MATIC Remains Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Primary Chart: MATIC Price Chart Showing Overhead Supply Zones and Fibonacci Retracements
MATIC Network Shows Strength in Recent Months Despite Being in a Bear Market
As shown in the Primary Chart above, MATIC network's price continues to trade well below all-time highs of $2.92 / USD. No argument can be made that it has overcome its bear market just yet. Further, the flag / parallel channel that contained price for much of the rally off the mid-June lows has been broken to the downside (see Primary Chart above). Even so, MATIC has shown strength in the past two months since its June 2022 lows. Consider the chart below that shows MATIC having broken out above a downward trendline going back to all-time highs.
Supplementary Chart A: MATIC's Breakout above Seven-Month Downward Trendline
But despite showing strength in recent months, especially as compared to BTC and ETH, MATIC has been trading below major overhead supply zones that reach back over one year to August 14, 2021. The lower of these two supply zones zones was touched several times in late July and mid-August 2022, with a rejection back below it each time. See Primary Chart (above). MATIC also has a demand zone just below its current price. That demand zone is shown as a teal-blue rectangle in Supplementary Chart B below.
Supplementary Chart B: MATIC's Demand Zone as Support
An argument might be made that intermediate-term trading lows have been established at the June 2022 lows. Such an argument would be based on the measured-move concept, where the two legs of a corrective decline are equal or nearly so. In the Supplementary Chart C below, notice how wave A and C of a major A-B-C decline from all-time highs to the June 2022 lows have equality around the $.48 level. Price traded to this level, and broke below it somewhat, before reclaiming it in a reasonable amount of time.
Supplementary Chart C.1: Measured-Move Showing Potential Intermediate-Term Trading Low
Note that just because a measured move target has been met does not mean a correction is complete. Consider, for example, Supplementary Chart C.2 below, which is not a forecast or technical-analysis based price projection. It merely shows a manner in which a corrective pattern can continue upward in a bear market, consistent with complex Elliott Wave corrective patterns, and can continue higher for some time before resuming lower to retest or break the lows.
Supplementary Chart C.2: Hypothetical Example of Complex Corrective Pattern Continuing Higher from Measured-Move Low Before Retesting Lows Later
Despite substantial weakness in equity markets and crypto markets since mid-August 2022, MATIC has not shown sufficient weakness just yet to cause it to fall anywhere near its YTD lows at $.316. In fact, unlike other cryptocurrencies such as BTC and ETH, MATIC has not broken and held below its .382 retracement of the June-August 2022 rally. On the Primary Chart above, note how MATIC has found strong support multiple days right at its .382 retracements. BTC and ETH have not found similar support at their .382 retracement of the recent rally. In fact, BTC has crashed through all its key Fibonacci retracements including the .618 retracement around $20,488.65 and has held below this level (see Supplementary Chart D.2 below). This comaprison shows MATIC's relative strength since the June 2022 lows as compared to BTC and ETH.
Supplementary Chart D.1: ETH Has Broken Through Its .382 Retracement and Has Held at .50 Retracement
Supplementary Chart D.2: BTC Has Broken Through All Its Key Retracements and Has Held below its .618 Retracement
Conclusion: MATIC Network Remains Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place
So MATIC is stuck in chop between a rock and a hard place. The rock is the substantial overhead resistance, and the hard place is what appears to be just a few supports standing between price and bear-market lows. A weekly Ichimoku Kinko Hyo (Ichimoku) chart shows just how difficult the resistance is despite incredible price strength in recent months. The cloud remains very thick overhead and red colored and even thicker in the near future, signs of formidable resistance in downtrend. The Kijun line (blue) also stands as strong resistance in addition to the other resistances mentioned in this post. This line decisively repelled price in mid-August 2022.
Supplementary Chart E: Weekly Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Chart
Note the small twist in the Weekly Ichimoku cloud above, however, which suggests a possible weakness in overhead resistance where a rally could theoretically break above the cloud more easily under Ichimoku analysis principles. But the odds of this occurring in the current macroeconomic environment seem bleak at best. Nevertheless, markets do tend to move in unexpected ways, and this twist in the cloud should be monitored in October 2022 to see whether it holds any glimmer of hope for a break back above the weekly cloud. The weekly Kijun must be conquered first, though, and until price can rise above the Weekly Kijun, all talk of a break above the weekly cloud remains premature.
The daily cloud offers a little better picture for the trend in the intermediate term. Price remains above a green-colored cloud that slopes upward ever so slightly. But again, this is insufficient to change the bear-market trend, though it is a necessary first step. Even on the daily chart, price has fallen back below the Kijun line at $.90, and price has also pierced back into the cloud itself, a sign of weakness. Resistance seems to arise to current price action from the top edge of the cloud, called the SSA line.
