SPY is building a rising wedge on the weekly chart. On the daily chart it has a falling wedge within, which indicates a short term bounce may be coming to fill the gap above at 455-456 and test the recent high at 459.
AAII survey continues to maintain high levels of bullish sentiment despite the past 2 weeks of selling. However, I want to point out that the NAAIM exposure index has dropped from over 100 2 weeks ago to 65.5. That’s a big dial back and its showing caution is the current trend. On July 27th, active manager equity exposure was over 100% due to leveraged longs with the S&P over 4500. As of August 11th, that has dropped to 65.6.
Key level for the upcoming week is 442.97
Bull case: Above 442.97 falling wedge is in play to target 445.32 then 448.65 and 451.94. Big squeeze above 451.94 to target 455.49 and then test the highs at 459.44
Bear case: Below 442.97 target 441.98. There is heavy support at 441.98-442.97 and it won’t go down easily. If bears can take it down, then targets 437.86 and 431.19. (rising wedge fires)