SPX: More Exciting Than a Shoe Full of Spiders

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"Annoying and boring." -- Siskel and Ebert

"An insufferable sideways grind."  -- The Wall Street Journal

"Is this thing even on?" -- Mike Tyson, just before punching a hole in his screen

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So, yeah.  Still not a lot to add here.  The market has traded sideways since the last update, and possibly since the dawn of time.  Here's the updated SPX chart:

Er... wait a second.  I think that's last week's chart.

Yeah, it is, sorry.  HERE'S the updated SPX chart:

As we can see on the chart above... hang on, that's the wrong time scale.  I didn't mean to use an hourly chart.

Okay, here:

And there we have it!  In conclusion, there's still nothing to add and, at the market's current pace, there may never be anything to add ever again.  Trade safe. 

SPX Update: Nothing Lasts Forever... or Does It?

Still no change to the intermediate charts (I know, this is surprising after a year in a trading range!), so I'm not going to publish them today, and we'll just focus on the near-term chart:

Even on the near-term chart, there's nothing to add to the past two updates, so I simply reiterated them.  This is just kind of where we are with this market right now.  Don't blame me, I'm just the messenger.  Trade safe.

SPX and NYA: Sorry, I Ran Out of Titles Six Months Ago

Last update discussed that SPX and NYA had both reached support, and both markets proceeded to form sizeable bounces from that support.  I want to say that puts us in trickier territory, but the reality is, this market has been stuck in a trading range for a year.  So it's all tricky territory lately, and don't let any temptation toward complacency (in either direction) convince you otherwise.

Year-long trading ranges are the type of thing that could give Freddy Kruger himself nightmares.

There's no change to either NYA or SPX at the intermediate level.

Near-term, I outlined a bear case (the bull case is obvious and was already discussed last update):

In conclusion, so far, the market has bounced twice at major support.  As noted several times previously, bears still need to break that to get anything going.  On the flip side, bulls have yet to claim the next key resistance levels, so they can't claim victory yet, either.  And on another note, if you've survived this year-long trading range without blowing up your account entirely, pat yourself on the back.  When the market treads water, often the best we can hope for is to do the same.  Trade safe.

SPX and NYA: Back to the Scene of the Crime

In the prior update, I wrote:

NYA is interesting, because, unlike SPX, it did not make a new high, instead making a slightly lower low. This suggests that these markets need at least a little more downside

That read came through, and the markets delivered more downside -- in fact, both SPX and NYA declined right to their downside inflection zones (even though anyone not well-versed in Elliott Wave probably thought my placement of the red horizontal line seemed arbitrary!):

SPX also tested/is testing its important trend line:

These are important tests, and bears need to come through, since we can see on the near-term SPX chart that the decline has taken the form of three waves so far:

In conclusion, last update thought the pattern begged more downside and that happened -- now the market has reached support, so bears need to keep pushing and break that support.  If they can't, then Red 2 (second chart) will stay on the table.  Trade safe.

SPX and NYA: Moment of Truth

Since last update, SPX effectively retested its prior swing high and was strongly rejected.  This is the moment of truth for blue 2:

NYA is interesting, because, unlike SPX, it did not make a new high, instead making a slightly lower low.  This suggests that these markets need at least a little more downside, as NYA's current decline would be expected to at least reach parity with its prior little leg down (from 15710 to 15201), which would mean it (most likely, these are never 100%) needs to make its way down to 15110-20 at the minimum.  Note the red horizontal is now potentially a key overlap:

Today is, of course, a Fed day, which means Powell needs to decide whether to let inflation run amok or whether to continue trying to convince the market that it's being stupid and that (to quote a Fed interoffice memorandum) The Fed is Really Serious About Taming Inflation This Time, We Mean It (for Realz Y'all!) So Bulls Should Quit Acting Like Everything is Going Back to "Normal" Tomorrow Because It's Not.  

Either way, things could get interesting soon.  Trade safe.

SPX and NYA Updates

On Friday, SPX's 4169 high was broken, showing that it was a b-wave high:

NYA has not yet broken its corresponding high:

And no change to the big picture yet:

Thus, still no change to the zones we've been watching.  As noted on Friday:

bears still need to whipsaw the intermediate red line to be in better shape, while bulls still need to sustain a breakout over 4195 to help their cause.

Trade safe. 

SPX and NYA Updates

Last update's near-term wave count proved correct, as SPX followed the iii and iv labels quite well, but the 4020-25 "big question mark" v proved to be a bit overambitious (hence the big question mark) and, while SPX did form a fifth wave down, it found support at the red trend line we've been watching forever:

Near-term, if the bounce is corrective to the decline from 4169, then it will need to hit some resistance soon -- but as noted back on the April 19, it's quite possible that the 4169 high was a b-wave, and if that's case, SPX will probably exceed it.  So we're in unclear territory at the moment.

Not much to add regarding NYA:

In conclusion, bears still need to whipsaw the intermediate red line to be in better shape, while bulls still need to sustain a breakout over 4195 to help their cause.  Between those two zones is a lot of noise.  Trade safe.