Supplementary Chart F: Daily Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Chart
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BTC Likely to Test June 2022 Lows SoonToday saw volatile, whipsawing price action in both cryptos and equity indices. BTC was no exception. As discussed in an article on September 19, 2022 at the start of this week (see link in the Primary Chart above), the US Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) has held their September 2022 meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. This meeting concluded today with a presser at 2:00 p.m. EST in the US. The hawkish monetary policy that has been fostered by the FOMC has put pressure on risk assets for much of this year. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell clearly stated that monetary policy would continue to remain restrictive and tight for quite some time until inflation comes down toward its 2% target.
The Federal Reserve, along with other central banks around the globe, have been attempting to tackle sticky inflation. Inflation has been the number one problem in developed countries from a macroeconomic perspective, and it has been running at high levels not seen in decades. Though some argue that inflation may have peaked, and there are good arguments for this conclusion, it remains sticky and well above central banks' targets, which in the US is 2%.
The Primary Chart above links to other recent posts on BTC where key levels are discussed in more detail than in this post, especially the downtrend line and key Fibonacci levels.
After the FOMC presser, it appears that BTC is heading quickly to test June 2022 lows. BTC failed in its breakout attempts over the summer as to key levels. This is discussed in the prior posts linked in the Primary Chart above.
In the most recent post regarding levels to watch this week, .786 retracement of the summer rally was identified as a key one to watch. Price chopped around this level with two failed breakout attempts. These failed breakouts are similar to the failed breakouts as to other key Fibonacci levels as well discussed in the linked recent posts.
Supplementary Chart A: Failed Breakouts This Week over .786 Retracement Level
Given these failed breakouts, combined with the failure on September 13, 2022, at the major downtrend line resistance, BTC is likely headed to test June 2022 lows soon. First it must violate the lows from earlier this week at 18,271. A successful violation of this level will lead directly to June 2022 lows. After that, some of the Fibonacci Channel lines can be considered as subsequent targets.
Please also see the update by @Tradersweekly posted in the link below, which covers volume and some additional resistance levels based on multi-year price peaks. This article is highly recommended for a complementary but slightly different perspective on BTCUSD.
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Please note that this technical-analysis viewpoint is short-term in nature. This is not a trade recommendation but a technical-analysis overview and commentary with levels to watch for this week. Also note that countertrend trading, e.g., trading a rally in a bear market, is tricky and challenging even for the most experienced traders. Countertrend trades are lower probability trades as well.
This technical-analysis viewpoint could change at a moment's notice should price move beyond a level of invalidation. Further, proper risk-management techniques are vital to trading success.
Author's Comment: Thank you for reviewing this post and considering its charts and analysis. The author welcomes comments, discussion and debate (respectfully presented) in the comment section. Shared charts are especially helpful to support any opposing or alternative view. This article is intended to present an unbiased, technical view of the security or tradable risk asset discussed.
DISCLAIMER: This post contains commentary published solely for educational and informational purposes. This post's content (and any content available through links in this post) and its views do not constitute financial advice or an investment or trading recommendation, and they do not account for readers' personal financial circumstances, or their investing or trading objectives, time frame, and risk tolerance. Readers should perform their own due diligence, and consult a qualified financial adviser or other investment / financial professional before entering any trade, investment or other transaction.
ETH's Response to Support Levels Should Offer More CluesPrimary Chart: ETH's Key Support Levels Approaching Based on Fibonacci and a Measured Move
ETH's Recent Rally since June 2022
ETH made its YTD low on June 18, 2022, a day or two after many equity indices. Since then it has rallied, albeit not in a straight line, significantly. The rally has carried ETH approximately 1149 points higher so far, which is approximately a 130% gain. This rally has now reversed at least in the short term with the minor swing high made on August 14, 2022 at $2029.90.
Whether the recent rally constitutes a trend reversal or a mere bear rally remains uncertain. As Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke yesterday at an economic summit at Jackson Hole, Wyoming (US), he communicated the need for continuing restrictive monetary policy and tightened financial conditions until persistent inflation eases back to the 2% target. So macroeconomic headwinds suggest cryptocurrencies, equities and other risk assets may struggle at best or have more downside at worst. While not making a call for a bottom in ETH or any other risk asset , this article notes that markets can bottom even when macroeconomic news remains quite bleak.
