Emini June bear bar with long tail below, TCL overshoot

Market Overview: S&P 500 Emini Futures

The S&P 500 Emini futures bear bar with long tail below on June monthly chart. It also overshot the trend channel line. Bears want a measured move down to 3600 based on the height of the 9-month trading range height or lower around 3450, based on the height of the 12-month trading range starting from May 2021. The bulls from the January top as a two-legged pullback. They want a reversal higher from a wedge bull flag (February 24, May 20 and June 17) and a trend channel line overshoot.

S&P500 Emini futures

The Monthly Emini chart

• The June monthly Emini candlestick was a big bear bar with long tail below. June closed slightly below May low.
• Last month, we said that odds slightly favor a test above May high and traders will be monitoring whether June closes as a strong bull bar above May, or a surprise bear bar closing near the low.
• June never traded above May high and sold off below May low by the middle of the month.
• The bears see the move down in June as the second leg down from the 1^st leg in April. They want a measured move down to 3600 based on the height of the 9-month trading range height, or lower around 3450, based on the height of the 12-month trading range starting from May 2021.
• Since June was a bear bar, it is a sell signal for July. However, the bear bar with long tail below indicates that the bears are not as strong as they could have been.
• Bulls want the breakout below May low to fail and reverse back up. The bull’s case of a failed breakout would have been stronger had June closed above May low and above the middle of the bar around 3910.
• The bulls see the move down from the January top as a two-legged pullback. They want a reversal higher from a wedge bull flag (February 24, May 20 and June 17) and a trend channel line overshoot.
• The Emini closed below the 20-month exponential moving average in June. The last 2 times this happened were during the sell-off in December 2018 and the Covid-19 sell-off in 2020. The Emini then reversed to close above the 20-month exponential moving average the following month. 
• Will July be the same? Or will July be a consecutive close below the 20-month exponential moving average?
• While the sell-off since January reached bear market territory (-20% from the high), there are value investors who are looking to buy these deep (-20%, -30%, -40%, -50%) pullbacks.
• The candlesticks down from January to June also had a lot of overlapping bars. That indicates that the bears are not as strong as they could have been.
• While the Emini may continue to trade slightly lower, odds are the Emini should not trade too far below 3400 which is around a -30% correction from the high.
• The trend channel line overshoot in June also increases the odds of a pullback to begin within 1-2 months.

The Weekly S&P 500 Emini chart

• This week’s Emini candlestick was a bear bar with long tail below. 
• Last week, we said that odds favor the Emini to trade at least slightly higher and traders will be monitoring if the bulls get a consecutive bull bar (follow-through buying), something they have failed to do since April.
• This week traded slightly higher, but the bulls failed to get a follow-through bar.
• The bulls hope that this week was simply a deep pullback and wants another leg sideways to up. They want a failed breakout below the May low.
• Bulls see a trend channel line overshoot, and a wedge bottom (Feb 24, May 20 and June 17). There is currently a 3-bar bull micro channel on the chart.
• Bears want a continuation of the measured move down to 3600 or lower around 3450, based on the height of the 12-month trading range starting from May 2021.
• The bears want the Emini to stall around or below the June 2 high, or the bear trend line and reverse lower from a double top bear flag.
• They see the pullback last week as a 50% retracement of the first leg down.
• The bears will need to create a follow-through bear bar next week. If they get that, odds of a re-test of June low and a breakout attempt increase.
• Since this week was a bear bar, it is a sell signal bar for next week. However, the long tail below makes it a weaker sell signal bar. 
• Can next week trade higher without trading below this week’s low?
• Yes, it is possible. It would be the second leg sideways to up of the pullback.
• The bulls will need to create consecutive bull bars trading far above the June 2 high to convince traders that a reversal higher may be underway.
• The trend channel line overshoot increases the odds of a 2-legged sideways to up pullback beginning within 1 to 3 weeks. The pullback phase may have started 2 weeks ago.

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