Trading Update: Friday August 9, 2024
S&P Emini pre-open market analysis
Emini daily chart
- The Emini formed a bull reversal bar, closing on its high after Wednesday’s low 1 Short. Yesterday was a strong reversal up, the odds favor sellers above yesterday’s high.
- Yesterday’s bull reversal bar is a sign of strong buying. The risk for the bulls is that there are sellers above, and today will be a bear reversal bar, trapping the bulls into buying high.
- The bulls are hopeful that the buying pressure is strong enough to lead to an upside breakout and test up to the 5,500-round number.
- However, the market may have to test down to near the 5,200 round number and bottom of Wednesday’s Low 1 sell signal bar.
- The buying pressure this week is disappointing for the bears and increases the odds of sideways trading.
- The odds favor a trading range on the daily chart and not a bear trend. This increases the risk of the market getting a deep pullback to near the 5,500-round number before the bears down to the 5,000-round number.
- Overall, traders should expect the market to continue to go sideways to up over the next couple of weeks.
Emini 5-minute chart and what to expect today
- Today has gone sideways within yesterday’s trading range for the first 12 bars of the day. This increases the odds that there will be a lot of trading range price action today.
- The first 12 bars of the day are inside an expanding triangle from yesterday. This means traders should be cautious and consider waiting for a clear breakout with follow-through, breaking out of the expanding triangle.
- Today is Friday, which means weekly support and resistance are important.
- Today has the potential to get a surprise breakout late in the day as traders decide on the close of the weekly chart.
- If today is going to become a strong trend day, there will be plenty of time to enter.
- Trends take several bars to form; when they form, they take many bars of sideways price action to reverse.
- Traders should assume that today will remain in a trading range for most of the day until there is a clear successful breakout.
- The bulls formed a rally up to the bar 20 high; however, they are still within the overall expanding triangle from yesterday.
- This increases the risk that the rally up to bar 20 will become a 2nd leg trap and test back down to bar 14 low (bottom of the 2nd leg).
- The bulls want the pullback from bar 20 to stabilize and create a 2nd entry buy.
- While the bulls have done a good job with the rally up to bar 20, it is still within the overall trading range and at yesterday’s high. This will make bulls hesitate to buy until there is a stronger upside breakout.
- The bulls need to keep the breakout point gap above the bar 9 high open. As of bar 23, it looks like the gap is going to close. This further increases the risk that the rally to bar 20 is a bull leg in a TR.
- Bar 24 is a bull give up bar. This increases risk of a test down to the bar 14 low.
Yesterday’s Emini setups
Al created the SP500 Emini charts.
EURUSD Forex market trading strategies
EURUSD Forex daily chart
- The EURUSD is continuing to go sideways today after yesterday outside down reversal bar.
- The bears are creating a disappointing pullback following the August 5th breakout above the July 16th high.
Summary of today’s S&P Emini price action
Al created the SP500 Emini charts.
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See the weekly update for a discussion of the price action on the weekly chart and for what to expect going into next week.
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Charts use Pacific Time
When times are mentioned, it is USA Pacific Time. The Emini day session charts begin at 6:30 am PT and end at 1:15 pm PT which is 15 minutes after the NYSE closes. You can read background information on the market reports on the Market Update page.