$ES: How Bears Can Push To the Macro Demand Zone Under 4,400

$ES #ES #trading setup #Daily #micro #Elliott Wave #trading strategy Yesterday in a macro update I posted that Daily chart of ES-mini futures: The rule is “upon completion of a five wave up structure the low made by a pullback in a wave (iv) down works both as a magnet for the first pullback and a strong … Read more

$ES: Macro Update: The 2023 Rally Looks Having Topped

$ES #ES-mini #trading setup #trading futures #Elliott Wave My primary macro scenario assumes that the rally off the 2009 low topped in Jan 2022: Then we should expect a large (A)-(B)-(C) down corrective move. The 2022 decline that bottomed in Oct 2022 can be counted as a wave (A) down and the rally that followed … Read more

$NQ – Bears Have A Great Short Setup for an Accelerated Drop

$NQ #NQ-mini #trading setup That slow grinding move up after close is exactly what I expected. At 2-30 PM I shared with subscribers of my Premium Chat room this micro path: And NQ dropped in a subwave -b- down into close following the path. Ad after close NQ-mini has been climbing higher in a subwave … Read more

$ES: Bears Are In Control and Setting the Stage for An Accelerated Decline

$ES #ES-mini #trading setup Yesterday I posted the bearish scenario: Today algos played the same tricky Expanded Flat structure we discussed yesterday with respect to NQ: The morning rally was a subwave c up in a corrective consolidation of wave (b) up. Upon completion of a corrective wave (b) up we expect the second leg … Read more

$NQ: Bulls Played the “Failed Breakdown” Long Setup

$NQ #NQ-mini #trading setup #ElliottWave Yesterday NQ started with a clean short setup for bears: I expected bears to produce a micro bounce in a wave ii up before an accelerated decline would start. However, acceleration started without a pullback: That lack of a pullback is always a red flag. Anyway that could be a … Read more

$ES: 4,506 is a Hard Stop for Bears

$ES #ES-mini #trading setup #Elliott Wave Yesterday ES-mini completed a corrective a-b-c up bounce and provided bears with a great short setup. My conclusion was: “That corrective a-b-c up bounce off the low made on Friday afternoon is a decent short setup.” Off the expected resistance 4,535 S-mini dropped 50 points. Here we have two … Read more

$ES: Will It Bounce off the Fresh Monthly Support?

#es-mini #trading setup #Elliott Wave #Monthly Opening Range #weekend update The Weekend Update Part I. ES-mini futures managed to close a day UNDER the monthly support for August: The trading range formed during the first three full trading days of a month should be considered the Month Opening Range. The lowest price traded during these … Read more

ES: Staring A New Leg Down As Expected

$ES #ES-mini futures #trading setup #Elliott Wave #Bearish Reversal Last Friday I shared this path that expected a pullback and subsequent bearish reversal: In that Friday update I explained that “almost every bearish reversal is shaped as Head and Shoulders pattern“. I shared expectations for upcoming bullish bounce that would stumble upon resistance 4,594-4,606. This is how that chart … Read more

$ES: Rallied as Expected to Complete the Right Shoulder of the Bearish Head and Shoulders Pattern

$ES #ES-mini #trading setup #Elliott Wave In the previous update I explained that “almost every bearish reversal is shaped as Head and Shoulders pattern“. I shared expectations for upcoming bullish bounce that would stumble upon resistance 4,594-4,606: This is how that chart looks like now: ES-mini 240 min chart ES rallied wildly and overshot the … Read more

$ES: Topped in the Red Box as Expected. What is the Macro Target for This Drop?

#ES $ES #trading setup #trading futures #Elliott Wave #day trading #swing trading Yesterday I warned you about upcoming top and reversal: “I count that rally as the final squiggle of a subwave -c- of wave -v- up.” The path I shared on Wednesday clearly explained that you had to expect a brutal bearish reversal: This … Read more

$NQ #NQ-mini #trading futures #trading setup #Elliott Wave NQ-mini keeps working on a corrective a-b-c up structure we correctly predicted in the  Sunday update: This is how that chart looks like now: You can clearly see a corrective a-b-c up structure behind that bounce. Now let’s zoom-in to a 15 min chart: The key resistance … Read more

$ES: The Rally Started off the Green Box. It is Approaching the Red Target Box

$ES #ES-mini #trading setup #ElliottWaves ES-mini keeps following the micro bullish path I shared with you yesterday: This is how that chart looks like now: That was a typical volatile and directionless FOMC day yesterday. First algos played a failed breakout pattern by pushing ES slightly over 4,608.75 previous high. But that spike up was … Read more

$ES: Until Bears Violate this Level Bulls May Push ES-mini One More Push Higher

$ES #ES-mini futures #trading setup #Elliott Wave That strong bounce created uncertainty as to whether ES made a major top. When a move up goes over a 66.7% retracement we can not longer confidently count that move up as a corrective bounce. More often than not deep pullbacks morph into new legs up that eventually … Read more

S&P: Macro Weekend Update: Bears Have A lot of Work To Do

$SPX #ES-mini #Elliott Wave #trading setup Off the May 2023 low ES-mini produced a clean five wave up structure. That five wave up structure looks 100% completed: At the very least upon completion of a five wave up rally we should expect a corrective a-b-c down structure to test the low made by the previous … Read more

$ES: Turned Down As Expected

$ES #ES-mini futures #trading setup #Elliott Wave In my previous update posted on Wednesday I explained why I thought ES-mini could top around 4,600. Yesterday ES-mini popped up to 4,609.25 and then turned down: Note that ES-mini has crossed under support of the blue trend line. The Daily support for Thursday is 4,545. We need … Read more