Market Remarks

Morning Notes – Wednesday October 4, 2017

Directional Bias For The Day:

  • S&P Futures are lower
  • Drifting sideways with down bias since 4:30 PM on October 3
  • Odds are for a sideways to down move – watch for break above 2533.50 and below 2529.50 for change of fortunes
  • Key economic data due:
    • ADP Non-Farm Employment Change (135K vs. 131K est.) at 8:15 AM
    • ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI (est. 55.5) at 10:00 AM

Markets Around The World

  • Markets in the East closed mostly up – Sydney was down; Shanghai was closed for the day;
  • European markets are mostly down – Germany is up
  • Currencies:
    Up Down
    • EUR/USD
    • GBP/USD
    • AUD/USD
    • NZD/USD
    • Dollar index
    • USD/JPY
    • USD/CHF
    • USD/CAD
  • Commodities are mostly down
    Up Down
    • NatGas
    • Gold
    • Silver
    • Copper
    • Platinum (unch.)
    • Palladium
    • Coffee
    • Cotton
    • Crude Oil
    • Sugar
    • Cocoa
  • 10-yrs yield is at 2.323% down from October 3 close of 2.334%; 30-years is at 2.867% down from 2.874%

Key Levels:

  • Critical support levels for S&P 500 are 2533.51, 2531.51 and 2525.84
  • Critical resistance levels for S&P 500 are 2535.13, 2539.13 and 2543.14
  • Key levels for eMini futures: break above 2533.50, the high of 4:30 PM on October 3 and break below 2529.50, the high of 11:00 PM on October 2

Pre-Open

  • On Tuesday, at 4:00 PM, S&P future (December contract) closed at 2532.00 and the index closed at 2534.58 – a spread of about 2.50 points; futures closed at 2532.75 for the day; the fair value is -0.75
  • Pre-NYSE session open, futures price action is to the downside – at 9:15 AM, S&P 500 futures were down by -1.75; Dow down by -14.00; and NASDAQ by -10.00

Directional Bias Before Open

  • Weekly: Up
  • Daily: Up
  • 120-Min: Up
  • 30-Min: Up

The trend and patterns on various time frames for S&P 500 are:

Monthly
  • Confirmed Uptrend
  • Uptrend resumption since Feb 08, 2016 after a pull back of -15.2%
Weekly:
  • A green bullish engulfing candle with small lower shadow and no upper shadow
  • Last week’s pivot point 2508.94; R1=2529.86, R2=2540.35; S1=2498.45, S2=2477535; R1/R2 and S1/S2 were breached; support levels breached after five weeks
  • An up week – fourth in last five weeks; sixth in last ten weeks
  • Broke above a down sloping flag (2378.36) on April 24, which has bullish implications; first target is near 2520.00 and the second target is near 2640.00
  • Broke above a down-sloping flag on November 14, 2016; first target of 2285.92 is achieved; second target is near 2467.50
  • Last swing low, 2322.25, was the low on March 27, 2017
  • Above 10-week EM; above 39-week SMA and 89-week SMA
  • Confirmed uptrend, though pulling back and moving sideways since June 5
Daily
  • A green candle with shaved top and short lower shadow
  • Last pattern, a down-sloping flag in June that was broken to the upside on July 13, is re-asserted
  • Above 20-day EMA, which is above 50-day EMA; Above 100-day SMA and 200-day SMA
  • Pivot Point=2532.85; R1=2536.86, R2=2539.13; S1=2530.58, S2=2526.57; R1/R2 were breached
  • Confirmed Uptrend
2-Hour (e-mini future)
  • Pre-open price action similar to that on October 3 but slightly higher and lower than previous close; less advance post-close on Tuesday and the high of 2533.5 was made immediately after NYSE session close
  • Broke above a horizontal channel – high 2506.00 and low 2487.50; 100% extension target near 2524.50 is achieved; 161.8% extension target is near 2536.00
  • Sequence of higher high and higher low since 12:00 PM September 5
  • Above rising 20-bar EMA, which is above rising 50-bar EMA
30-Minute (e-mini future)
  • Drifting down slightly since making a high of 2533.50 at 4:30 PM on October 3
  • Up trend since the of low of 2485.00 at  11:00 AM on September 25;
  • At flattening 20-bar EMA, which is above rising 50-bar EMA

Previous Session

Major U.S. indices advanced on Tuesday October 3 adding the to gains of last week and make all time highs. All closed the day at the highs.

  • S&P 500 Sectors
Up Down
  1. Consumer Discretionary
  2. Consumer Staples
  3. Materials
  4. Industrials
  5. Finance
  6. Technology
  1. Energy
  2. Utility
  3. Heath Care
  4. Real Estate

 

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