S&P 500 futures intra-day after the close look to me as though this diamond top might break to the upside. If not on Thursday could be the end of the current choppy sideways ranging nonsense to nowhere - when the end of the diamond pattern would be reached one day before the very important start of the Jackson Hole meeting (where Yellen might give the market new clues for a direction).
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I was right 20 hours ago. The diamond top pattern broke to the upside today. It was quite a fast move which futures started after the close and before the European open and created a high around 2193.4.
But this new "mini-breakout" spike was sold off and fizzled again (with roughly only one hour left to the close of spot as of now:
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Same idea, but with candlesticks. Plus I added two rectangles just for fun:
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Many traders liked my chart, so here is the 1 hour chart:
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... and the daily chart again (with some symmetric improvements):