TEMPORARY TOP
In my opinion the top of the up leg from the November lows is in place.
We will have the absolute confirmation when price establishes a lower high.
Below I show you the SPX weekly momentum indicators where we can see that the RSI has breached the trend line support in force since the November 16 low.
The next intermediate buy signal usually should occur when the RSI and the Stochastic retest the 50 line.
I rule out a major reversal, instead I maintain the scenario of a retracement of the advance from the November lows.
As I discussed last Friday the major reasons that suggest that price has not established a major top are:
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The up leg from the November lows has unfolded a corrective 7-wave structure ===> A corrective EWP cannot establish a major Top.
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The current pullback is also unfolding a corrective pattern ===> The intermediate trend remains up.
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Retails investors are extremely bearish (I have never seen a major top with an extremely low AAII Bull ratio)
Regarding the potential target, at the moment, since we are in the initial stage of a corrective pattern I can only say that price should establish a bottom in the range 1485 - 200 dma. (which today stands at 1453)
Once a lower high is in place the next down leg should aim at the 0.382 R = 1500, where probably a large rebound will take place. If bears maintain the sequence of lower high/lows then the following down leg will reach the target box.
Therefore I reiterate that the above "road map" looks very probable as long as the bounce, which began last Friday, establishes a lower high.
Regarding the long-term count I maintain the Triple Zig Zag wave (X) scenario. As I have discussed in previous weekly updates since the assumed wave (Z), which began at the November 2012 low is not impulsive I am suggesting that it should unfold an Ending Diagonal, if this is the case on April 11 price has completed the wave (I).
The summation Index, which, peaked at the end of January is already oversold (RSI has crossed the 30 line) and on Friday it has breached the 200 dma. It is remarkable that SPX has been able to establish higher highs with such a weak breadth performance.
Going forward since price has just began a corrective phase an already oversold Summation Index should prevent a major decline.
Lets move on to the current price action.
It is reasonable to expect that the rebound from last Thursday lod to reach the target box delimited between the 20 dma = 1564 and the 0,618 retracement = 1574.
If it tops at the 20 dma the 1x1 extension target for the following down leg would take us to the 0.382 retracement of the advance from the November lows at 1500.
EW wise price would be unfolding a Zig Zag therefore if lower prices were in the cards probably this initial Zig Zag would morph into a Double Zig Zag
Lastly VIX on Friday has "issued a Bollinger Band buy equity signal". Friday's drop has been larger than I initially thought moving back below the 200 dma. I still expect a bottom in the range of the moving averages (10-20-50) or in the worst-case scenario at the rising trend line support in force since the March 14 low. The lower is the retracement the larger will be the assumed SPX wave (B) rebound.
I still think that the pattern that VIX is unfolding does not suggest a major move to the upside but as long as the sequence of higher lows/highs is maintained the trend remains up.
