On Friday the market gapped up again, hitting SPX 2454, then pulled back to end the week at SPX 2443.
Gap openings like this typically occur during corrections.
Since corrections are often filled with gap openings, we do not find the seven gap openings since the recent SPX 2491 high thirteen days ago all that unusual.
Corrective patterns may appear erratic short term, great for day traders, but when filtered properly one can uncover the larger cleaner pattern.
As noted previously we have filtered the noise and presented the simpler pattern for both the completed Minor a and incomplete Minor c.
We have also observed some symmetry in the Minor a decline.
The first three waves down from SPX 2454 bottomed at 2419: 35 points.
The last three waves down from SPX 2443 bottomed at 2408: also 35 points.
In other words Minute a and Minute c were exactly equal.
Thus far for Minor c we have the first three waves down from the SPX 2491 high bottoming at 2417: 74 points.
Now we have a three wave rally up to SPX 2454 thus far.
This comparison suggests, when Minute c does get underway the decline may equal 74 points or a Fibonacci 0.618 relationship to that number.
The low is naturally relative to where the current three waves rally ends.
Short term support is at the 2428 and 2411 pivots, with resistance at the 2444 and 2456 pivots.
Short term momentum ended the week around neutral.
This week let’s look at the big picture. The very big picture.
While published data on the US stock market only began in the year 1885, we have been able to piece together, using secular Saeculum cycles and economic cycles, how the US market would have looked from the early 1700’s.
As an emerging growth economy the US would have not looked anything like the European markets that do have stock market data going back that far. That data was not considered.
From around the year 1700 to 1929 the US experienced a 200+ year grand super cycle bull market GSC 1
The 1929-1932 crash, when the stock market lost nearly 90% of its value, ended GSC 2
While short in time the crash made up for it in price damage.
A GSC 3 bull market began at that 1932 low.
Within GSC 1 there were five super cycles, approximately: SC1 1700-1770 SC2 1770-1776 SC3 1776-1850 SC4 1850-1857 SC5 1857-1929
Within the current GSC 3 there have been two completed super cycles, with the third underway: SC1 1932-2007 SC2 2007-2009 SC3 2009-xxxx
Since super cycle bull markets last 70+ years, this SC3 is not likely to top until around the year 2080.
Within each super cycle bull market there are five Cycle waves.
SC1 of GSC 3 divided as follows: C1 1932-1937 C2 1937-1942 C3 1942-1973 C4 1973-1974 C5 1974-2007
Notice the Cycle wave bull markets can be as short as 5 years or as long as 30+ years.
Also note, no matter the wave degree the bear markets are always much shorter in time than the bull markets.
Since super cycle bull markets last 70+ years, this SC3 is not likely to top until around the year 2080.