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I mentioned yesterday that we hadn't seen any kind of
meaningful retracement on ES since the low and here we are. The gap I
wasn't expecting to fill filled, and we had a serious reversal day.
Since
then ES has returned to retest the rebroken range support / resistance
level at 1016.5, and then fallen back to near the lower range trendline
at 1101.5. I am expecting a test of that trendline today, and if broken
the next target is the lower trendline of the range below at 1084 ES:

Fortunately I
cancelled my long orders on ES when EURUSD broke down through an
important resistance level yesterday, followed then by ES, GBPUSD and
Oil, among others.
I don't think that this is the
major top that I am looking for, mainly because the USD currency pairs
that I'm watching have not yet reached target. EURUSD and GBPUSD
particularly are halfway to their targets, and have stopped at natural
internal resistance levels. After this retracement I am expecting their
climbs toward target to resume. Here's what I mean on EURUSD:

There is no
pattern on EURUSD that gives a retracement target, but I have found a
right angled and ascending broadening formation on GBPUSD with a target
in the 1.46 area. This is a medium probability pattern however, and it
may not make target:

I also have a
retracement target on the Vix of just under 28. There is a declining
trendline on the Vix that may well contain any retracement for the
moment:

Oil broke the
recent rising channel yesterday. Unfortunately a broken channel gives
us no retracement target, but I have marked the two obvious retracement
targets on the chart.

There are no
really solid retracement targets to give here. The highest probability
target for me on ES is 1084, as that would be an almost exact 50%
retracement from the most recent major low, but 1101.5 may not be
broken. More significant will be when we break back up with confidence
through an upper range trendline, as that will be a strong signal that
the retracement is finished. Until then the range trendlines are still
the most important support and resistance levels and should be used for
short and long entries cautiously while this retracement continues.
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