Starting it off.

It's ready for up and over, that's for sure.

And that's what has me thinking it may not do it.

But it looks imminent.

What would be really nuts is if we went back to 'regular' action, a chop range day after such a move.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Just waiting on a dump.

Anyway, it just gave me a vibe like it wants to pop.

But basically we broke the pattern of the last 3.5 weeks, and went into narrow range chop, like it used to do. So, I'm not really paying attention to the wiggles at all.

Like I said, other than a few nice early scalp setups, I'm just waiting on the 43.75 short setup to see if it plays out or not.

I finally decide to try out a morning in here, like I've been promising for so long, and it's a crap action morning. Figures.

This time, now really?

Anyway, the ES did something it usually doesn't do, and that's make any kind of move in the Friday after close mini session. This time it kept moving up, set a new high for the entire move, and closed almost at the high tick. It is now fully at the monster weekly backtest line. If this is a bear market, it should roll off this, and roll hard. There is a key area above, built from the immediate price action, and that comes in at 76-87, with a grouping of key Fibs at 94.00-95.50. I could see it hitting the lower end of the area, maybe a little above the lower end, and still be respecting the key TL backtest, but not much more.

Still, does it even seem remotely feasible that this is going to dump to significant new lows from here? The only hope I see at all is that not only do all pundits and analysts say no, it's completely and utterly an impossibility, most readers in here, I believe, are also saying no out loud right now. And that's not meant as a slight to the readers in here, who are among the most highly informed out there, I feel, it's more meant to imply just how good they are at sucking people in. We'll see. I don't really care, from a trading standpoint, what these maniacs do with it. So, that's what I'm working with as we reach arguably the most critical juncture perhaps in trading history.