Yesterday marked a 61% retracement of last week's drop. Normal retracement for a W 2, I think everyone was expecting this. I am particularly interested in the clean hanging man candlestick (investopedia.com/articles/active-trading/040914/understanding-hanging-man-optimistic-candlestick-pattern.asp) it usually marks the end of an uptrend. Needs to be confirmed today. I clearly shows that short sellers are ready to step in any time.The back to normal retail sales overshadowed the numbers in industrial production still in the -15%.
Bulls couldn't fill the island reversal gap orthe March retracement. But they kept on the upward channel alive ( not on the future's as it was substantially broken last week).
My attention will focus for the rest of the week on : 1)India-China Tensions (my desk neighbor is Indian it seems more serious than what the media tells us). 2) Crude inventories still rising ( settlement date is the 22nd of June) non-commercial might want to exit their position if it keep rising 3) Initial claim - main focus - as initial claims are now becoming white collard permanent lays-off (as shown by French car-manufacturer Renault with a 1.5K engineers layoff), which will have a much bigger impact than blue collar furlough. 4)Spike in covid cases as china's capital is in crazy type of lock-down again (dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8425311/China-reimposes-travel-restrictions-amid-fresh-outbreak.html) I mean, look at the pictures, it looks like an apocalypse Hollywood movie