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S&P 500 Breaks Out — Trump, Tariffs & Bullish Island PatternDonald Trump has mentioned the US stock market in every meeting he has held in the past few days, which has caused the US stock market indices , including the S&P500 Index ( SP:SPX ), to rise: "Better go out and buy stocks now". President Donald Trump told a crowd in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday that the markets are just getting started. “It’s going to get a lot higher,” he said, right as the S&P 500 posted its first gain since late February. But one of the main reasons for the increase in the S&P 500 Index and US stocks is The United States has dropped its tariffs on Chinese goods to 30% , down from a brutal 145% , while China is slashing its own duties on US imports to just 10% , temporarily, for the next 90 days . ------------------------------------------------- Now let's take a look at the S&P 500 Index chart on the daily time frame . S&P500 Index managed to break the Resistance zone($5,737_$5,506) and 21_SMA(Weekly) by Breakaway Gap . In terms of Classic Technical Analysis , the S&P500 Index has managed to form a Bullish Long Island Pattern , and this pattern is one of the continuing patterns and will be a sign of the continuation of the S&P500 Index's upward trend . In terms of Elliott Wave theory , it seems that the S&P500 index has completed the corrective wave and is in new impulsive waves , which could cause a new All-Time High(ATH) to form. I expect the S&P500 index to increase by at least +5% as it approaches the Uptrend line , and we will see the possibility of a new ATH . Please respect each other's ideas and express them politely if you agree or disagree. S&P 500 Index Analyze (SPX500USD), Daily time frame. Be sure to follow the updated ideas. Do not forget to put a Stop loss for your positions (For every position you want to open). Please follow your strategy and updates; this is just my Idea, and I will gladly see your ideas in this post. Please do not forget the ✅' like '✅ button 🙏😊 & Share it with your friends; thanks, and Trade safe.
OANDA:SPX500USDLong
by pejman_zwin
15
The Macro Importance of the 4.23 Breakout or Fake-outWe are at an incredibly interesting and unique point in SPX. I am fascinated to see how this ends up resolving. Based on everything I know, these things predict extreme trend events come next. First let's take a moment to qualify the idea the 4.23 is going to be important. The idea of using a line generated by a multiple of a swing that happened almost 20 years ago to make decision on what will happen in the next years sounds silly. I know that. But look at what happened on all of the previous fibs. Seeing is believing. This doesn't tell me the 4.23 has to be important, but it supports the idea it may be. If you bet any of the previous fibs would not be important, you'd have been wrong. All of these did their thing in one way or another at one point. It's quite incredibly, really. Especially if you understand that these pullback/breaks levels are common any time you use these fibs in a developing trend. They tend to react to the same levels in the same ways. Then it happens on the Big Stage .It's amazing. And if it continues, the next thing is ultra amazing. The 4.23 head fake has disastrous forecasts. In the full play out of the 4.23 rejection we return to the 1.27 fib. In this case, that'd be a Depression style event. When a trend forms through fibs having all these pullback/break reactions and it gets to the 4.23, if the trend fails there -a massive mean reversion move happens. When applied to a decade long rally, that would be horrific. This is the macro bear risk I have discussed at length, generally taking shorts into the fibs and covering/reversing long into supports). In the grand scheme of things the 4.23 area would be seen to have been essentially the top with some wild blow off action above it that turned into a head fake. We'd be right in the end times. A lot of nuance is needed for real trading but in a historical analysis it'd be seen that we were at the high now. On the other hand, if the 4.23 breaks we usually see a move that is equal in size to all of the move before but happens in a fraction of the time. 4.23 breaks can be a wild with all supports/resistances being easily broken in big persistent candles. 