S&P 500 Trading Outlook: Short-Term Overbought and Exhausted

S&P 500 futures has come within striking distance of my target 2915-8.

Note that this is a resistance target for S&P 500 and I expect to see some slowdown from here.

Market breadth is running about 2/1 positive (as of early afternoon) with Consumer Discretionary and Energy stocks leading.

Amazon’s (AMZN) breakout is extending given today’s upgrade. This is helping technology.

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Not much progress today out of industrials which are underperforming. Also notable that Telecom is down.

Financials also barely positive…  so on a day that’s seen as broadly bullish, we’re not getting much participation out of either Financials or Industrials.

S&P 500 Futures Chart

A 13 sell signal should be complete on the S&P Futures by Friday. And multiple signs of exhaustion with the market overbought here. I’m not chasing.

s&p 500 futures trading chart price resistance august 29

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