Tuesday, May 17, 2011

05.17.2011 Update Not quite done?

Today we appeared to smack right down on the trendline, actually straight to the bottom of my target zone at 1320 and then bounced up. It is still following the projected path pretty well.

I want to point out though, this is a dangerous area where you are doing nothing but gambling on a direction if you play it.

I do though think that we will test the trendline one more time. That's going to be the make or break in the short term for this market. If it holds, there's a very high probability that all the dip buyers load in and we are going to new highs. (for what I think will be the last time we see new 52 week highs in a very long time) If it doesn't hold, we will have to re-evaluate longer term Elliot Wave counts and determine what is highest probability path.

I've updated the chart i've had running for the last couple weeks;



The market appeared weaker than it really was today. We had HPQ weighing on the Industrials, but the S&P 500 was never down more than 7 or 8 points, I think it touched down 9 points for a millisecond as we BARELY peaked below the trendline. The financials of all things seem to hold up the fort today. JP Morgan up 2%, Wells Fargo up 3%, US Bank up 2%, Bank of America and Citigroup did their standard barely move as they just slosh around in Zombie nobody will admit they are insolvent land.

Going forward here, I suspect we will have a small bounce and drag in some BTDer's, then head back to the trendline for the ultimate test. At this time, I expect it to hold and for new highs to come over the next couple months. But really, the rest of this week is sort of a wildcard, we could go either way with a lot of economic data deteriorating.

GL

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