Is now looking rather ominous. We also came within a wisker MA’s of 15980 on the DOW today. The upper blue line is the Rambus “Jaws of Life” line (price now below). MA thinks this may result in a Slingshot but some analysts of the Elliott Wave persuasion believe this brings the lower blue line (Jaws of Death) into play.

What say ye, TA aficionados at GoldTent?

Armstrong From Jan 7, 2016:

http://www.armstrongeconomics.com/archives/41571

“The U.S. share market has fallen following the problems in China. We elected the Daily Bearish Reversal at the 16933 level and this warned of a test of the next important support zone. A daily closing below 15980 will warn that we may in fact penetrate last year’s low and pull off a slingshot move.”

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Here is my chart with a simple trend line out of the 2009 low. Looks like it broke down right near the market top back in May 2015.

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How does it all play out? Longer term is still in doubt, but this is what I am looking at for the current 6-8 month Intermediate Cycle. We have now made a lower IC Low on the SPX and that is never a good thing as it is one of the key signals that an asset is entering a Bear.

Shorter term Trading Cycles can and do make lower lows which lead to the next IC low. The longer Intermediate Cycle should never make a Lower Low (Cycle Rule #1), as this is another early signal of an emerging Bear Market (just look at the Gold chart that has been stair stepping down to Lower IC Low one after another. Basically, you want IC’s making higher highs and higher lows. Once this reverses, the danger is the stair stepping down process into a Bear Market Low.

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