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Making sense out of the Wave pattern has been a mind bender. I keep reminding myself, “There is order here. I just have to find it!” The decline since 1500 hours on Monday is not an impulse as I had originally expected

What I have come up with is a truncated Wave (ii) scenario for today’s move. This may be otherwise known as a “running” Wave (ii), since Wave c has been effectively stopped by the 4.5-year trendline

That means we may lose the 50-day support this afternoon or overnight and go into a panic decline that may last up to 4.3 days (30 hours). The monthly employment survey tomorrow

morning may very well set it off, if it hasn’t already begun by then. Remember what I said about the measured move. There may be a lot of push-back at 1800.00 to 1810.00 to create the illusion that the market has been “saved” again.

Ever get the feeling that VIX is being squelched? You are seeing it here. However, the “straw that breaks the camel’s back” may be coming overnight to

in the morning. By tomorrow, there should be no doubt what is going on. VIX is on a confirmed buy (NYSE sell) signal. The breakout merely confirms it.

Bloomberg has an interesting article on the VIX. The author, Tanvir Sandhu writes, “Don’t let the low U.S. equity volatility fool you. The increasingly

steep term structure of Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, or VIX, futures shows uncertainty remains high amid weak global growth and

shows uncertainty remains high amid weak global growth and rising concerns about effectiveness of central bank policies, Bloomberg strategist Tanvir Sandhu writes

The VIX futures curve’s typical contango, where the term structure is upward sloping, means roll-down costs will erode any returns from outright long positions or even cause losses.

In an era of high hedge-fund redemptions, central bank-induced price distortions, algorithmic trading and regulatory risks, the stock market is

susceptible to large flash crash-type selloffs that would bring so-called convexity of volatility into focus. In a convex relationship, volatility accelerates as equity declines.”

TNX is leading the decline again. This seems to be one of the better leading indicators of the decline. Money is already moving to treasuries, even though it is not as apparent in the SPX

The NYSE Hi-Lo Index is riding the up-sloping 50-day Moving Average. This indicates a lot of (central bank) institutional buying of Index ETFs. Across-

the-board buying of ETFs will keep the Hi-Lo elevated until some large stocks really lose it or until the entire market collapses, which may be the scenario for tomorrow.