Dollar will rise 10 percent oil to 30. I could go on but hy bother. Pug has an interesting count. Regardless I’m in the camp we see 1820 minimum in the next 6 weeks
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Thanks Tony and all on board.
Well the doctors in promise of infertility have done well, rumors of 10 000 Usd of tax credit for voluntary infertility surgery 2009 onwards granted by the Obama administration 🙂
But nature is smart, it creates optimism out of nowhere, lures us to breed into prosperous times, then when hard times appear it makes us wonder why the heck we took on responsibilities for propagating yet another generation. Have we already endured a depression or can the collective mood get any worse ? Will nature once again provide for a boom, just wondering…no magic yet.
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Still very bullish short term (i.e. days). Loaded up at the close.
Expect either rate rise in Sep, or Fed to indicate in Sep that they’ll be raising in the Oct meeting. Language change was key and Bloomberg is being very quiet about the possibility – both increase the odds in my mind. Also the odds of a nasty fall beforehand IMO.
August looks like it will be fun and hopefully very profitable too.
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Did someone have the SPX labeled as an Expanding Diagonal? I think maybe Blackjak100 or someone else had this posted before. I would like to give credit where credit is due.
Anyway, here’s that scenario if it works out, with the ‘e’ wave targeting 2150ish.
Have Fun. 😉
https://www.tradingview.com/x/rZ0MZlF3/
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tony caldaro says:
July 29, 2015 at 5:04 pm
The problem with running a triangle from February is that no trend ended in February.
From the February downtrend low there was one uptrend into May, a downtrend into July, and now a new uptrend. Anything else would be a forced count.
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What’s that INT triangle? 😉 We’ll see.
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Roughly in the ball park of my target too, although mine has nothing to do with triangles. Expecting top out 2150 to 2190.
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nice chart gto. Thanks. I can see that happening. If it gets up near 2150, I may join newbie in UVXY. haha
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Why on earth would they raise rates if they dont have to??? There is absolutely no reason for them to do such a thing if not contraint.
The real question is : what is it that needs to happen for them to be forced to raise rates?
I can see only one thing – a serious sell off in bonds. The long end. That would make them raise rates, they would have no other option to stop the slide, as their funding would get more and more expensive.
My 2c.
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Fed does NOT want to raise rate, Banks are lobbying hard for rate increase, they have a lot of people making noise for rate increase for them. Even though Fed is under heavy pressure for increase BUT grandma Yellen will never come under their pressure SO NO RATE INCREASE this year.
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