Category: Pre-open

Not even attempting to extend higher isn’t itself bearish, not without it also breaking under a relevant support. Attempting to extend higher and failing that attempt can be bearish, because…
Meanwhile, we’ll expect upside behavior to match corrective bounce characteristics, and monitor downside for any accumulation behaviors. We’ll also monitor for patterns that project either. For instance, Wed’s A.M. rally…
Despite Globex’s upward slope and distinguishable higher highs and higher lows that resemble an uptrend, it is not a rally. Price remains under all relevant resistance, including Tue’s opening highs,…
Mon’s late dip went out at the 5-stager pattern’s minimum objective (retrace stage-2 to 7690). The alternative stage-5 objective (retrace deeper to stage-1’s 7678-7681 origin) attracted overnight’s decline to and…
Fri’s last 3 minutes into the close had overlapped the open, dismissing any requirement to extend higher. That’s not why the market reversed down overnight, although it likely contributes to…
Thu’s flat close at its 5699 open offers an opportunity for a sufficient gap up not to create unfinished business below at the gap-fill back down to Thu’s open. Anyway,…
perhaps also on the ECB rate policy decision. Globex’s rally into Europe’s opens may similarly reflect pre-PPI and/or pre-ECB optimism, which can be bearish from a contrarian perspective — especially…
Now we know it also left the market vulnerable to negative catalysts (for example, overnight Iran headlines that triggered that reversed test of 7688 resistance into a collapse testing the…
The rally from Wed’s pre-open retest of Tue’s low was leveraged by the impending 3-day weekend illiquidity. The character of Wed’s and Thu’s rallies undermined their durability — A.M. window…