4.23 breaks are rare, but they tend to put you into the most exceptional of price moves. For context, when a 4.23 breaks when I am trading them on a 15 min chart prices are moving that fast I generally don't have time to do much. Even if I am sitting there watching at the exact moment it kicks off. It's like this; "Wow! Okay I need to think what to ... WOW!". Prices are moving too fast to process any reasonable plan. By the time you consider the situation you're in, you're in a totally different one. Nice conditions to be trailing stops. Hard to enter into. The magnitude of a 4.23 break here would be astonishing based on the previously discussed norms. It'd predict that SPX would go into a move where it was doubling from the high. Furthermore, it was doing it in a tiny fraction of the time it took the previous rally. For our doubling number it'd be best to take the breakout of the 4.23. Let's call it 5000 to keep it simple. Would give us an upside target of 10,000 in SPX without accounting for any stop hunting or overshoots. It would also imply that this happens in a crash up type of move. "Crash" being defined as a strong and sustained breaks of SR levels with no big reactions. When it comes to tactical trading this is a total nightmare at this moment in time with the suggestion of massive profits (with potentially easy markets) in the coming year or so. At this point in time it's very tricky. If you accept the premise that either we're in a head fake over the 4.23 and a very aggressive rejection is coming or we're now into the start of what will become hyper over performance in the trend you have to consider this as a bit of a limbo point where there could be a chance to do well one way or the other but if you screw up something terrible will happen to you. If it was a 4.23 fake out we'd have a super strong sell off. There could then be a big bull trap coming up to a double top/spike out and this would then turn into the most sensational of crashes down to under the 4.23- as the macro uptrend experiences what will become its first major trend failure. The action in that move short term would be insane. There could be some late month rejection here (or next month) and then a massive monthly engulfing candle. We could see a month -20% or so and then see follow through down months. The amount the market could drop and how fast it'd be predicted to drop make it enticing to bet on this. To bet on this, you have to bet into the rallies. There are too many times we dip and rip to try to sell after bear candles etc. They produce too many false signals. You can end up losing money even if you hit the big trade eventually. Betting on rallies allows you higher RR and when there are short term pullbacks you can get stops into even. But that leads us to the headache ... If we're inside a real breakout of the 4.23, we're in the foothills of what will become the most exceptional of rallies. During this, we should see massive high momentum moves up. These will generally go from one resistance level to another. Said differently, you'll see the spikes that seem ideal to fade into the levels you think are the levels to fade - and they won't be levels to fade. Conversely, the bull strategy would have you aggressively buying all dips and breakouts. When you see momentum looking to get in one it quickly. If it pulls back, all the better. Doesn't matter if you take a string of losses because if you end up in lower at the end and it makes a new high you'll be net up on the round trip. The trend is going to be accommodating and it's only going to get better and better. You can't lose on the upside, and if you come at it in a really attacking way you could perhaps position before a massive upside move. But you might be doing that into the very end of the trend and have all sorts of sickening gap risk/slippage risk and margin call risk. Of course, the 4.23 thing might end up not even being important. But from the lens I see markets through, I have to think it will be. If it's not, I'll be surprised. And it makes me believe that whatever way it goes there has to be something exceptional. When it comes to these juxtaposed outcomes watching price is not all that helpful. Because this can happen in an up move. With this happening in a down move. It can be really hard to tell things apart until the point where you've lost is crossed. If we break the high and you think we're going higher, it's important to be aware of the risk of a bigger pullback. But it can just break and run, too. Or to the downside it could break abruptly. Breaks more commonly have traps in them and would look something like this. So we have a unique situation where I think it's fully justifiable to expect there would be exceptional moves with the market going up 100% or down over 60% - and both of these would be expected to happen within a short period of time. Bulk of it over a couple years. But the nuances of how to go about positioning in a risk efficient way are tricky. On the bear side, you should be fading this rally and looking to build positions into drops as