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- Wednesday higher.
- ES pivot 1927.00 Holding above is bullish.
- Rest of week bias uncertain technically.
- Monthly outlook: bias lower.
- Single stock trader: NYSE:VZ not a swing trade buy.
Recap
Last night, I noted a number of good reversal signs in the charts and called Tuesday lower. All it took was some more bad news from the Chinese to push the market back over the cliff and right back down again we went, retracing more than 50% of the two big days of gains we got last week. So once again, the picture has changed and we head to the charts as usual to see where Wednesday is headed as scary September gets off to a rocky start.
The technicals
The Dow: On Tuesday, the Dow tanked right out the gate and then was unable to make any sort of a comeback, ending near the day's lows. That tall red candle was enough to short-circuit the indicators, which have been rising, and send them back down towards oversold. The stochastic is also just about to execute a bearish crossover. And this move was also a bearish trigger on our last rising RTC. So with no support until 15,672, it's looking like a retest of last week's lows might not be out of the question. There's just nothing bullish at all about this chart tonight.
The VIX: Last night I wrote that the VIX "looks like it has more upside left for Tuesday." And indeed, the VIX took a 10 and a half percent pop to form a perfect gap-up spinning top. That's now two thirds of an evening star, but with the stochastic just forming a bullish crossover, it's too soon to call the VIX back lower yet, and it wouldn't surprise me to see more upside on Wednesday.
Market index futures: Tonight, all three futures are higher at 1:06 AM EDT, with ES up 1.15%. Like everything else, ES tanked on Tuesday, falling all the way back to 1931 on a tall red candle that exited its rising RTC for a bearish set up. It also formed a bearish stochastic crossover. However, the rest of the indicators are completely confused, with RSI and momentum rising but money flow falling. In any case, the overnight seems to be staging some sort of rally attempt, therefore it is impossible to call this chart lower again on Wednesday. At the moment, it's looking like a good bullish piercing pattern - but it's tough to call half-baked candles.
ES daily pivot: Tonight, the ES daily pivot dives again from 1972.08 to 1927.00. But that plunge plus a move higher overnight in ES now leaves it back above its new pivot, so this indicator turns bullish again.
Dollar index: Last night I said this chart look lower for Tuesday, and so it was, with the dollar falling 0.43% on a fat gap-down red spinning top that stopped just short of its 200-day MA at 63.93. And also like the other charts, it traded entirely outside its latest rising RTC for a bearish trigger. The indicators are now falling before even having reached overbought, so there's nothing bullish about this chart tonight, and it looks like it may go lower again on Wednesday.
Euro: Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the euro put in its usual mirror image of the dollar with a nice gain that just touched its own 200 day MA before falling back a bit to close at 1.1296. That also sent the indicators oversold for the first time in a month, and also curved the stochastic around just into position for a bullish crossover. With two white soldiers now in place, you'd think this would mean the euro's getting ready to mount another attack on its 200 MA. But with the overnight actually lower and in the form of a dark cloud cover, I'm not so sure. That makes this chart too tough to call for Wednesday.
Transportation: The trans got hammered on Tuesday, just like everything else, with a 2.14% drop that caused them to fall out of their rising RTC for a bearish trigger. That also sent the stochastic around just short of a bearish crossover, and with all the indicators now heading lower, there's nothing bullish about this chart for Wednesday.
All the charts are looking just dreadful tonight. However, with the VIX back above 30 again and some non-trivial moves higher this time in the futures, it looks like we're due for some retracement of Tuesday's big move, which looked overdone to me. Heck, most moves lately have been overdone, leading to the wild oscillations we're seeing as we retrace the retracements. So anyway, I'm going to go out on a limb and call Wednesday higher.
And finally, to quote Columbo, just one more thing. On Tuesday, technician Louise Yamada on CNBC said that declining momentum "is suggesting to me that we are looking at a bear market." She says that the SPX could test its uptrend at 1800. I think it's actually worse than that. I show the monthly rising RTC from 2009 currently at 1864 and that's not all that far away from where we are right now. In fact, if you go back to the 2012 rising trend, the SPX has already exited that one for a bearish set up. That's looking a lot to me like the bull market is dead.
Single Stock Trader
Last night I said that Verizon had more downside left on Tuesday, and it turns out that it, along with the rest of the Dow, took a dive, gapping down for a 2.4% loss on a red spinning top. That's a reversal warning, but not a great one, and with the lower BB not too far away at 44.19 and the stochastic still very elevated and just getting ready for a bearish crossover, the selling may not be over here yet.