They’re Everywhere!

LIke lemmings, which multiply every three and a half years and end up eating themselves out of “house and home,” ending up drowing in the ocean as they search for more food, ending patterns are terminal. They end and the trend reverses.

In the case of ending diagonals, it’s a dramatic reversal. That’s just like what happens to the lemmings. The population dies en masse, but a few remain so that they can start the process all over again.

Lemmings are just like other herders — humans, who will no doubt be super-bullish as we reach new highs, something I believe will happen this week. Until then, the direction continues to be up.

Last week, I named the current topping process “The Last Waltz,” because I expected a protracted period of ups and downs to this current “B wave” in the NYSE-related indices. That’s given the fact that we’re in complex ending patterns in all the US indices.

If you were in the Chart Show this past week, you know exactly how things are going to play out, as some of these patterns were identified then. Now, they’ve spread throughout the other sub-indices.

Some of the indices have traced out almost all of an ending expanding diagonal and have one more wave left to go. Some have traced out a run-of-the-mill ending diagonal. There are subtle differences in these patterns, but the bottom line is that they will end with a dramatic turn down.

The Russell 2000 is the one that is sporting the regular ending diagonal. Here’s the chart:

Above is the two hour chart of IWM (the Russell 2000 small cap stocks).

The pattern is now a regular ending diagonal (an ending pattern). I’ve re-labelled the pattern to reflect this pattern, which will result in a final wave up to the trendline (slightly above in what we call a “throw-over”).

We’ll be looking for all the sub-indices of the NYSE to approach that high and turn down together …. sometime this week, hopefully.

What’s interesting to me is that we’re seeing ending patterns in all these NYSE sub-indices. Most are sporting ending diagonals of one type or another, which you can even see at the top of the third wave of the SP500 above (more of a megaphone, but still and ending pattern). The SP500 appears to have an ending expanding diagonal in progress. All of these patterns end with a final wave that approaches the upper trendline.

As I often say,

“Trade what you see, not what you think.”

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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).

We've been sitting at the top now for well over a month. This weekend, we're in the final leg of an ending expanding diagonal (this is an ending pattern).

All US indices require a new high. The market will not come down until they reach it. Until this happens, the direction is still up.

The next major move is to the downside.

I expect to be reviewing possible entries in the Chart Show this Wednesday.

While the NYSE is in a large 4th wave, ES and SPX are still topping out in a third wave. This non-confirmation between major indices near a top is very bearish.

The wave up from Dec. 26 in ES is clearly corrective and, as a result, must fully retrace to the downside. This is supported by the US Dollar Index, the major USD currency pairs, WTI Oil, along with DAX, TSX, and other international exchanges.

Summary: My preference is for a dramatic drop in a 4th wave to a new low. The culmination of this drop should mark the bottom of a large fourth wave in progress in the NYSE since January 29, 2018 - over a full year of Hell. It may be a dramatic drop that is quite fast; in any case, it will target the previous fourth wave area somewhere under 2100.

Once we've completed the fourth wave down, we'll have a long climb to a final new high in a fifth wave.

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