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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Charts

I prepared a couple charts last night after the close so I could load them quickly this morning. Usually I trade on one laptop and post on another. Today I'm doing this post from my trading laptop so that I can post these charts.

I had two scenarios. Overnight, it seems the market has chosen the top one. I include the lower one because of where the market closed yesterday, but it seems like it may be invalidated today.

I see the S&P rising as high as 1365.96 in a b-wave before rolling over and heading to 1327.95 for a Fibonacci 1:1 relationship. I could be a buyer there for a run to new highs over 1380.


This chart is part of the reason why I got flat yesterday afternoon. I saw the market stalling at a 38% retracement of the move from 1378.04 just as I was starting to feel sleepy (needed a nap because sometimes around the full moon, I don't sleep well). I did not want to tempt fate. Just a simple 1:1 Fib move would have targeted 1315.97.

The full moon was 4 hours ago as of this writing. Perhaps it pulled the market higher overnight. I would have thought it would have accentuated the current trend. Now I'm thinking it sort of did; it's telling us to get ready to buy because the trend is still up.

The last scenario is that 1340.03 WAS the buy. I hope not. I'd have to blame it on the moon

3 comments:

  1. First scenario makes the most sense but this market might go for the last one.. thanks for mapping all three out so clearly! k

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  2. Watching to see if $spx can even clear 1363.63.. the high from the 1340 down day. (maybe the correction of the year day! lol) k

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  3. thanks, and glad you liked the charts. i'll try to do them more often. stepping out 'til almost noon today and can't wait to see what the market gives us.

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