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i think it'll bottom out on monday and start its uptrend late monday/early tuesday. everyone over the weekend is freaking out so that'll transfer to early monday morning - so i think tuesday will be the real indicator as to whether or not we'll be in the doldrums or not
 
The dollar filled a gap early, hit the 20-day EMA, then reversed down.

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Yup, that was a classic bull flag breakout. Very impressive considering those 4 consecutive negative reversal days heading up to last Friday.
 
Nice intraday bounce, but here comes the last hour.

The Dow is still lagging, down 180+, but the S&P is flat and small caps are showing strong relative strength.

I am hardly ever surprised when the market does the opposite of the obvious, so heading into the weekend we might expect some selling, so maybe we should expect the opposite? :sick:


The opposite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q40IwQF65a4&t=65s
 
After a series of more minor economic reports coming in lighter than expected while yields were rising, investors and the market were acting tepidly. Now this strong jobs report, coupled with a non-threatening wage gain, gave the tepid bulls an excuse to buy today.

Historically however, when jobs reports came in 50,000 above or below estimates the ensuing rally or sell-off that came with it, had a tendency to reverse in the coming days. Whether that's the case this time, I don't know. We saw what happened in 2017 where we needed to throw "historically" out the window.
 
Well, we got the post jobs report reversal, but now it it is testing the 50-day SMA for support. So fat it has, but I don't know if that can hold if that gap remains open. It's a small technicality, but there is still a gap there.

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We had a couple of interesting intra-day breakdowns by the S&P and Nasdaq as far as support lines. The S&P 500 is clinging to the 50-day EMA so far, but if that goes, there's not much support below that. Is this the big bear flags starting to break?

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The transports are leading again today but it's testing that pesky 50-day simple moving average again...

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The Small caps (s-fund) are desperately holding at some key support. If it fails, next stop would be 1340, but 1360 is the key level now.

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The 200-day moving averages are being given great respect so far. As mentioned in today's commentary there is also some decent longer-term support rising and landing in the same area as these MA's. Can the low be this clean, or do we need another washout?

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