they develop. But if you're doing that against a bull trend you'll get decent entries if you're good with resistances but build up a position into support and end up down/even on all your entries. And you'll lose a lot of entries with no reaction - so you'll lose overall. On the buy side you should be aggressively accumulating and buying close to supports but in the 4.23 head fake thesis this would be literally the worst time in your life to do that. If you're buying and we go up and breakout, you should buy more. But if it's a breakout/correction then you'll get nailed. You can buy more into the correction but you might be "Exit liquidity" in the dump. In the dump, you can short aggressively but are liable to get cut up a dozen different ways. This set of dilemmas are always something faced when you're trading at a binary inflection point. Even on small charts when we trade at 1.61/2.61 and 4.23 levels this set of paradoxes exist and are tricky to know exactly what's best to to do - on the Big Stage, it's mindboggling the different things that may happen. And daunting knowing the different traps. If this 4.23 thing is going to be right, the one thing that is sure is there's going to be well above average chances to make big money when the 4.23 decision is resolved. The 4.23 rejection would be a terrible event. And with who knows what types of real world impacts/reasons. From an intellectual standpoint it is fascinating. If we went into that style of crash now we'd have done it off basic TA patterns, mirroring major crashes of the past and even the interest rates cycles would have been the same as previous bubbles. In the final analysis of it, almost all aspects of the formation and bust of the bubble would have been foreseeable with basic pattern matching ideas. All of the things that have happened in the last 50 years and then all of the crazy things that'd have to happen for a depression crash in the years to come - all foreseeable with extremely basic pattern ideas. The fact everything has matched as well as it has so far trading through the fibs is already remarkable. If it was punctured by a mean reversion fat tail ... wow! On a personal level, even just in the minor drops of 2020, 2022 and recent one it's clear to see indices going down a lot is going to really hurt people. At this point we're just seeing this in speculators but it makes me think about what this would be like on a grand scale. It'd not be nice. The 4.23 breakout thesis is fascinating and exhilarating. A prospect of heading into the major boom section of a mega trend and having full awareness of that being what you're heading into and approximately where you can expect that to end up going. These would be conditions where someone who knows what they're doing can make insane amounts of money. Even just showing up will make money (as long as you don't end up overstaying). In this extreme doubling event we would still be predicting bad times ahead - but they'd be differed by a couple of years. From a selfish point of view this would all seem great. To benefit from a bubble and be able to bet on a spectacular reversal later. From a humanistic point of view it seems like it'd only cause greater devastation later. No one cares now because we're back at all time highs and boohoo anyone who sold the bottom, but at the lows of April there were anti suicide posts pinned in trading forums. That's how bad things are now on a 20% drop. Think how much worse they'd get if mania develops more. It's an interesting time. For the sake of sanity and profitability I am doing my best to be as agnostic as possible about what the outcome will be. Plan for all, execute as suitable. I hope we see the 4.23 break. It's the better of the trading ops (Since it offers two massive swings) and if we can crash up or down by the same amount of points, who cares which way it goes? Trading long can be logistically easier in many ways, so it'd be the preference if all else was equal. And being a bear is tiring. It's particularly tiring having to explain to people stating a statistical observation on a SR level doesn't mean you're depressed, angry, a shill and having a different opinion about markets does not mean you hate them. So they don't have to try to fight with you. Every 5 mins... If you're a bull and say something will go from 100 to 130. And it goes to 40 then it goes to 129 ... you were always right. That's what people say. If you're a bear at 100 and it goes to 120 then 40 you were an idiot that got lucky eventually. I always find that funny about social media. We're in interesting times. If my 4.23 hypothesis turns out to be correct we're heading into the history books. It's just a question of "For what?.
