Sunday, January 10, 2016

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


The Double Top Fulfillment and Temporary Bottom

Friday’s session was just a consolidation for most of the day then it had a bear train continuation around the close. In the morning, the bulls tried to break above the 1HR 50SMA but it was immediately rejected by the bear train once again - similar to Tuesday’s formation. In the afternoon, ES made it back to overnight lows and it had a standard 1HR 20EMA bear train setup. When the overnight lows broke decisively, it flooded towards the 1915 close that we expected from the intraday update. This was an accelerated 1HR 8EMA bear train into the close, this could setup the capitulation bottom for early next week.

What’s next?
Daily closed at 1913.25, the bear acceleration phase is doing great and price is entering towards a major support area at the 1892-1900. Remember the 100% measure move from the double top targets 1891.75. The 1915 intermediate target is fulfilled and remaining targets at 1900 and 1891.75 are transitioned into immediate targets.

This is a bear train until price proves otherwise. However, we are expecting a temporary bottom early next week (Monday-Tuesday) because the hourly extreme oversold signal “A+ Tier” setup is close to completing. This means that a 40-50 deadcat bounce may be in the works that could extend higher. This only remains valid if 1892-1900 holds decisively on the first try as there’s no major support until 1880. Long story short, this means that we are looking for a bottom from 1892-1900 for 40-50 points worth of deadcat bounce at this moment.
If bulls are unable to defend the 1892-1900 major support area, then next major supports are located at 1880, 1865, 1850 and 1831.

Weekly chart perspective: Large perfect bear candle closing decisively below 100SMA, if current bear train exceeds 1860 then a larger breakdown setup is forming.

Monthly chart perspective: The ‘hold half and go’ monthly candle setup from October is no longer valid at this time unless a massive sticksave happens next week.

P.S. Know your timeframes in this upcoming week as there could be a major buying opportunity for the temporary bottom/bear train extension.