Sunday, May 31, 2009

880 & 930

After this horrible choppy month I hope we'll see a bit more action in June...


First, take a look at the three scenarios I posted last weekend.

http://ew-analysis.blogspot.com/2009/05/another-boring-week.html

Well, all three counts are still valid, although the bullish one is now more likely than last week.


The situation is as follows: long above ~930, short below ~880; sounds quite easy, doesn't it?















Since I still prefer the downside (at the moment I don't see how the market can break all the resistance lines and the 200DMA), I looked at the previous bear market rallies. I found some nice similarities:















Nice week folks! ; )

Friday, May 29, 2009

It looks orange...

... but I need a confirmation on Monday. That means that the low of wave ii must hold (904) and since we are in a wave iii we shouldn't see big corrections till 930-940.






Enjoy the weekend ; )

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

still undecided...

Two trading days have passed since my weekend update and nothing has changed...

Below you can see the updated count for my two bearish scenarios. But keep in mind that the bullish scenario is still possible as long as the market doesn't break the strong support level at 875-880.


I replaced the high for wave (ii) (or alt B) after Monday's rally. The action today in the afternoon looks like we completed 5 waves down from the high.


Sunday, May 24, 2009

Another boring week...

After another week without any decision neither for the bulls nor for the bears it's time to update my intermediate count for the SPX.

First of all let's take a look on my last forecast (from the 10th of May). The first downwave was about as long as expected and finished at 880. But the following correction was much stronger and retraced nearly 100%. Wave [iii] should now be underway with the first two subwaves already completed.















This is my favourite count:















You see that I labeled the high at 930 as Intermediate (4). From this follows that the SPX is now in Intermediate (5),  i. e. it'll make slightly lower lows in July or August. 

My target for the subwaves of Intermediate (4) are as follows:

Minor 1 ~820
Minor 2 ~860
Minor 3 ~680
Minor 4 ~740
Minor 5 ~634


After the market will have completed Intermediate (5) (and Primary A or 1)  we should see a nice retrace of the whole Primary A or 1 hopefully at least a 38% retrace.


The following chart shows how I labeled the Minutes and Minuettes. Minute [i] down from the 930 high with a irregular flat in the Minuette (ii) position. An ABC (Zigzag) up to conclude Minute [ii] at 925. Then Minuette (i) of [iii] to 880 and (ii) to 897 (a perfect 38% retrace). (iii) of [iii] should have started in the last trading hour on Friday.
  














There is a possibility that the high at 930 was Intermediate (A) of Primary [B]. This won't give us such a bearish picture in the nearer future as my scenario above. The market is correcting in Intermediate (B) which should end between 780 and 820. Afterwards Intermediate (C) will unfold and make new highs in the summer.















There is also a little chance that we'll see new highs (>930) in the nearer future. But this bullish count is only valid as long as 875 holds.