Weekly preview

Short term view - deceleration and bottoming for a few days.
Intermediate term view - I think this is a zig-zag correction and 20 week cycle low.

Choppy move lower as expected... until Friday. Now it looks like the alternate pattern simple zig-zag correction from the top early November. Friday feels like capitulation and the pattern looks like expanded ending diagonal... there is a reason to call it ending:)

I see three wave corrective moves.... this is A-B-C for me, 20 week cycle low right on schedule, market breadth and technical indicators pointing to a mature correction the indexes mildly oversold, but no signs for a bottom and reversal so far, pushing prices lower before an important news is usually a sign that the big boys want to buy and want cheaper prices.

All this makes me think that we have a correction and the next move will be higher. Of course we need a confirmation and we need to see some deceleration and bottoming action before FOMC which should give the excuse for a rally for a few weeks.
If I am wrong we will see only a pause for a few days and FED will disappoint causing the indexes to plunge lower... I have problems with such scenario because the suspected wave 3(from the December top) which should the strongest is an overlapping mess and a move lower usually starts when market breadth/technical indicators reset higher and not when they are close to oversold levels.


TECHNICAL PICTURE
Short term - the move this week was five overlapping waves lower which looks to me like expanding ending diagonal and a diagonal appears at the end of a move not at the beginning.
I think it was wave c of C of 4/X. In this case we should see a move higher to MA50/the upper trend line and a higher low to finish a bottoming process before FOMC.

Intermediate term - we have a channel now. If I am right this is only a-b-c and a rally should start from the lower trend line.

Long term - no change

MARKET BREADTH INDICATORS
The Market Breadth Indicators - last week there were no signs that we are close to a bottom and the VIX for example was way to low for a bottom. Now it looks much better the indicators are close to levels which we usually see around intermediate term bottoms... only some kind of bottoming is missing.
McClellan Oscillator - hit oversold level.
McClellan Summation Index - sell signal.
Weekly Stochastic of the Summation Index - sell signal.
Bullish Percentage - in the middle of the range.
Percent of Stocks above MA50 - close to oversold levels.
Fear Indicator VIX - hit 25 which is typical for intermediate term corrections.
Advance-Decline Issues - hit oversold level.


HURST CYCLES
We have now three shorter cycles and we are in the timing band(80 trading days) for a 20 week cycle bottom.

Week 16 right on time for a 20 week cycle low.

Tom Demark SEQUENTIAL AND COUNTDOWN - this technique spots areas of exhaustion.
Buy setup at day 5.
P.S. look at the histogram - I can not see a difference with any other a-b-c move in 2015 two troughs with a reset in the middle close to the zero line.