S&P500 In a Bullish Channel Ahead of the Fed’s Meeting

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Written By: Mircea Vasiu
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  • The S&P500 index remains bullish and close to all time highs with one day ahead of the Fed meeting. As long as it stays in the rising channel, it is bullish.

The stock market remains well bid ahead of the most important event of the week. The chances are that moving forward until tomorrow’s Fed meeting, the market will simply “drift” on the lack of news and developments.

Tomorrow’s focus will not be on the actual statement but on the forward guidance that the Fed delivers. If Jerome Powell suggests that the Fed may taper the QE program sooner rather than later, that is a risk to the market. However, the chances are that the Fed will not do that, but any hawkish signal, even a hint that it may do so in the future, might trigger a taper tantrum.

Also, the market appears to be stretched at these levels. Nevertheless, as long as it remains in a rising channel, the conditions of a bullish trend are in place. More precisely, by forming a series of higher highs and higher lows, the S&P500 index has a hard time dropping.

S&P500 Technical Analysis

While inside the channel, traders should focus on buying when the price moves in the lower half and targeting a new higher high. This strategy has worked like a charm so far. Bears, on the other hand, may want to go short but only on the index, breaking the higher lows series. Otherwise, the risk is that the market will quickly bounce to a new high.

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Written By: Mircea Vasiu

Mircea, MBA in International Business graduating Magna Cum Laudae, trades for a living and contributes to various financial publications for more than six years. He writes about macroeconomics, stock indices, currencies, and most recently ETFs and individual stocks. For the past decade, he’s involved in everything trading related, mostly in the currency market, both with manual and algorithmic trading.

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