5/23/2024 – Another negative day with the Dow Jones down 606 points (-1.53%) and the Nasdaq down 65 points (-0.39%)
Today’s market action was nearly ideal. As we theorized in the pre-market, we had a major gap up opening on the NDX/SPX, followed by a structurally sound failure.
Thus far, everything looks perfect. Particularly on the Dow Jones. As was discussed earlier, the NDX/SPX have pushed slightly above what we thought they would do, but both indices remain within their respective margin of error.
Now, today’s failure doesn’t yet confirm anything, but it is a step in the right direction.
We are now seeking further confirmations that the bounce top is in. As we have mentioned earlier, Monday’s top on the Dow works perfectly well and any further structurally sound sell-off going forward would confirm the same.
No other changes to our weekly or daily updates……
Let’s first review what had happened in March/April, where we are now and what we anticipate to happen next.
For months, and in the case of the Dow Jones, for 18 months, we have maintained the following price targets.
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- SPX: March 25th (+/- 2 trading days), PRICE Target 5,200 (+/- 100 points).
- Dow: March 25th (+/- 2 trading days), PRICE Target 40,000 (+/- 500 points)
- NDX: March 25th (+/- 2 trading days), PRICE Target 18,300 (+/- 200 points)
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On March 30th we issued the following short-term update (see last week’s update).
We believe we might see the final top on the Dow Jones in the first 60 minutes of trading on Monday (April 1st). Please check our Intraday update on Monday as we might reverse position from long to short at that juncture.
We did get a direct hit on the targets above and the market began to sell-off. Yet, as we have indicated at the time, the sell-off wasn’t structurally sound. The indices left behind a number of structural gap downs that suggested at the time we would get a bounce that would close them all.
This week all indices resolved their respective gaps lower and most primary indices pushed to slightly higher highs. Although, the Dow Futures remain below their April 1st high trigger.
Further, we are now sitting on top of a powerful May 17th (+/- 2 trading days) TIME turning point that should mark a top of this bounce.
So, what are we to make of all of the above?
Recent new all time highs on some of the indices complicate the technical picture a little bit, but not our Time/Price calculations or TIMING metrics. For the time being all indices remain at their targets and well within their respective margins of error. For the time being we have to assume this is a simple short-term double top formation.
Further, Monday’s high makes sense in terms of being the top of this bounce. If the market begins a structurally sound sell-off over the next few trading days, we would begin to get confirmation that the top of this bounce is indeed in. And once that happens we simply revert back to our original forecast.
Having said that, if the market begins to push higher once again, pushing above 40,300 on the Dow, we would begin to question our original forecast. In an attempt to figure out what is actually happening and why the market is not doing what it should. Until that happens, our forecast remains fully intact.
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