Key Support Levels Being Tested
The early stages of the market rout that began this week has brought the index to test key support levels overnight in the futures markets and are attempting to rebound from there. Whether this rebound attempt prevails in the regular market hours remains to be seen.
As we wrote in our trading plans since last week, this is NOT a bear market (yet), but the bull market has clearly ended and the bulls need to take a breather for some time. With the index in the no-bull, no-bear zone, markets could be in a whipsaw mode for a few days.
Positional Trading Models: Our positional models went short last Thursday – on a close below 4700 – at the daily close of 4659.06 with no stops. Models indicate instituting a buy-stop on the open to take profit at 4615. If closed out, markets will remain flat until the next positional trading plan.
Intraday/Aggressive Models indicate the trading plans below for today:
Trading Plans for WED 01/19:
Aggressive Intraday Models: For today, our aggressive intraday models indicate going long on a break above 4610, 4580 or 4550 with an 8-point trailing stop, and going short on a break below 4600, 4575, or 4540 with a 9-point trailing stop.
Models indicate long exits on a break below 4620 or 4545, and short exits on a break above 4580 or 4545. Models also indicate a break-even hard stop once a trade gets into a 4-point profit level. Models indicate taking these signals from 09:36 am EST or later.
By definition the intraday models do not hold any positions overnight – the models exit any open position at the open of the last bar (3:59pm bar or 4:00pm bar, depending on your platform’s bar timing convention).
To avoid getting whipsawed, use at least a 1-minute closing or a higher time frame – depending on your risk tolerance and trading style – to determine the signals.
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