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Good Thursday Morning, MPTraders! July 16, 2026-- Pre-Market Update: -- In the past 24 hours, two technology powerhouses, ASML and TSM, reported much better-than-expected Earnings, but in BOTH CASES, investors have pummeled their respective stocks (coming days after the debacle in IBM). Although the indices have not violated major support so far, this behavior under the hood makes me "technically nervous" that the dominant uptrend patterns are weakening within a developing sell-the-great Earnings-news" set-up in an increasingly frothy market.
I would probably state that truncated bottoms in EW structures are not reliable in the same way that I view leading diagonals as being unreliable. But, as of now, there is some potential that this could be seen in the metals complex. And, yes, I have seen this before in metals.But, if you have been reading what I have been saying of late, then you know my preference is to be layering into positions down here. I am personally still leaving dry powder for lower lows, as they complete their patterns more often than not.
Overnight, we tested the high that was struck on 7/10, only to be followed by a sloppy move lower. We are still over the key support zone I have been laying out over the past several days, and yet under key overhead resistance. So with that, the market continues to move sideways on what is still very sloppy and unreliable action, leaving us yet again in the same spot from an analysis perspective and with the parameters still unchanged. As shown on the ES chart, I still have support sitting in the 7548-7485 zone.
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