dax - a weekly priceaction recap and outlook
Good evening and welcome to the 2024 early bull games. Something like that bears must have felt thursday and friday. S&P500 & Nasdaq futures are breaking out big time and are on their way printing new all time highs. That being said i still think the moves are part of their respective monthly trading ranges and we won’t trade far above.
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Dax was early with the consecutive new ath’s and is now lagging a bit behind the bullish price action on us indices. So the biggest question into next week is, will we break above the smaller bear channel and join the us rally or are dax bulls done and every rip get’s sold?
We had 3 legs down inside the bear channel, broke out of the triangle to the downside but bulls closed at the friday highs and above the daily 20ema. For me to complete this market cycle (trading range after the big rally from october), would be another touch of the upper bear channel. Which one? Doesn’t matter but i think the higher one around 16970ish will get touched or broken. Why?
Let’s talk bull case first: Bears could not produce lower prices or big consecutive bear days below the 20ema. Bear channel held and bulls just bough everything under 16700. Bears tried 3 times and now they will probably give up to short higher again. Thursday and friday printed consecutive bull bars and it’s a buy signal. They want a retest of the ath or at least trade back to upper channel lines.
Bear case: The ath at 17199.5 was done with a big gap up and the daily closed deeply red. Since then every attemp at 17000 was rejected. Not really surprising after printing multiple new ath’s in the last weeks. Bears see the the break below the triangle as confirmation for lower prices and thursday + friday as a retest of that breakout. They do not want the market to close above the smaller bear channel line around 16800 otherwise bulls will see this as a buy signal.
outlook last week: sideways - good outlook since we closed a bit below last week
short term: probably up but just slighty in my odds. if friday was a bull trap and bears can get strong selling pressure, i look for shorts. but i would also not be surprised if we close monday above 17000.
medium-long term: down - what would change that? two consecutive daily closes above 17300
dax cfd
Dax was early with the consecutive new ath’s and is now lagging a bit behind the bullish price action on us indices. So the biggest question into next week is, will we break above the smaller bear channel and join the us rally or are dax bulls done and every rip get’s sold?
We had 3 legs down inside the bear channel, broke out of the triangle to the downside but bulls closed at the friday highs and above the daily 20ema. For me to complete this market cycle (trading range after the big rally from october), would be another touch of the upper bear channel. Which one? Doesn’t matter but i think the higher one around 16970ish will get touched or broken. Why?
Let’s talk bull case first: Bears could not produce lower prices or big consecutive bear days below the 20ema. Bear channel held and bulls just bough everything under 16700. Bears tried 3 times and now they will probably give up to short higher again. Thursday and friday printed consecutive bull bars and it’s a buy signal. They want a retest of the ath or at least trade back to upper channel lines.
Bear case: The ath at 17199.5 was done with a big gap up and the daily closed deeply red. Since then every attemp at 17000 was rejected. Not really surprising after printing multiple new ath’s in the last weeks. Bears see the the break below the triangle as confirmation for lower prices and thursday + friday as a retest of that breakout. They do not want the market to close above the smaller bear channel line around 16800 otherwise bulls will see this as a buy signal.
outlook last week: sideways - good outlook since we closed a bit below last week
short term: probably up but just slighty in my odds. if friday was a bull trap and bears can get strong selling pressure, i look for shorts. but i would also not be surprised if we close monday above 17000.
medium-long term: down - what would change that? two consecutive daily closes above 17300