The NYMO cycle is categorically UP, but it has been making a sequence of lower highs and lower lows.
The cycle remains up as long as NYMO stays positive.
This pullback could simply be a corrective move to the zero line while price consolidates.
Alternatively, we began a downcycle following the July 29 high and negative NYMO will confirm it down the road.
Let's see what happens.
Of some concern to the bulls, the highs so far this month have come on a negative NYMO divergence.
Price is consolidating with a positive bias.
We closed all nearby up gaps in recent days leaving two nearby down gaps that could become magnets.
We ticked above the June high yesterday, but I don't think it was sufficient to squeeze out remaining shorts.
Another set of highs to get a thorough squeeze would not surprise.
We are about mid-way between the middle keltner and the upper keltner band.
Generally, price likes to be directionally moving toward a band or with a band; not hovering in between like now.
So, I am inclined to anticipate this consolidation will end soon one way or another.
I don't know what will happen.
I remain long runner positions in SPX and R2K.
I scaled out a little yesterday at the close on a discretionary basis.
It is usually a bad idea when I do this, but given the negative NYMO divergence, I was OK to take a few chips off the table at that price.