Tuesday's session resumed the dominant trend lower as emini price levels opened lower and never looked up from there. An early surge lower settled into sideways chop as one would expect before the final hour sell-program plunge. These late-day selloffs have become a pattern... each week we see one or two such events.

The only way such closing bell swoons are possible would be an absence of buyers on the other side of those trades. Sell programs in the futures would be met with buy programs in stock markets from eager bulls viewing such plunges as bargain-basement opportunity. Not happening. There are no big fund managers anxious to step in front of sell programs right now... hence the entrenched downtrend we have expected to continue.

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S&P 500 futures opened in a gap-down move, surged down to S2 levels and played bump & grind around that magnet for a few midday hours. Once the 2:00pm EST mark arrived, it was clear sell signals all the way. Very profitable potential in the morning and especially the afternoon... trend periods are by far the easiest and biggest money trades to work within.

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Russell 2000 futures did the same. Rapid surge down to S2, bumpy bleed lower and the closing hour crush good for +8pts in one or two pieces with relative ease. Gotta love days like this... sell signals all the way, several of them offer significant profit potential.

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Weekly chart of the S&P shows price action back inside our predetermined range. 1242 - 1268 might be the overall roll for some time to come. 1220 and then 1200 would be next upon any further selling ahead.

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Small caps might magnetize near 705 ~ 710 is further selling is staunched. Otherwise, 680 and then 640 are two of several zones of attraction below.

Summation
It's a mighty fine time to be trading emini futures without any inherent directional bias. We absolutely do not care if markets go up, down or sideways in dramatic fashion. We only care that price action moves in large enough range to wrest consistent profits from. Right now, that is happening on a regular basis and probable to improve from here.

Today's FOMC minutes released at 2:00pm EST have potential to rattle all financial market tapes real hard. Sell resistance and clear breakdowns at every opportunity until that tact ceases to work. It should work for quite some time, and probably in dramatic fashion to boot!

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Austin P
www.CoiledMarkets.com
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Austin Passamonte is a full-time professional trader who specializes in E-mini stock index futures, equity options and commodity markets. Mr. Passamonte's trading approach uses proprietary chart patterns found on an intraday basis. Austin trades privately in the Finger Lakes region of New York.