Weekend Report 2023_07_23

Bottom Line:

From last week:

“Identifying tops is more difficult than identifying bottoms. It is too early to have much of an idea of the immediate path of market structure. Closes by all four of the indices below the most immediate downside KRAs highlighted on the daily charts below is an initial signal a top of relative importance could be in place.”

I hesitate to use the term “unprecedented” because a substantial number those who trade/analyze markets trot the term out when their narrative goes awry (it can’t be that my analysis is bad – has to be the market(s).

So, I will simply state I have been mightily confused by market behavior in the overall US stock market since late last fall. The primary source of that confusion has been the (Auction Market) structural disconnect among/between the four US primary trading indices.

In hindsight where I personally most greatly erred is assuming the typical structural correlations would show up much sooner than they have. Taken individually, the indices have followed Auction Market Principles of Development in textbook fashion.

Presently, and even though the Russell 2000 is still significantly underperforming the other three primary US trading indices, the indices are generally more in synch from a structural perspective.

Next week is another Fed week, so let’s just watch both upper and lower levels as highlighted below. Anyone that suggests they know what the indices are going to do from Friday’s close heading into Wednesday is completely guessing.

So, once again we have initial signs a top may be in place or could be forming. If a top has formed it is a relatively rare inverted V top. If a top hasn’t been formed a test of the recent highs next week could offer quite a good reward/risk opportunity.

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The Russell 200 has reached the low extreme of an important KRA.