AAPL revised their revenue forecast and will drag the S&P500 down with it. SPX should start leg 5 (subwave of a larger wave 3) down in earnest tomorrow. This morning (1/2/2019) started down but the bulls were able to fight off the bears for one more day and converted the pattern to a continuation of the abc corrective wave. The bulls were unable to push the SPX over 2527, so our Elliott Wave count is still intact.
Lower target for wave 5 of the larger 3 is somewhat conservative. It certainly could go lower. This subwave 5 down should complete over the next day and a half. If the Fed Chairman Powell throws the market a bone when he speaks on Friday morning, we'll probably see the relief rally back up for the larger Wave 4. That might be a good time to go long for a little while as the SPX could climb as high as 2580 before our next leg down to complete this initial larger degree A-B-C correction.
Lower target for wave 5 of the larger 3 is somewhat conservative. It certainly could go lower. This subwave 5 down should complete over the next day and a half. If the Fed Chairman Powell throws the market a bone when he speaks on Friday morning, we'll probably see the relief rally back up for the larger Wave 4. That might be a good time to go long for a little while as the SPX could climb as high as 2580 before our next leg down to complete this initial larger degree A-B-C correction.
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Zoom in on last 2 trading days.
Toward the end of trading on 1/3 I closed my shorts because SPX did not fall nearly as hard as I had expected, and I did not want to hold these positions on Friday knowing Powell was expected to speak that day. There was no way that he was going to say that in the face off all the concern about the economy that rates were guaranteed to go up this year, so the markets were clearly going to interpret just about anything he said as positive (they all want interest free money...pining the days of quantitative easing). The ending 5th wave diagonal was confirmation that we could expect a significant move up today, 1/4/2019.
Today, I opened a new short position after the NASDAQ had risen over 4%. As the NASDAQ cleared 4% gain on the day, it and the other indexes were entering a 5th wave diagonal. I expect Monday, 1/7/2019, SPX should drop before we get a move up that should top out somewhere shy of 2580 (2560 to 2580). Then, we should start wave 5 down. I'm looking for this wave to move to between 2330 and 2280. Perhaps this will coincide with possible breakdown of the recently announced trade talks with China scheduled for early next week.