Happy Friday folks, rise and shine! Looking like a kinda flat open. OPEX maybe? The last thing you want to see if you're bullish is a green open.
I had a little time this morning to try to get an objective read on things at a high level so thought I'd share. SPY and AAPL charts below since that is the best indicator of the overall 'market'. IWM is broken. QQQ is right at a critical level around 360. If SPY (& AAPL) fall apart, IWM/QQQ will go lower but will likely outperform and bounce back the fastest and hardest.
For SPY/AAPL, seems to be around 3 plausible scenarios about to play out over the coming days/weeks:
1 - one final flush here today to SPY 440-442, AAPL 160-162 and we move on (best case for bulls that I'd say is least likely if I'm guessing
2 - a bit more downside SPY 423-434 ish, AAPL 150-155 ish
3 - a good correction and longer term mean reversion w/ some good back tests. SPY 400, AAPL 145 or under. Bigger picture over the next couple of years, this would probably be the best thing to happen. 15-20% correction that is overdue. Lots and lots of technical confluence around here.
If you zoom out, 3 (or at least 2) makes the most sense and keeps the long term bull in tact. Don't see it happening, but lose all those levels, and real panic would cause a real bear market type scenario with with SPY down in the low to mid 300s and AAPL closing that huge gap back <100. I just don't see it happening because the FED would almost certainly come to the rescue and kick it back to QE pronto. SPY 400 would likely do enough for them to switch from hawkish to dovish. I realize a lot of economic fundamentalists would disagree, but that is the current reality and likely outcome. Keep in mind this is a key midterm election year as well. So 15-20% correction by summer, FED backs off, back up we go just in time for 'voting' season?!?!?
Here's SPY and AAPL (daily over the past year or so, log scale, major levels and gap days noted, 8EMA/21EMA/50SMA/200SMA noted, some long term trend lines as well. Busier charts than I like but key info. One thing I started doing was marking upcoming OPEX dates and bolding quarterly ones. This really helps if you are hedging or trading options. Always pay attention to where those dates cross key support/resistance levels.
SPY
AAPL
If this post is on the B&I forum, lighten up it's just money!
Disclaimer: I'm not that smart.