Wednesday, December 16, 2015

E-mini S&P 500 Futures: Keep It Simple Stupid Series


The Final Battle

Today’s session did not disappoint, the overnight session made a minor higher high riding the 1HR 8EMA bull train. At the day session open, the market provided a high probability short setup that was just below our predetermined important 2054 level from yesterday.  Subsequently, the market quickly rolled a few points to test the 2040 1HR 20EMA which was sticksaved and thus began the anticipated flatness shake from 12PM-2PM. Also, the 2017-2022 immediate bear target from last night had obviously failed as bears couldn’t deliver it by 12PM.

 The initial reaction to the 2PM Fed announcement was a spike down to the 1HR 50SMA support which was quickly sticksaved on the 1minute and  5min charts. Shortly after, the hourly candle closed above 2054 and revealed the winner and demolished the deadcat bounce thesis. Remember, from the weekend update the initial hourly extreme oversold “A+ Tier” signal gave us the 2054 target and in Monday’s report we stated that we are treating any bounce less than 2054 as a deadcat bounce. This was no longer the case as soon as the hourly candle closed and confirmed the immediate bullish sentiment.

What’s next?
Daily closed at 2060, this is above all the moving averages and on the very important 61.8% fib retracement.

Bears’ last chance is a needed hard rejection in this 61.8%-78.6% fib retracement area back to below the daily 100SMA at 2022. This is due to the fact that the weekly candle is trying to do a full retrace of last week’s perfect bear candle. Along with the context of the monthly chart’s October hold half and go upside setup that was sticksaved at the usual 20EMA on Monday.

A pullback is very likely for tomorrow’s session due to the first try at 61.8% fib along with hourly extreme overbought signal. The immediate targets are 2045 and 2038 for the pullback.

The most important support to note for this pullback is to hold the 2022 level as the intermediate roadmap is waiting to be confirmed for the targets of 2078, 2095 and 2105. Remember, the odds favour the bulls here based on the statistics of Santa Claus Rally since 1950. This is bulls fight to lose, not bears.