SP:SPX
by holeyprofit
5
US500: Bullish Trend Holds Despite Moody’s DowngradeUS500: Bullish Trend Holds Despite Moody’s Downgrade On Sunday, Moody’s downgraded U.S. debt to AA1, citing rising interest costs and unsustainable debt growth. They noted that U.S. debt funding costs are much higher compared to similar economies, with interest payments significantly exceeding those of similarly rated countries. At the market open on Monday, US500 dropped from 5959 to 5874, losing nearly 1.40%. While this downgrade was expected to have a bigger impact, the index quickly recovered, reaching a new high of 5972 after the U.S. market opened. Despite the initial dip, US500 remains in a strong bullish trend. Unless a major event shifts market sentiment, the index is likely to continue rising. Even if small corrections occur, the overall trend is still intact. You may find more details in the chart! Thank you and Good Luck! ❤️PS: Please support with a like or comment if you find this analysis useful for your trading day❤️
CAPITALCOM:US500Long
by KlejdiCuni
7
US500 | Potential Wyckoff Reaccumulation UnfoldingThe US500 appears to be working through a classic Wyckoff reaccumulation phase following a strong rally during price mark-up. After a swift move upward, price formed what looks like a Buying Climax , followed by an Automatic Reaction (AR) and now an Upthrust at the recent highs. So far, volume and delta behavior are aligning well with this. During the upthrust , we saw increased volume, but delta turned negative, indicating selling pressure into strength. This was also accompanied by a CVD divergence, showing that although price pushed to new highs, the underlying buying wasn't supporting the move just yet. That often hints distribution by strong hands as late buyers step, likely fuel by the good ol' Trump Pump. With that in mind, a pullback into the lower range is expected to create the Secondary Test (ST) . This could lead to a possible Spring , a shakeout below recent support (around the 5700–5720 zone) meant to trap sellers. Ideally, this would be followed by a Test , where price returns to the Spring zone on lower volume and stronger delta/CVD confirmation, signaling demand returning and absorption of supply. But this is all to be determined. This doesn't have to play out exactly as I mapped. But if we see something similar play out, it would lead to higher prices and confirmation of the mark-up phase. Until then, patience is key, this phase of the structure is about traps and tests, not breakouts.
CAPITALCOM:US500
by Wyckognito
10
Hellena | SPX500 (4H): SHORT to 38.2% - 50% Fibo lvl 5489.Colleagues, I have reviewed the waves a bit and I believe that when the strong psychological level of 6000 is reached, a reaction and correction in wave “2” is possible. I propose to consider this movement as a strong five-wave movement. Wave “1” will be over soon. I consider the 38.2% - 50% Fibonacci levels of 5489 to be the main target of the correction. Manage your capital correctly and competently! Only enter trades based on reliable patterns!
OANDA:SPX500USDShort
by Hellena_Trade
4
Super-cycle top in? I was considering that we had an extended wave 1 from march 2009 to feb 2020, the wave 2 bottom was march 2020, then wave 3 top was jan 2022, wave 4 bottom was oct 2022 and now we are on wave 5. This would be an extended wave 1 instead of wave 3 and that means wave 3 & 5 should be equal and with the current top that would put them within 1.1% of each other. This also fits with the alternating pattern with wave 2 being quick and simple and wave 4 being long and complex. Thoughts?
SP:SPXShort
by Sir_prized
1
Moody’s U.S. Downgrade – Why Markets May Stay ResilientMoody’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating from Aaa to Aa1 is notable but unlikely to trigger a major market sell-off. Here’s why: Why a Severe Drop Is Unlikely: Already Priced In: Follows similar actions by S&P (2011) and Fitch (2023); markets may have already adjusted. Minimal Regulatory Impact: Aa1 is often treated similarly to Aaa in capital and collateral rules. Stable Outlook: Signals no immediate risk of further downgrades, offering reassurance. U.S. Strengths Intact: Economic size, resilience, and dollar reserve status continue to underpin investor confidence. Possible Reactions: Treasury Yields: May rise slightly on risk re-pricing. Equities: Modest pullback possible, but no sharp correction expected. Sentiment: Could revive fiscal debate, but not a game-changer for positioning. Conclusion: The downgrade highlights longer-term fiscal concerns but is unlikely to cause immediate market turmoil. #Moody’s #USDebt #CreditDowngrade #MarketOutlook #TreasuryYields #SPX #RiskSentiment
SP:SPX
by kksaha87
1
S&P500: Vanna Snapback is Over – Short Gamma Drift Underway Belo📝 Summary Short gamma regime re-entered after 20Y auction shock. Below 5870, dealers face structural sell pressure from vanna + gamma + charm convergence. Wait for VIX to fall before buying any dip. 