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Through the prior close... Monday's gap up to 2714.50 was well off of Sunday night's 2721.50 high, but still well above the 2700.50 overnight low. Dipping through the opening 15 minutes of volatility settled into a choppy range largely contained between 2705.50-2712.75, and ranging around 2708.00-2709.00, which ultimately contained the close. Overnight action's new info... Already firming soon after the Globex open, news of a budget deal seemed to be drive price sharply higher. Sunday night's highs were probed by 3 points up to 2724.25 before midnight. Ranging flat-to-lower found support at what is this morning's 2720.50 bias-up target. The consolidation finally resolved by surging into Europe's opens, attacking 2727.00. Another correction has recovered to now probe fresh highs probing 2728.00. If, then... (notes to accompany the Tour recording) Overnight patterns don't necessarily guide intraday activity. One example is Sunday night's highs, which had stopped pessimistically short of touching the consolidation from last Tue-Wed, and its "higher prior lows" at 2723.00-2727.00. Contrarianism would have made that bullish, if the attack had developed intraday. Another example is Monday night's actual test of those same higher prior lows. Their test intraday would be likely to react down, but gapping up above resistance often extends through it intraday. The question is how today's opening 15 minutes of volatility negotiates the higher prior lows -- and possibly also the gap back to Wednesday's 2730.00-2731.00 close. First Trade... [Click here to view the Bias parameters] Exiting the open at 9:45 above 2722.75 would be likely also to exceed the 2720.50 bias-up target at 10:15 to renew the bias-up signal.

Overnight rally extends intraday. The overnight rally peaked upon testing the gap back up to last Wednesday's 2730.00-2731.00 close. This doesn't qualify as filling the gap, which must be done intraday. But a pullback down to 2726.00 surged at the open, to and through overnight highs up to 2733.00. Gradually eking even higher has touched 2735.50. 2735.50 isn't an impressive calculable target. As resistance, 1-minute RSI diverged negatively and 3-minute RSI eventually left persistently overbought territory. Price has reacted down to 2732.00. All of which seems to be noise, since 2735.50 satisfies very little buying pressure. 2735.50 also stops pessimistically short of touching last week's 2737.00-2737.75 highs. That's potentially bullish from a contrarian perspective. Reacting down under 2732.00 could test 2730.00 and still be likely to resume the rally. Unless something more dramatic were to develop below, the rally could extend to 2743.50 or 2751.00.

TUE afternoon signal (triggered at 1:20 ET) SPX ES Bias-up: above 2744.25 2743.50 ...would target 2751.75 2751.00 Bias-down: under 2735.50 2735.00 ...would target 2728.25 2727.75 Signal status: LATE BIAS-UP . BIAS VIDEOS... INTRO // EXAMPLE 1. At 1:20, trading above the bias-up signal or under the bias-down signal would put into play a test of its bias-up or bias-down target. 2. Not triggering either bias signal at 1:20 would be "no-bias," and the bias signals should define the bias environment's range. -- A test of the opposite bias signal would be targeted if one bias signal was tested before triggering no-bias. 3. Touching the bias signal within 3 minutes either way of 1:20 would invoke a grace period through 1:30 to trigger a late signal. -- "Late" signals don't require testing the opposite bias signal, but it's still likely. 4. Still testing the bias signal at 1:30 after invoking the grace period would trigger "noN-bias," with no bias influence.

A seasonal timing window may be rushing to fulfill upside. The open's rally peaked at 2735.50, but none of my measurements justified that being the rally's end. Room for a pullback down to 2730.00 was fully exploited before price began firming. Firming, and then surging to 2742.00 before the bias environment began lapsing. Flat-to-higher ranging through the noon hour attacked 2745.00, fulfilling the rally's next higher target at 2743.50. Reactions down held 2739.00, and now the afternoon's bias-up has triggered late. The rally's next higher target at 2751.00 -- which is also this afternoon's bias-up target -- is in-play.

RSIs are now overbought at the current high attacking 2747.00 to require that any immediate dip be recovered. Back under 2742.00 could be difficult to recover.

Wednesday is the wek's most liquid, and the most predictive Wednesdays precede expirations and 3-day weekends. Counter-trend sponsorship ahead of 3-day weekends is difficult to generate after Wednesday. Fulfilling the 2751.00 target without putting into play a higher objective could be difficult  to reverse back down.

Sunday night's rally up to 2721.50 wasn't able to escape the orbit of 2708.00-2709.00. Its room for noise at 2705.50-2712.00 was re-entered soon after Monday's open, and contained the balance of the session. But that only delayed Sunday night's intent, and Monday night's rally compensated for the delay. Bias-up parameters had been far exceeded overnight, but Tuesday's open was greeted at the 2727.75 renewed bias-up target. While also testing "higher prior lows" from the Tue-Wed consolidation at last week's highs. After having trended relentlessly overnight. All of which was entirely vulnerable to losing the rally's sponsorship. But reinforcements arrived immediately to extend the rally. The ultimate objective at 2751.00 was attacked to within 3 points during Tuesday afternoon's bias environment. Its shallow correction to 2741.50 reacted back up into the close. Wednesday's peak liquidity ahead of the three-day holiday weekend offers a template that both fulfills rejects the higher objective before entering the noon hour. Maintaining higher highs into the afternoon would be much more difficult to reverse down. Details and other markets coverage are discussed in the post-market Wrap recording here. Monitor overnight Globex trading in the chaRTroom here.

WED morning signal (triggered at 10:15 ET) SPX ES Bias-up: above 2749.75 2748.75 ...would target 2756.00 2755.00 Bias-down: under 2739.75 2739.00 ...would target 2733.75 2733.00 Signal status: BIAS-UP, BIAS-UP TARGET MET . BIAS VIDEOS... INTRO // EXAMPLE 1. At 10:15, trading above the bias-up signal or under the bias-down signal would put into play a test of its bias-up or bias-down target. 2. Not triggering either bias signal at 10:15 would be "no-bias," and the bias signals should define the bias environment's range. -- A test of the opposite bias signal would be targeted if one bias signal was tested before triggering no-bias. 3. Touching the bias signal within 3 minutes either way of 10:15 would invoke a grace period through 10:30 to trigger a late signal. -- "Late" signals don't require testing the opposite bias signal, but it's still likely. 4. Still testing the bias signal at 10:30 after invoking the grace period would trigger "noN-bias," with no bias influence.