Today is the Trading Cycle turn date. You may recall that I had suggested that this may be an inverted cycle. I had originally inferred that the Master cycle low (November 25) would coincide with the Trading Cycle, which is normally a low. But the Master cycle bottomed 12 days too early. The Trading Cycle only allows 4 – 8 days for a turn window, which have now passsed. What’s left is an inversion, which sets us up for a potential crash.

There are two items worth mentioning about this (inverted) cycle high. The first is, it comes only 12 days from the beginning of a new Master Cycle. That makes the new cycle extremely left-translated. If the decline from here takes out 1158.67, that will give us approximately 7 weeks of falling market into the next cyclical low.

The second observation is this: The red line which has been acting as resistance since October 27is also the bottom trendline of the original Orthodox Broadening Top, with the original target below 1000 in the SPX. This rally has ended with a fractal repetition of the original Broadening Top with the nearly the same target. From this pattern I gather that, (1) The original Broadening Top may not have entered its crash phase yet, or (2) Having met with partial success, it may simply be having another go at it. In either case, I expect to see the SPX below 1000 by the end of January, and maybe sooner.

Today we begin to look for a decline below the following supports for confirmation of the reversal.

· Daily mid-cycle support at 1257.57

· Intermediate-term trend support at 1234.44

· The 50-day moving average at 1214.58

· Head & Shoulders neckline at 1150.00

Good Luck and good trading!

Tony

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