Having identified the fundamental arguments relating to whether ETH may have reversed its downtrend, this article will not spend additional time forecasting the primary or longer-term trend in ETH. Instead, key price action and support levels will be discussed that may help evaluate the nature of ETH's trend in coming weeks. If the rally from the June 2022 low constitutes a major trend reversal (back to an uptrend), then the support levels identified will likely hold when tested. Sometimes a test can include a break that fails and quickly recovers back above the support, which is also called a whipsaw or false break.
ETH's Critical Support Levels for the Current Decline
The primary chart above shows key support levels using Fibonacci proportions. The Fibonacci retracements cover the range from the June 18, 2022, low to the August 14, 2022, high. These support levels lie nearby given ETH's significant decline on August 26, 2022. Interestingly, some of these key levels also align with important price supports at significant lows or consolidations. Two examples are described in the following list:
The .618 retracement (yellow line) of the two-month rally coincides with the price support (dark blue line) at swing highs in late June and early July 2022.
The .50 retracement (green line) aligns with lower end of a mid-July 2022 consolidation as well as the low on August 26, 2022 at 1488.00.
The concept of a measured move may also be relevant to the current multi-day decline. For a measured move, a corrective wave A is projected from the start of a projected wave C. Where A equals C is where the measured move zone begins. The measured move zone ends where wave C of a correction equals wave A times a Fibonacci proportion of 1.272. These two support levels lie at $1217.53 (lighter blue line) and $1080.02 (teal line), which are shown beneath the .618 retracement line on the Primary Chart above. Note that this article does not presume a measured move is underway—that would require predicting that the current decline will constitute a corrective pullback within an uptrend. As mentioned, no position is taken on whether the current decline resumes the downtrend or corrects a newly started uptrend.
In short, a measured-move level provides an area of support to watch to determine the nature of the recent decline. If price reverses at the measured move zone, then this increases the odds that the rally has further to run. If the measured-move zone fails, then this increases the odds of retest and break of the 879-880 lows in June. This is why the $1080 to $1217 area is important to watch over the coming days to weeks.
ETH's Shift in Shorter-Term Momentum
ETH's shorter term momentum has shifted to negative in the past two weeks. The shorter-term EMAs provide a good starting point for evaluating shorter-term momentum. Shorter-term in this context means several days to several weeks. Price has broken back below, and held below, the 8-day EMA for about 10 days. Over the past week, ETH's price tried at least twice to recover the 8-day EMA but failed back below by the close at the end of day. The 21-day EMA has now been broken too. Both EMAs slope downward and the 8 EMA has crossed below the 21 EMA, confirming the ongoing bearish momentum in the short-term.
Supplementary Chart A: ETH's 8-Day and 21-Day EMAs Show Short-Term Bearish Momentum
ETH's RSI on the daily chart confirms near-term shift in momentum. Note how RSI peaked towards the end of the recent bear rally around 71.42 on the daily time frame. This level is fairly overbought for a daily chart especially considering that the YTD price action has been largely bearish and choppy.
Supplementary Chart B: ETH's RSI Shows Short-Term Bearish Momentum
Note the sharp downtrend in RSI on the chart above as evidence by RSI remaining well below its EMA on the daily chart and RSI remaining within a well-defined, steep downtrend.
Inferences from ETH's Technicals
In conclusion, ETH's technicals do not provide an answer about whether the intermediate-term or long-term trends have reversed from this year's bear market. They do, however, help see that the near-term path of least resistance is somewhat lower. And they give us price levels and zones to watch to help determine what ETH's next move may be. And such levels may also help traders analyze whether the multi-week uptrend from June 2022 lows will continue further or whether it will be deemed a powerful bear rally within a remarkable downtrend.
Author's Comment: Thank you for reviewing this post and considering its charts and analysis. The author welcomes comments, discussion and debate (respectfully presented) in the comment section. Shared charts are especially helpful to support any opposing or alternative view. This article is intended to present an unbiased, technical view of the security or tradable risk asset discussed.
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SPX H&S Downward Breakout
Primary Chart: SPX Head and Shoulders Pattern with Neckline Resistance and Fibonacci Supports
SPX formed a Head and Shoulders pattern (H&S) on the daily and intraday charts over the past month. A H&S pattern is actually invalid until it's confirmed with a breakout below the neckline, drawn in dark blue on the primary chart above. In addition, because many traders and market participants see H&S patterns, they have a lower success rate. In any case, a retest of the neckline as a significant chance of occurring in the coming weeks even if the price ultimately continues its decline lower. So watch out for a retest of the breakout point, a common occurrence in choppy unpredictable markets like this year's market.
Key levels for this week appear to be SPX 4023, SPX 3981, which are immediate supports that may be reached soon. Whether these supports break or hold (or break and then are reclaimed) will be important especially in the near term.