📊 Price Levels to Watch 🔺 Upside Breakout Trigger: 5885 → Reclaiming this level flips dealers back toward neutral gamma, opening short-covering squeeze potential toward 5925–5950 🔻 Downside Acceleration Zone: 5870 → Structural pressure zone. Vanna-driven delta hedging intensifies. Below here, the market enters a volatility expansion regime 🧱 Gamma Walls: Call Wall: 5950 Put Walls: 5875 / 5850 / 5800 🔍 Structural Regime Analysis Macro trigger: Last night’s 20Y Treasury auction was weak, triggering a sharp risk-off move. SPX broke 5935 → 5875 in 15 mins, entering short gamma zone (GEX 🔴🔴). Volatility Regime Shift: VIX spiked >20, breaking the downward vol trend that supported recent vanna snapback rallies. This marks the end of volatility compression. Vol expansion regime is in effect. Dealer Hedging Mechanics: Below 5870, Vanna pressure increases sharply as price declines + IV rises. Dealers short puts must delta hedge by selling ES, amplifying downside in a feedback loop. No Dip Buy Until Vol Stabilizes: VIX must fall or implied volatility flatten before any long bias resumes. Until then, treat rebounds as short entries, not long setups. ⚠️ Volatility Metrics Supporting This View GEX: 🔴🔴 (Negative Gamma on both 0DTE and aggregate expiries) IVx 5D Change: +4.04% → Implied volatility rising into the drop PUT$: 85.6% → Option flow heavily defensive (puts > calls) Skew: High, supporting demand for tail risk hedging 🧭 Tactical Strategy Short bias below 5870, scale-in entries on failed intraday bounce attempts First targets: 5850 → 5800 (Put gamma cluster + dealer momentum zone) Invalidate short above 5885 (where short gamma neutralizes) 📌 Final Note We are now inside a third-order Greeks-driven sell zone: Speed ↑, Color ↑, Ultima ↑ → this is a self-reinforcing volatility trap. No long setups are valid until structural vol metrics cool down.
CBOE:SPXShort
by mithril174
1
S&P500 Same recovery path with 2020 and 2009The S&P500 index (SPX) has recovered almost 90% of its losses since the February 19 2025 All Time High (ATH) and many have already started calling for a technical correction. If we compare however this 2025 Tariff fueled correction with the recent most aggressive ones (COVID crash in 2020 and Housing Crisis 2008/2009) we see a different picture. On their respective 0.9 Fibonacci levels (close to which we are today), both of those market recoveries went straight to new ATHs, without testing their MA50 (blue trend-line) until the next Cycle peak. They had that tested before when the price was trading near (or on)the 0.618 Fib. Notice also how a MACD Bullish on all three charts, confirmed the aggressive recovery pattern straight after the bottom. Instead of a correction, history shows that we might be looking at new ATH soon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Please LIKE 👍, FOLLOW ✅, SHARE 🙌 and COMMENT ✍ if you enjoy this idea! Also share your ideas and charts in the comments section below! This is best way to keep it relevant, support us, keep the content here free and allow the idea to reach as many people as possible. ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 💸💸💸💸💸💸 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇
TVC:SPXLong
by TradingShot
If SPX Uptrends Above 86 Fib, It's Buy All DipsIt's really surprising to see SPX rallying again today after the 86 fib hit - with the drop off it holding basic trending conditions. This doesn't happen very often. When you look at all instances of this in SPX history you'll find about 80% of the time it drops much more from here. Whether it's a bull or bear move overall. In this area there's a lot of risk of being rugged on the long side because the move is hyper extended / high ATR and even a moderate correction can be 10% - however, if we continue to consistently uptrend above the 86, then it's buy all dips. When an 86 breaks without any notable pullbacks, it tends to trend on small timeframes. Bluffs bear moves a lot - but keeps holding inside the last low and makes new highs. This is something that can happen inside of both tops and breakouts. Topping moves can spike out the high by a nominal amount and then drop - like the2007 high did. Trending moves can break the high, hold retests and continue to grind up, like the 2021 rally did. In either event - the smart bet is to buy all the dips because they offer 1:3 RR, you'll usually only have to lose 3 of them to work out that's a bad idea and that means it's quite unlikely youll lose money - conversely, if it continues to uptrend, you'll make bank! If the 86 is not a resistance level, then next upside level is 6130. This would seem best case scenario for bears. In the bigger picture, SPX has come down off extremely important long term resistance levels. These could be a major top. It's a considerable risk ... but if those levels are going to break, then we are probably going to head into exceptional uptrends. If we do not top out at the macro resistance levels, then it's probably going to become close to impossible to make money as a bear. And I mean that in terms of over the next couple years. Not just for a little while. The last 5 yrs have been optimal yrs to be willing to trade both sides of risk assets. There have been a lot of ups and down. I think if we have a failure of the bear attempt here that will turn into a market that's very unfriendly to bears. Even if you only trade good levels you'll lose money. If you used good entry and stop trailing rules, there've been fortunes to be made on the bear side of the last years. But if we break this time, I find it very unlikely you'll see me being bearish for the foreseeable future. The upside potential on a monthly resistance break here would be staggering. While we were at the low I made a detailed explanation of how my bias over the coming years would be informed by the outcome of the rally. We're into the action end of that now. If we uptrend above resis, it's buy all dips. There could be a tricky spike out bull trap and there could be an exceptional rally. In the rally scenario, we'd soon enter into conditions where massive profits could be made over the next 2 year.
