a weekly price action market recap and outlook - dax
Good morning and i hope you are well.
This week bulls took over again and nasdaq e-mini futures printed a new all time high. After last Thursday and Friday, which gave good looking buy signals, this weeks follow through was expected. As mentioned during the week, i don’t expect much higher prices and that we will form a top here before we trade down over the next months. That does not mean, that markets can’t make higher highs. I just think the probability of that is low. That’s why i started taking longer term short positions in dax and nasdaq, to which i will add higher and take profits when appropriate.
dax
Quote from last weeks outlook:
Let’s talk bull case first: Bears could not produce lower prices or big consecutive bear days below the 20ema. Bear channel held and bulls just bough everything under 16700. Bears tried 3 times and now they will probably give up to short higher again. Thursday and Friday printed consecutive bull bars and it’s a buy signal. They want a retest of the ath or at least trade back to upper channel lines.
Market did exactly that and we even broke above the bear trend line. I still think this is a trading range and two legged moves are common. We might retest the previous January high at 17123 and depending of the strength of that, could also retest the ath but i highly doubt we can break it. Highest odds for me are that this is a lower high and i just have to adjust the bear trend line. For next week i expect a weaker overall (if earnings do not surprise upwards big time) market and bears trying to print lower lows. If the bears are strong, we could trade back to the lower bear trend line at around 16200. Everything below would be a surprise, as well as prices above 17200.
outlook last week: “probably up“ → good outlook, was good for 300 points
short term: sideways to down
medium-long term: down - what would change that? two consecutive daily closes above 17300
This week bulls took over again and nasdaq e-mini futures printed a new all time high. After last Thursday and Friday, which gave good looking buy signals, this weeks follow through was expected. As mentioned during the week, i don’t expect much higher prices and that we will form a top here before we trade down over the next months. That does not mean, that markets can’t make higher highs. I just think the probability of that is low. That’s why i started taking longer term short positions in dax and nasdaq, to which i will add higher and take profits when appropriate.
dax
Quote from last weeks outlook:
Let’s talk bull case first: Bears could not produce lower prices or big consecutive bear days below the 20ema. Bear channel held and bulls just bough everything under 16700. Bears tried 3 times and now they will probably give up to short higher again. Thursday and Friday printed consecutive bull bars and it’s a buy signal. They want a retest of the ath or at least trade back to upper channel lines.
Market did exactly that and we even broke above the bear trend line. I still think this is a trading range and two legged moves are common. We might retest the previous January high at 17123 and depending of the strength of that, could also retest the ath but i highly doubt we can break it. Highest odds for me are that this is a lower high and i just have to adjust the bear trend line. For next week i expect a weaker overall (if earnings do not surprise upwards big time) market and bears trying to print lower lows. If the bears are strong, we could trade back to the lower bear trend line at around 16200. Everything below would be a surprise, as well as prices above 17200.
outlook last week: “probably up“ → good outlook, was good for 300 points
short term: sideways to down
medium-long term: down - what would change that? two consecutive daily closes above 17300