{"id":20018,"date":"2022-08-17T07:30:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T11:30:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-08-17T07:30:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T11:30:38","slug":"has-the-market-bottomed-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/has-the-market-bottomed-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the Market Bottomed Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Andrew&rsquo;s Note:<\/strong> If you&rsquo;re feeling anxious about another crisis affecting your finances and your future&hellip; You&rsquo;re not alone. Jeff Clark sees another 2008-level crisis happening as early as tomorrow morning &ndash; he calls it, &ldquo;America&rsquo;s Darkest Hour.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This event is 100% guaranteed to happen due to a federally required announcement that could erase years of your wealth. Unfortunately, most people will only focus on the crisis and <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.jeffclarktrader.com\/?cid=MKT654768&#038;eid=MKT661319&#038;step=start&#038;plcid=PLC150843\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fail to see the opportunity<\/a>. But Jeff is here to prepare you.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight at 8 p.m. ET, Jeff will host an emergency briefing to show you how to potentially double your money during this new crisis. It could be your final chance to secure your retirement&hellip; so <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.jeffclarktrader.com\/?cid=MKT654768&#038;eid=MKT661319&#038;step=start&#038;plcid=PLC150843\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click right here to sign up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And below, read on about what Imre Gams thinks of the current market&hellip;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>On June 29, I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/the-market-must-overcome-these-two-obstacles-for-a-rally\/\">two obstacles the S&amp;P 500 would have to clear<\/a> in order to sustain a powerful rally.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, I shared this price chart of the S&amp;P 500 (SPX) index&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-center mb-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jeffclarktrader.com\/JMU\/images\/202208\/20220817-jmu-01_pdx529.png\" alt=\"Chart\" class=\"img-fluid\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The first obstacle I mentioned were the blue trend lines that show the SPX trading within a descending channel. And the second hurdle the market needed to clear was the 50-day moving average (MA &ndash; red line).<\/p>\n<p>Channels are powerful reversal patterns. Once prices break out of the pattern, you can expect a strong move in the opposite direction of the channel.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let&rsquo;s look at an updated SPX price chart to see how things have played out&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-center mb-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jeffclarktrader.com\/JMU\/images\/202208\/20220817-jmu-02_pdx529.png\" alt=\"Chart\" class=\"img-fluid\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As you can see, the market has successfully broken out of both the descending channel and the 50-day MA.<\/p>\n<p>Clearing these obstacles has opened the door for the strong rally we&rsquo;ve seen through the month of July and the first two weeks of August.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the SPX has rallied over 12% in just the last 6 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>And while that&rsquo;s a very encouraging sign, my analysis suggests the current rally will likely end soon.<\/p>\n<p>Let me show you what I mean on the price chart below&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-center mb-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jeffclarktrader.com\/JMU\/images\/202208\/20220817-jmu-03_pdx529.png\" alt=\"Chart\" class=\"img-fluid\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The first important feature on this price chart is the blue trendline. It&rsquo;s drawn by connecting the tops from January 3 and March 29.<\/p>\n<p>Because it connects the two major swing points that have preceded significant selloffs, I expect the market to treat this trendline as an important resistance level.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, this trendline comes in around 4370 in the index.<\/p>\n<p>The second important feature is the Relative Strength Index (RSI &ndash; red line).<\/p>\n<table bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: 1px solid #D7D7D7; margin-bottom:20px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding-left: 15px;padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 15px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17px; line-height:24px;\">\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Free Trading Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you checked out Jeff&#8217;s free trading resources on his website? It contains a selection of special reports, training videos, and a full trading glossary to help kickstart your trading career \u2013 at zero cost to you. Just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a> to check it out.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The RSI measures momentum and usually registers overbought and oversold readings when the market is about to make a turn.<\/p>\n<p>A reading above 80 is considered overbought, while a reading below 20 is considered oversold.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the RSI has just reached overbought conditions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When multiple pieces of technical analysis line up like this, it&rsquo;s time to pay attention to what the market is trying to tell us.<\/p>\n<p>If the market does start to pull back as it approaches this trendline, then there&rsquo;s natural support that comes in between the 4175 to 4100 levels &ndash; which is where the index was trading back in early June.<\/p>\n<p>If a pullback stabilizes around this area, I&rsquo;ll be looking for an opportunity to buy the market so long as the appropriate chart pattern appears.<\/p>\n<p>Happy trading,<\/p>\n<p>Imre Gams<br \/>Analyst, <em>Market Minute<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- MAILBAG BEGIN --><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Reader Mailbag<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Have you been looking to buy or sell the market recently?<\/p>\n<p>Let us know your thoughts &ndash; and any questions you have &ndash; at <a href=\"mailto:feedback@jeffclarktrader.com\">feedback@jeffclarktrader.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- MAILBAG END --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time to pay attention to what the market is trying to tell us&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"service":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"publication":[10],"person":[76],"newsletter-type":[],"ticker":[],"class_list":["post-20018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-minute","publication-market-minute","person-imre-gams"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20018"},{"taxonomy":"publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication?post=20018"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=20018"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-type?post=20018"},{"taxonomy":"ticker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ticker?post=20018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}