SP:SPX
by holeyprofit
1
Correction and up for SPX500USDHi traders, Last week SPX500USD slowly went up some more. The pullbacks are overlapping so it looks like price is forming a leading diagonal (wave 1). I'm still expecting a downmove because of the price action. Price came into the 4H FVG and is showing a bearish doji. So next week we could see a (corrective) move down. Let's see what the market does and react. Trade idea: Wait for price to develop some more before you take any trades. If you want to learn more about trading FVG's & liquidity sweeps with Wave analysis, then please make sure to follow me. This shared post is only my point of view on what could be the next move in this pair based on my technical analysis. Don't be emotional, just trade your plan! Eduwave
OANDA:SPX500USD
by EduwaveTrading
1
S&P500 Historic reversals like this delivered even +100% gains!The S&P500 (SPX) is making a remarkable bullish reversal and on the monthly (1M) chart is even more evident due to April's candle, which almost closed flat leaving a huge wick under it, a feat we've never seen in recent history. What we have seen however since the 2008 Housing Crisis, is every time the index hits (or approaches) its 1M MA50 (blue trend-line), it reverses to an incredible rally, technically a new Bull Cycle. This is what happened in April, the index came a breath away from the 1M MA50 and delivered the strongest monthly bullish reversal of our time. On top of that, it hit and rebounded exactly on the former All Time High Resistance, which held and turned into Support. All such Resistance levels since 2008 have held. Also note that the only time the 1M MA50 really broke (closed the month below it), was during the March 2020 COVID flash-crash, which is a non-technical event/ irregularity and still it rebounded on the 1M MA100 (green trend-line). The minimum long-term rise that SPX had after such correction was +76.20% and the maximum +104.17%. Assuming the minimum price increase for the current emerging rise, we expect the index to hit 8300 by late 2027. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Please LIKE 👍, FOLLOW ✅, SHARE 🙌 and COMMENT ✍ if you enjoy this idea! Also share your ideas and charts in the comments section below! This is best way to keep it relevant, support us, keep the content here free and allow the idea to reach as many people as possible. ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 💸💸💸💸💸💸 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇
TVC:SPXLong
by TradingShot
Why You Shouldn't "Hope" for Bear Markets.A lot of the underlying TA analysis to support this is contained in my other post about the 4.23. It's recommended you read that first to understand context. Click below; This isn't an analysis post. In this post we won't be dealing at all with the idea of if you should expect, plan for or take steps to protect yourself against bear markets. We're going to focus solely on the fact some people really want it. They want it bad. You can tell by how extremely excited they get whenever there's even a mild hint it will happen. Some people think I want this. They say the funniest of things. The amount of times I've had someone say something like, "Don't worry there will be a crash (some variation of "But when I say so" usually goes here) - which silly concept. The idea I "Worry" there will not be a crash. That I have a thesis in which millions of people get hurt, but at least my idea was right. If you understand the scope of things that happen in a true bear market, to think this way is very shallow and selfish. People are liable to lose everything they worked their whole life for. Families losing security. Kids can end up on the streets. It's a dire tale - and to hope for this to happen just so you can say "Told you so" is a terrible way to be. There are two good reasons as a trader you may want the market to go down. 1: Volatility. Markets get faster on the downside and if you're good, that means more money. 2: Benchmark beating. Unleveraged it's hard to beat SPX in an uptrend. Pullbacks help, a lot. Both of these are now what I'd consider largely invalid reasons. They were good ones to have before but now we have massive volatility on both sides. We're inside an expansion of volatility which will likely continue whether we go up or down. On benchmarking, it's important if you're in the asset management game but at this point you should be so far ahead of the benchmark that it's irrelevant. Good active traders at this point should be streets ahead of passive investors and passive investors should not even know it because we're back at highs and they think that means they have optimal performance. What they think doesn't matter, you can show people with money your results and being so far ahead of the benchmark greatly benefits you. At this point in time you can be suitable ahead of the benchmark on a risk adjusted