Thank You, Central Banks …

… for stealing our money and ruining the economy worldwide.

This smaller bubble (still one more final high to go in 2021) is about to pop and we’re going to see the Fed “without any clothes,” so to speak. So many signals are pointing to a top here.

When I took a look at the charts of the US indices on Friday night, it was obvious we were tracing out a small ending diagonal. This is a terminal pattern. Once it hits a new high, it will turn to the downside in a dramatic fashion.

Everything I see is pointing to an impending turn. We even had some sort of news conference with Trump and the gang talking about how wonderful they are and how the market was doing so well … (a sign of extreme bullishness …)

The market is “all over the news” … another sure sign a top is in progress.

Arch Crawford put out a little Facebook post saying Trump’s astrological chart isn’t looking very good for Jan. 8 – 16 … another sign of impending volatility.

I’m looking at this coming Monday or Tuesday for a turn. But it’s tricked us before, so maybe it can somehow last a little longer. I personally doubt it, but we’ll see what Monday morning looks like.

We may even end up getting gold and silver to a new high for the same turn; gold is very close to its target this weekend, but silver has a little more to go …

Then there’s the Fed’s liquidity problem, with another round starting on Monday, as per this article.

“The market does the most predictable thing, in the most unpredictable manner.”

Here’s the latest market sentiment level from the CNN fear and greed index:

Sentiment this week actually hit 97, which is the highest level I’ve ever seen on this index. That signifies that everyone’s pretty much “in” the market and feeling very good about they money they’ve made — an excellent foreshadowing of a top. It’s back down to 93 this weekend, but that’s still exceptionally high.

This weekend, we’re even closer than last weekend. We actually have ending diagonals formed in NYSE, SP500, SPY, and the Russell 3000.

As I’ve said continuously, I expect almost all asset classes to turn at about the same time. If that happens, we’re likely going to get what will be referred to as a “flash crash.” Everything is going to drop in tandem and that can only mean it will be a spectacular show.

Again, we’ve never seen anything like this set-up before (at the top of a market), but as an expanded flat in most US indices, it should follow the prescribed pattern … with a dramatic wave down to under 2100 for ES/SPX.

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AAPL

Above is the 3 day chart of the AAPL (Apple). It’s clearly at the top of the third wave of an ending diagonal. There are a lot of these patterns showing up in the market right now, at various degrees of trend.

This particular one tells me that we’re going to see an imminent turn down in a fourth wave that targets the lower trendline. It will come down in three waves. That will leave one more wave up to a final high (the fifth wave), which I would expect to top in early 2021.

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US Market Snapshot (based on end-of-week wave structure)

This chart is posted to provide a prediction of future market direction. DO NOT trade based upon the information presented here (certainly NOT from a daily chart).

Above is the daily chart of ES (click to enlarge, as with any of my charts).

A little more patience is needed, but not very much. I'm seeing ending diagonals in most of the major US indices. Ending diagonals are final wave patterns and these ones are on a 10 minute chart; we're in the final fifth wave.

Later this week, the indices again did what they so often do: They dropped down while other asset classes shortened their paths to their ultimate targets. While gold and silver were lagging the rest, now virtually everything I cover is within a day or two of targets. You never know what additional shenanigans the market has up its sleeve (we've seen a lot of them over the past couple of months), but I can see how we can last the week.

On top of all this, of course, we have major liquidity issues around the US Dollar (as per the article at the top of the blog post).

This weekend, we're sitting with everything very close to a final top in wave count and measurements.  On top of that, we have ending diagonals formed in most of the US indices. The turn is nigh (DAX may have already topped, but with a large gap down from the top, it's impossible to say for sure).

The overall pattern across all US indices now is a flat. That strongly suggests we're going to see a 5 wave pattern to the downside under the 2100 level, as I've been predicting.

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There is an option of a set of zigzags down to the same level, but it's much less probable because there are so many flats set up across multiple stocks and indices. If a zigzag is the pattern that traces out, the retraces up will not be as strong as they would be with the C wave of a flat. We'll get a lot of information about the probable path from the first wave down.

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Summary: The current B wave up is most probably the B wave of an expanded flat. The A wave ended on Jan. 26, 2018. The B wave up will end in a set of corrective subwaves. A trend change is imminent.

We're at the top this weekend of a final fifth of fifth subwave. This week is set up for a turn due to measurements, and wave structure. There are large liquidity issues for the US Dollar which should increase as we move into the New Year.

Look for the ultimate bottom to be somewhere under 2100 in ES.

Once we've completed the fourth wave down, we'll have a long climb to a final slight new high in a fifth wave of this 500 year cycle top.

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