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Market Recap: No 2 Consecutive Up Days for 3 Weeks

  TREND MOMENTUM COMMENT
Long-term 2 of 2 are BUY    
Intermediate 3 of 3 are BUY 3 of 5 are NEUTRAL SPY ST Model in BUY mode; Non-Stop in BUY mode.
Short-term Model is BUY 6 of 6 are NEUTRAL The trend is up, I hold tiny long position over the weekend.
GANN DAY MOON:SOLAR CYCLE CONCLUSION
10/10-10/11 10/07 : 10/08 10/11 Next pivot date: 10/05 - 10/11

BULLISH 0.1.1 SPX Intermediate-term Trading Signals: Head and Shoulders Bottom breakout, target 1242.
09/27 Market Recap: 9 POMO within 20 trading days means 14%+ up in 3 months.
10/01 Market Recap: Positive September plus mid-term election means 11%+ up to year end.
10/05 Market Recap: 16 more trading days upswing? See 10/07 Market Recap, I have doubt now.
1.2.0 INDU Leads Market: mini SPX target 1173.
BEARISH 1.0.6 SPY Unfilled Gaps: 19 unfilled gaps, the max is 19.
09/23 Market Recap: SPX down 3 days means 79% chances to close below 09/23 close in 10 days. Failed!
09/27 Market Recap: AAPL is now too stretched.
10/01 Market Recap: AAII bull ratio (4-week average) too bullish.
10/01 Market Recap: Commercial (smart money) short Nasdaq 100 heavily according to COT Report.
6.3.1b Major Accumulation Day Watch: 2 consecutive down days after MAD was a bad sign.
6.4.3a SPY Bearish Reversal Day Watch: Bearish Reversal Day, pullback?
*10/08 Market Recap: Up off-season usually means down earning season.
*6.1.9a Extreme ISEE Index Readings Watch: SPX will close below 1165 within 2 days?

SPY
SETUP
ENTRY
DATE
STOP
LOSS
INSTRUCTION: Mechanic signals, back test is HERE, signals are HERE.
TRADING PLATFORM: SSO/SDS, UPRO/SPXU
Non-Stop 09/07 L N/A Partial profits on 09/24.
ST Model 09/24 L Breakeven  

SHORT-TERM: NO 2 CONSECUTIVE UP DAYS FOR 3 WEEKS, UPTREND IS WEAKENING

In 10/07 Market Recap, I mentioned that all the recent huge up days (up more than 1.5%) simply had no follow-through thereafter. From another angle, the chart below compares what happened when uptrend was young vs old, apparently the current uptrend is weakening, a top of some kind could be approaching. Of course, to timing a top is very difficult, so again I don't mean you should short, just I feel it's not the right time to get too bullish.

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1.0.0 S&P 500 SPDRs (SPY 60 min), the negative divergence is simply too large which looks bearish too me, so we may see the price channel support being tested the next week.

SPY Negative Divergence
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INTERMEDIATE-TERM: BEARISH BIASED

Maintain the intermediate-term bearish view. Below are summaries of all the arguments I've been blah blah recently:

  1. As mentioned in 10/01 Market Recap, commercial (smart money) holds record high short positions against Nasdaq 100.
  2. As mentioned in 10/01 Market Recap, AAII bull ratio (4-week average) is way too bullish.
  3. As mentioned in 10/01 Market Recap, institution selling keeps increasing.
  4. As mentioned in 10/05 Market Recap, statistically, a strong off-season could mean a weaker earning season.

All the most recent charts supporting the above arguments are listed below for your reference. Among them the statistics chart about off season vs earning season is from Bespoke and Sentimentrader (I combined them together) while the Institutional Selling Actions char is from stocktiming.

COT NDX Commercial Hedger

AAII Bull Ratio and Rydex Asset Flow

Institutional Selling

S&P500 During Earnings Season

SEASONALITY: OCTOBER EXPIRATION MONAY WAS BULLISH, EXPIRATION DAY WAS BEARISH
According to Stock Trader's Almanac:

  1. Monday before October expiration, Dow up 24 of 29.
  2. October expiration day, Dow down 4 straight and 5 of last 6.

For October Seasonality chart please refer to 10/01 Market Recap.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE OTHER ETFS IN MY PUBLIC CHART LIST

  TREND COMMENT
QQQQ UP 4.1.1 Nasdaq 100 Index (Weekly): NDX to SPX ratio too high.
IWM UP  
CHINA    
EMERGING *UP 4.1.6 iShares MSCI Emerging Markets (EEM Weekly): EEM to SPX ratio too high.
CANADA UP TOADV MA(10) too high and has negative divergence.
BOND DOWN  
EURO UP Bearish Reversal Bar, pullback?
GOLD *UP Bearish Engulfing, pullback?
GDX *UP 4.3.1 Market Vectors Gold Miners (GDX Weekly): GDX to SPX ratio too high.
3.2.1 Market Vectors Gold Miners (GDX Daily): Bearish Engulfing, pullback?
OIL *UP Bearish Engulfing, pullback?
ENERGY UP  
FINANCIALS *UP 4.4.2 Financials Select Sector SPDR (XLF Weekly): Head and Shoulders Top in the forming?
3.4.0 Financials Select Sector SPDR (XLF Daily): Bearish Engulfing, pullback?
REITS UP 4.4.3 Real Estate iShares (IYR Weekly): Home builder is lagging.
3.4.1 Real Estate iShares (IYR Daily): Black bar, pullback?
MATERIALS UP  
  1. Please make sure you understand how to use the table above. The purpose of this report is to provide info so contradictory signals are always presented.
  2. Conclusions can be confirmed endlessly, but trading wise, you have to take actions at certain risk level as soon as you feel the confirmation is enough. There's no way for me to adapt to different risk levels therefore no specific buy/sell signals will be given in this report except the mechanical signals such as SPY ST Model.
  3. * = New update.
  4. Blue Text = Link to a chart in my public chart list.
  5. LA = Lateral Trend.

 

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