basis and have the prospect of heading into hyper volatile markets where you can make a fortune on either side. And if you're not in this sort of situation, you're not going to make a lot of money in a bear market - anyway. You probably have too strong a leading bias on the bear side which has led to you round tripping gains and even in a sustained bear market this same thing will happen in the bear market rallies. A prominent reason some people hope for a bear market is simply want to see bulls fail. It seemingly annoys them no end to see other people doing well by doing something they think they should be punished for. While they often won't outright admit this, it's clear in the tone of how they speak. The way they celebrate any time someone bullish might have maybe lost some money - and they are eager to tell you how they are going to go broke in the next leg. This is a bad way to be. In life. You should not be too bothered about what other people are doing. How they get on with that. And you should not expressly hope people fail and suffer just because they have a different idea of market analysis from you. It's not a healthy way to be. It's bitter and caustic - and that isn't stuff you want to cultivate as personality traits. You can spot people who are like this easily. They'll generally dress it up as "Warning people" but it's not warning people when you cheer and jeer if the bad thing happens to them. That's called "Gloating" and if you were really interested in the helping of people, you'd not gloat. Indeed, the bad thing happening to them would be consider a failure on your part. Your warning sucked and no one listened. When it becomes stupidly obvious what motivates these people is when the market goes up and they get mad. If this happens, you're not "Trying to help". You are hoping they will fail so it validates yourself in some way. Which is bad ... You want to address that and find a way to validate yourself without needing others to suffer for you to have "Told them so". If the 4.23 thesis is correct them whatever way to market resolves there's liable to be a mega trend. If you're in the game to make money - which way is better. Up or down? It's up. Clearly. Because when the market goes up your risk is contained to things like fraud and malpractice with your counter parts. You bank and broker are only going to go under if something extremely shocking is unearthed. In a downside market, it only takes one thing to have a problem and through the magic on contagion all of your banks and brokerages now have a problem. You know what problems with banks and brokerages mean? They mean you put effort into making money you might not get. It's not the thing to be "Hoping" for. Is it? It's really dump, to be blunt about it. When you drill down into it the two main reasons people want a bear market are they don't like seeing bulls succeed and they want to be able to say they got it right. That's the bottom line with most bear forecasts. And you can always tell because they'll be upset if the market goes up. The other is basic ideology of how markets "Should act" but this is basically just hoping the bulls fail and also generally totally detached from the reality of how markets have always acted. Markets have never acted "As they should". Never in 200 years. Why show up now and moan about it? These things are all entirely non important. When you weigh them against the known outcomes of bear markets. Millions of people suffering. Risk to financial structures. Increased chance of slippage and gap events in the market making it hard to understand and control risk. Just so you can "Be right". Or just so people you don't know can suffer because they did something you didn't do and you're not happy that went well for them. At the risk of repeating myself ... not a good way to be. There used to be a bit of a good reason when it comes to social media because sites like this have become increasingly less useful/interesting as the uppy markets continue. More and more we have the future knowers that will insist you use their ideas. You may not even discuss your ideas. If you do, you should be mocked and branded as . While a solid bear market would bring an end to this we'd run into a couple problems. One - the bears would take their place. We seen this at the April lows. When I posted bull analysis at the April lows bears showed up with all the same tone and noise of bulls when you post into resistance. Like the bulls, if they're right they come back to tell you how stupid you were and if they're wrong you'll just not see them again until they're right. Where they'll come back to remind you how stupid you were, even if you've already banked profits on all your ideas at this point. This is mildly annoying but it's not the sort of thing that you should pick global disaster over. All you have to do is just not read the comments. Granted .... the fact you have to post analysis that's the popular idea here or you should not bother reading the comments because it's be full of childish nonsense isn't ideal for social networking. It doens't make these kinda place "Fun" places to be. But it's better than the wipe out event. And now even the wipe out event will not significantly improve the content one should expect. It used to be the case if there was a wipe out event then most of the people posting would be -people who have some deep experience trading either side of the market and can offer insightful ideas. In the previous drop we seen how this will play out now. People will not know what they're talking about but rather than let that slow them, they'll just get ChatGPT to write the post for them. And it will be entirely standard and predictable posts. Most of the "Bear market analysis" I seen in April can be duplicated by putting about 6 words into ChatGPT. If I can prompt ChatGPT and read your post - why would I read your post? I can ask ChatGPT the same thing. Can ask for more detail. Give more context. Chat back and forth about different outcomes. Or I can come to social media and read the same 5 bulletpoints over and over again. It's not hard to see which is more interesting. So even the idea that we'll have more interesting content from more objective traders is largely out the window now. We'll probably just have generic ChatGPT posts. "Hey ChatGPT, write me an essay on tips to trade a bear market". That's how most of the bear analysis in April was written. All in all, the only two reasons people hope for bear markets at this point is ideology and ego. Both are things you should leave at the door when you enter the market. Whether it will happen or not is something yet to be determined, but it's not something to hope for. Although I will say this, if the 4.23 breakout comes I think sites like this will become essentially unusable for people interested in discussing strategy, odds and contingency planning in markets. It kinda already is and it would get much worse. Unless you want to post, "I too agree with the popular idea" you may as well not post. And if everyone is posting the same thing, you may as well not post. But these are small prices to pay to know your broker is probably going to stay in business.
SP:SPX
by holeyprofit
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MASTER PATTERN TEACHING using TradingView charts. Master pattern - Tonight we are looking at the SPX 500 index directional trade. Using Options. This is a master pattern technical analysis set up for entry, discipline and execution of a trade. I will use the 3 time frames to identify 1) Higher time frame ( HTF) Direction trade, trend & liquidity, volume confirmation, and the contraction box 2) Lower time frame ( LTF) Market makers and smart money set up contraction and expansion phases 3) Lower time frame ( LTF) Continuation leg of the trend Once I have identified and selected my option DTE and spread I will execute when the LTF has reached a new low in the intraday. Hope you learned something new. Happy Trading. Tommaso
SP:SPXLong
by chicagotrader10
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Wick Tricks at Highs Based on conventional wisdom the SPX monthly chart looks super bullish with the big wick. I want to explain how this can be misleading. For some "Creds" on the idea, I've attached a post made at almost exactly the low where I forecast the wick and spikes while stating this could be inside of a bearish setup. In the bearish setup, we'd often get bad news around this price. These candles can be bullish, of course - I don't think I need to insult your intelligence by explaining the bullish read on these candles. You know them. But did you know you also see one of these in almost every major top in history? I just posted almost every notable drop from 2008 to 1966. Here's a recent one. I could go and start posting examples from the 1910s, but I hope I've made my point. If it's a wick trap at a top, we generally will see a capitulation month within 3 months. Usually, it'd be next month with this month closing weak to make a wick on top.
SP:SPXShort
by holeyprofit
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S&P 500 INDEX ,,, Possible pullback Uptrend Needless to say, every rising will be risky without a correction (either price or time). After about three months of upward moving with just a small time correction, personally I am waiting for a correction to get new buying positions. In addition, some of the companies have prices rising dramatically and this proves that having a small corrective wave is vital for the market. Around 5800 can be a good place for a correction and a pullback. totally wait for another sure trigger for entry or adding new buying positions. Good luck.
OANDA:SPX500USDLong
by pardis
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