WFC is moving ahead of the market for better or worse?My overall thesis is we are in the very early stages of a multi-year decline ultimately with the S&P 500 below 3500. I have been wrong many times before so I will just take this thing in stages and see if it plays out. After this massive decline, we should be in for a great market rally of many decades. I am expecting the market to end its recent rally this week. The current rarely would be about a week in length depending when it began for individual stocks. The rally has done a few important things with its slow and prolonged upward movement, mainly prevents a wave 3 signal from occurring during the next decline.
My wave 3 indicator tends to signal wave 3s and 3 of 3s. See my scripts for the specifics of the indicator. If the market had a short wave 4 up and then a sharp or prolonged drop during wave 5, a new wave 3 signal would occur which violates the currently placed Minor wave 3 (yellow 3). Allowing separation from the current wave 3 signal enables wave 5 to drop quick or slow.
This chart applies select movement extensions based on wave 1's movement on the left and then another based on wave 3's movement on the right. I keep the values between 0%-100% on the chart for wave 2s and 4s retracements of the preceding wave's movement for reference even though the retracement values would be inverted.
Specifically for WFC, Minor wave 3 was the shortest impulsive wave, likely indicating wave 5 will be 49 bars (30 minute scale) or less. This will likely put a restriction on the length of the decline. Additionally wave 4 is moving faster for this ticker than it has been on the others I have studied. Minor wave 5 should drop below wave 3's bottom of 65.515. Using some basic movement extensions, it will likely go lower, but likely not too much more. Once we bottom, we should see another rally over a few weeks. I will forecast what that could look like as Intermediate wave 1 nears its end.
While WFC has been trading with most of the other signals I am watching, the current rally could be a sign of Intermediate wave 1 possibly having ended at the current Minor 3 bottom. This would mean we are in Intermediate wave 2 now. In this case, the top of Intermediate wave 2 is quickly approaching (no higher than 78.98. I will evaluate this solution if the rally continues next week.
