FOR TUESDAY: (4/18) While the markets went to the edges in terms of bounce and retracement, the writing on the wall suggests higher dollars into Thursday and it won’t take much to pull stocks up. Basically the market is rebalancing last week’s conditions and waiting on news. Our sense is that cycles into Friday-Tuesday of next week support battle conditions and guns will go off. We don’t see nuclear war but cycles are hitting the US and Trump very exactly that he will be aggressive. I suspect even though we want to dump our positions from last week, we may have to get back into them on Thursday.Continue reading

FOR MONDAY: (4/17) Markets are closed on Friday but economic cycles continue to come out. Fear cycles are still strong into Tuesday so we suspect that whatever happens over the weekend, it won’t be roses and lollypops. Sometimes extreme moves on Sunday night have no place to go by early Monday and if we get huge gaps on Sunday, you have to expect that is possible. Still, the market may be in trouble into Tuesday and maybe much of next week. We’ll put out an update on Sunday night if geo-political bombings and war cycles create too much potential energy but hopefully we can enjoy our holiday weekend and you can also. Three-day weekends are difficult to trade under normal circumstances so be careful out there.Continue reading

FOR THURSDAY: (4/13) World political and tension cycles are still strong into Thursday and saber-rattling is escalating with China on the border and the North Korean President having a press conference at 6:20 am to demonstrate something. Who wants to be long dollars in this scenario? We looked at next week and gold continues to look higher and the dollar low and next week cycle lows for crude dominate and stocks should mostly be lower much of the week. We have to assume that the trends will continue and nothing will be resolved over the long holiday weekend.Continue reading

FOR WEDNESDAY: (4/12) World political and tension cycles are still strong into Wednesday and Wednesday night but may lift late in the week. We looked at cycles for North Korea and its President and he could easily not survive world pressures from China and the US this summer but there’s a lot of time until then. Usually these situations get worse before they get better so expect that the trade will stay on edge on Wednesday. Anxiety cycles and military reckless cycles continue into April 23 so if anything, things will heat up.Continue reading

FOR MONDAY: (4/10) These weekend breaks with saber-rattling are a bit unnerving, as Russia sends ships to the area and rhetoric flies. Cycles into April 13-14 do have more war/aggressive energy than the following week so getting through this week will be important but an underlying peace cycle may prevent anything series through late May. We have always worried more about war and violence July and August and that may be the more serious time period. Despite a decent finish on Friday, stocks look mostly lower into Wednesday of next week and it would not take much to trigger a weekly chart top, although we think NQ still could do a divergent high in May. The dollar should top out by Friday and be lower next week and gold and silver look lower next week and also T-notes which finally looked like they put in a reversal. These big-event days with extended ranges usually turn into key points for the month. If the news is volatile over the weekend, we will put out an update on Sunday night if we can but usually it’s too difficult to tell until Europe opens in the Middle of the night.

JUNE E-MINI S & P 500
SWING TRADING RECOMMENDATION: Sell June e-mini S & P at 2359 and 2364 with a 2368.50 stop.

S&P ANALYSIS FOR MONDAY: (4/10) We moved stops to breakeven and got stopped but had suggested partial profits a number of times and the market never took out our original stop into the close. We have a bias for lower prices into Wednesday, but won’t rule out going to 2364-2366 on Sunday night if there is some calm and sanity in the world. The failure to break 2340 on a closing basis didn’t confirm a weekly chart top and even if we get to projections to 2325 or 2318 quickly, we could recover in a congested manner. We do want to get short but may not get the chance.

OVERALL: We favor a fall to 2318 with a first cycle low into April 12 to complete a 3-3-5 pattern. Because cycles are volatile into Sunday and news continues to be on the edge, you have to favor shorts but will put out orders higher if we can get.

BIG PICTURE: The week before tax returns is often bearish and some sell stocks to pay for taxes and seasonals seem lower before taxes are due. We have a bias for lower prices next week and if the market remains congestive and cannot drop, then they may take the market up into next Friday.

LONGER TERM: (3/27) Still can’t officially say we have a weekly chart sell signal until 2300 comes out on a closing basis. It may be a while before we know if a weekly chart top is in. Expecting a May high and a new NQ high unless NQ takes out 5200–and if that’s the case, we’ll get a divergent S & P high to maybe 2420. Expecting that 2050 is possible into October for a 15% correction and cycle low and if the market closes under 2300, we would see 2200. Too early in the game to get too beared up but you can favor shorts into the week of April 2-6 and watch pattern completions. Still have to pick your spots carefully.

CYCLES OVERVIEW: Lower into April 12; higher into April 14.