Emini weekly Globex chart has consecutive outside bars

Market Overview: Weekend Market Analysis

The SP500 Emini futures had a failed breakout above the top of its 4-week trading range last week, and a failed breakout below this week. Consecutive outside bars on the weekly Globex chart. The strong reversal up this week makes a successful breakout above the range more likely than a breakout below. The bulls would then look for a 200-point measured move up to 4,400.

The EURUSD Forex market reversed down this week after last week’s reversal up. It has stalled for 4 weeks at the top of its 10-month trading range, and it will probably not break out of the range for at least a couple more months.

EURUSD Forex market

The EURUSD weekly chart

• Last week was a big bull bar that traded below the low of the prior week, and closed above its high. It was therefore an outside up week.
• This week traded above last week’s high and reversed down. It closed with a small bear body.
• This week is a micro double top with the bear bar from 2 weeks ago.
• The micro double top, the small bear body, the location (back in the December to February trading range), and the reversals in each of the past 3 weeks increase the chance of next week being a 5^th sideways week.
• The 7-week bull channel is tight, so a reversal down will probably only last a week or two.
• Near the top of the 10-month trading range that began in August. Since most attempts to break out of a trading range fail, the current 2-month rally will probably continue to stall here.
• There is room to the top of the 10-month range, and the 7-week rally has been strong. The EURUSD might work a little higher over the next month, but the current leg up will probably not break above the January 6 top of the range.
• Traders will continue to look for reversals every 1- to 3-weeks.

S&P500 Emini futures

The Monthly Emini chart

• Strong bull trend for more than a year. If May is another bull bar, traders will continue to look for higher prices.
• Small bear body so far in May. The bear body is the 3^rd reversal down in the tight bull channel from the March 2020 low. If this month is a bear bar at the end of the month, there would then be a parabolic wedge top, which is a type of buy climax.
• Buy climaxes often attract profit takers. A big bear body in May would increase the chance of a pullback in June.
• A tight bull channel is a strong bull trend, and a sign that the bulls are eager to buy.
• The parabolic wedge top only has a 30% chance of immediately reversing into a bear trend, without first transitioning into a trading range.
• Bulls therefore should buy the 1^st 2- to 3-month selloff. That limits the downside risk over the next several months.

The Weekly S&P500 Emini futures chart

• This week was a big bar, and it broke below last week’s low and the bottom of the 4-week tight trading range.
• It closed far above last week’s low, and it is therefore not a good candidate for the start of a correction.
• However, because it had a small bear body, it is a weak High 1 pullback buy signal bar for next week. There might be more sellers than buyers above its high.
• Small Pullback Bull Trends, like the past year, rarely last more than 60 bars before transitioning into a trading range. There is currently a 60% chance that the weekly chart will evolve into a trading range this summer.
• The conversion requires a reversal. When a buy climax reverses, the correction usually lasts longer and falls deeper than any earlier correction in the trend.
• The biggest correction during this rally was the 10% selloff in September and October.
• Therefore, once a correction begins, the selloff should be more than 10%, and last more than a couple months.
• Institutions say that a 10% selloff is a correction, and a 20% selloff is a bear market.
• There is a 40% chance that once there is a correction, it will continue down to 20%.
• It is important to note that there is no top yet. Traders continue to buy, expecting at least slightly higher prices.

Weekly Globex chart has OO setup

• On the weekly Globex chart (chart on right) this week’s high was above last week’s high, and this week’s low was below last week’s low. It therefore is an outside bar.
• The week before was an outside up bar.
• Consecutive outside bars is an OO pattern (outside-outside). It is a Breakout Mode pattern.
• Traders will theoretically look to sell below this week’s low, and buy above this week’s high. This is true even if the breakout comes several weeks from now.
• Many traders will not actually sell below or buy above, because the bar is big, and therefore the risk is big.
• However, once either signal triggers, traders will tend to look for trades in that direction on the daily and 60-minute charts.
• If one signal triggers but the Emini then reverses and triggers the opposite signal, some traders will reverse.
• The day session weekly chart (on the left) is almost an OO pattern. The more a market does something that resembles a pattern, the more it will behave as if the pattern actually formed.
• I am showing the weekly Globex chart to illustrate the OO pattern. Traders can see that the day session’s weekly chart is very similar.
• Therefore, traders will be bearish if there is a breakout below this week’s low.
• Also, they will be bullish if there is a breakout above this week’s high on the weekly Globex chart, or the high of 2 weeks ago on the weekly chart of the day (which is slightly above this week’s high).
• Finally, a breakout of a Breakout Mode Pattern has about a 50% chance of failing and then reversing. Therefore, traders will watch for a possible reversal trade after the breakout.

The Daily S&P500 Emini futures chart

• Last Friday broke above the 4-week trading range, but the breakout failed.
• This week broke below the bottom of the range, and the bear breakout failed as well.
• A failed bear breakout after a failed bull breakout increases the chance a successful bull breakout.
• Remember the OO on the weekly chart. It is simply a reflection of the repeated reversals on the daily chart.
• If the daily chart breaks above the trading range, which is now more likely than not, the breakout would trigger an OO buy signal on the weekly chart.
• Traders would then look for a 200-point measured move up to above 4,400 instead of a 200-point measured move down.
• Even though the daily and weekly charts are in Breakout Mode, which is approximately a 50-50 market, this week’s strong reversal up from a failed bear breakout makes a bull breakout more likely.

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