$ES: Bulls Pushed to the 4,385 target. Can They Test 4,440 Next?

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  • June 12, 2023
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Yesterday I noted that a wave count of NQ-mini futures argues for another rally

That made me come up with a bullish wave count for ES-mini futures that allowed bulls to push to 4,385:

ES-mini, a tick bar chart updated on June 12, 2023

Now let’s zoom-out to a 240 min chart before we dive deeper and review a micro structure of that rally on Monday:

ES-mini, 240 min chart

Let’s measure the previous large decline that lasted about four weeks from mid Feb’23 to mid Mar’23 (labelled as -y- of (y) down) and add negative extensions, potential strong resistance levels that may stop this rally. We get two main resistance levels:

  • the level 1 is a negative 123.6% ext = 4,384.50. That level got hit today!
  • the level 2 is a negative 138.2% ext = 4,443.25.

When price hits a macro target the main question becomes whether we can count full micro waves inside the very last push higher labelled -c- of (y) (se a wave count inside the blue rectangle on the chart below).

ES-mini 240 min chart

Even though we can count five micro waves inside the blue rectangle we have a problem with that count because the micro wave iii up stopped at 100% ext and the wave v up stopped at 138.2% ext.

The most conservative criteria for a wave iii up is hitting a 138.2% ext of a micro wave i up.

Therefore, we can come up with a more bullish wave count. It is possible to count the high made today as the top of a micro wave iii up:

ES-mini 240 min chart

That micro count argues for a pullback in a micro wave iii up followed by an a-b-c down consolidation in a micro wave iv down followed by the final rally in a micro wave v up targeting a very strong confluence of fibs at 4,440sh.

Note that 4,383 is a 61.8% retracement of the whole decline off the Jan 22 top. Millions of trades watch that 61.8% retracement level but this is probably why that level is not important anymore.

Take a note that a 66.7% retracement fib (4,447) is a much stronger and more important retracement fib. I call that level the last line of bears’ defense. A 66.7% retracement of a decline is a red line that divides a strong corrective pullback from a new impulsive leg up targeting a new higher high.

In addition, a negative 138.2% ext also points to 4,443. The negative 138.2% ext is a typical target for the second leg up (wave c) in corrective a-b-c structures.

Coming back to that micro count of five waves up inside the final leg up of a subwave -c- of wave (y), today ES has hit a 138.2% ext of a micro wave i up, an acceptable target for a micro wave iii up.

If bears manage to stop that rally here, then produce a corrective a-b-c consolidation in a micro wave iv down that would be a long setup to ride another push higher in a micro wave v up targeting a 176.4% ext of a micro wave i up = 4,452.

The invalidation level that has to be broken by bears to confirm that bullish path is 4,218, a low of a subwave b down of a wave iii up.

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