A key level of resistance near term lies just over head at 4062.31. This is a Fibonacci level and it is the .382 retracement of the entire rally off June 2022 lows. Note that this level was tagged Monday, August 29, 2022, and held firm as resistance. In fact, Monday's high was just above this Fibonacci line by about 68 cents.
The potential for this decline to be a measured move also exists. A measured move occurs when a price move is corrective in nature and retraces only a portion of the prior move. Whether this move is corrective against the rally off June lows, or whether it is the start of a new impulsive decline back to lows remains unclear—it's the million-dollar question that is debated by everyone on financial media. In any case, examining the corrective measured-move target is a conservative approach to finding a level where SPX may reach to the downside, though nothing is guaranteed in markets.
The measured move area is just below 4000. If the first wave of decline has equality with the second wave of decline, the end of the second leg could reach 3997.73.
Supplementary Chart A: Measured Move Target Zone between 3941 SPX and 3997 SPX
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Author's Comment: Thank you for reviewing this post and considering its charts and analysis. The author welcomes comments, discussion and debate (respectfully presented) in the comment section. Shared charts are especially helpful to support any opposing or alternative view. This article is intended to present an unbiased, technical view of the security or tradable risk asset discussed.
DISCLAIMER: This post contains commentary published solely for educational and informational purposes. This post's content (and any content available through links in this post) and its views do not constitute financial advice or an investment recommendation, and they do not account for readers' personal financial circumstances, or their investing or trading objectives, time frame, and risk tolerance. Readers should perform their own due diligence, and consult a qualified financial adviser or other investment / financial professional before entering any trade, investment or other transaction.
NDX Approaches Critical Support LevelsPrimary Chart: NDX's Critical Support Levels Include a Two-Month Upward Trendline, Fibonacci Levels, and a Key Price Zone (Teal Box)
The Nasdaq NASDAQ:NDX approaches critical support this week as indices give back gains from the recent rally. The most immediate support has already been reached—see the teal-blue rectangle showing a major zone of price support formed by February and March 2022 lows and early June 2022 peaks.
This zone of price support also coincides with key Fibonacci retracement levels. Two key Fibonacci retracement levels lie just below where NDX trades.
12,947.55 is the .382 retracement of the entire rally from Covid 2020 lows to all-time highs in November 2022
12,695.74 is the .382 retracement of the recent two-month rally ending on August 16, 2022;
12,379.06 is the .50 retracement of the same two-month rally;
12,062.38 is the .618 retracement of the same two month rally
This area of support ranges from 12,000 to 13,054. It likely will lead to a bounce somewhere in the range of 12,350 to 12,750.
To determine where price will reverse, one could just pick the strongest support level near the .618 retracement with a tight stop in place. Or one could watch price carefully at each level to see how price responds. If price lingers at the support level, and slides into it without bouncing (or if it bounces and then falls right back into it and holds there), it likely may fail leading to the next level. If a support level quickly repels price, then the support may be worth considering for a short-term (several days) bounce off the support.
Key moving averages shown on the supplementary chart below suggest that the momentum, at least this week, has shifted to negative. To continue the rally, price must, at a minimum, recover the 21 EMA (Daily) and the 8 EMA (Daily) with closes above both. Then both need to shift upward. Because this has not happened, the path of least resistance remains down. But the risk-reward for a short position on the NDX is not idea given that major price support has approached and will likely lead to a bounce, at least in the short term.
Supplementary Chart A: Key EMAs Broken and Sloping Downward
If price bounces, the gap fill area around 13,200 appears to be a spot where price could reach in the short term. This gap may also serve as modest resistance depending on the bounce.
NOTE: This article is intended to present an objective, technical viewpoint of NDX's current price action and key levels using technical analysis. The author has no open position at the time of publication (August 23, 2022) on NDX, NQ, or QQQ, or related leveraged ETFs / leveraged inverse ETFs or options on the same.
DISCLAIMER: This post is published solely for educational / entertainment purposes and does not constitute financial advice or an investment recommendation and cannot account for any person's particular financial circumstances. The author would not want other investors / traders to lose money by relying *solely* on this idea rather than doing their own due diligence. Before entering any trade, please evaluate the risks of (i) the instrument / security being traded, (ii) the type of trade and its timeframe, (iii) risks inherent in that type of trade and its time frame, (iv) the inherent risks of shorting securities (presenting unlimited risk without hard stops in place), (v) the inherent risks of trading options, leveraged ETFs, and cryptocurrencies, and (vi) all financial risks arising each person's personal financial circumstances.
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