Stocks Rally as NQ-100 & Proxies Project August 17th Peak! Weekly Trend in Focus.
08-12-26 – “Stock indexes rallied sharply after fulfilling the outlook for a spike low on July 28/29th (when the NQ-100 fulfilled its primary downside target near 27,400/NQU) and the onset of a subsequent multi-week rally. That was forecast to spur multiple indexes to new all-time highs.
The late-July lows fulfilled a ~4-month low-low-(low) Cycle Progression that already included significant bottoms in late-Nov ’25 & late-March ’26.
It projects multi-month focus to late-Nov ’26.
(An intervening low at the midpoint – in late-Sept ’26 – is also a possibility.)
That low was/is forecast to trigger an overall rally into August xx/xx – the ideal time (date with greatest synergy of converging cycles) for the next multi-week peak to take hold.
The new intra-month trends remain neutral (except for S+P Midcap 400). It would take daily closes above the August 5th highs to turn those trends up and to project additional upside…
The key to the 1 – 3-month outlook is the weekly trend in the NQ-100. On the August 7th weekly close, the NQ-100 triggered the first neutral signal against the new weekly downtrend. The earliest it could turn that trend back up is August 21st (trigger point is not yet established). So, the next ~9 days are pivotal.
On a weekly basis, the NQ-100 bottomed right at its multi-month downside target and its rising weekly 21 Low MAC in late-July ’26… The weekly trends remain positive in most other indexes, and the daily trend already turned up in the NQ-100, so price action remains mostly positive into mid-month.
[There is also an important weekly Cycle Progression coming into play in an oft-cited ‘proxy’ stock (NVDA) that peaks on August 17 – 21, ’26.]” TRADING INVOLVES SUBSTANTIAL RISK!
The NQ-100 set a multi-month (or longer) peak in June ‘26 in lockstep with what was described in 1Q ’26. It quickly triggered reinforcing sell signals that projected an overall decline into late-July ’26 and to multi-month support at ~27,400/NQ… followed by a reactive 2 – 3-week rally in August ’26. The NQ-100 attacked ~27,400 on July 29th – precisely fulfilling that analysis.
This decline is ‘casting shadows ahead’ to September ’26… and then to an even more decisive period in 4Q ‘26!
On an intra-year basis, Stock Indexes surged from a powerful convergence of daily, weekly & monthly Cycle Progressions and timing indicators that projected (well in advance) a multi-month bottom on March 30, ’26. That set the stage for the remainder of 2026 and provided some revealing clues for Sept – Nov ‘26 – including the likely timing of future multi-month lows. As described in late-March ’26:
3-30-26 – “Stock Indices are fulfilling the outlook for a large sell-off in March ’26… They have stretched their declines into the late-March/early-April ’26 time frame – the ideal ~2-week period for a 1 – 2 month low to take hold… A low on March 30 – April 3, ’26 would also fulfill a ~51-week low (Apr 24 – 28 ’23) – low (Apr 15 – 19, ’24) – low (Apr 7 – 11, ’25) – (low; March 30 – April 2, ’26) Cycle Progression.
All things (timing indicators) considered, March 30th is the ideal date for an intermediate low…
The DJTA (Transportation Average) is reinforcing this… it turned its daily trend up… portending a quick, reactive 2 – 3 day pullback before a larger rally. The 3rd day of that reactive 2 – 3-day pullback is today – March 30th. It has not even neutralized its daily uptrend, reinforcing the potential for a secondary low and the onset of a larger advance.”
How Does Late-July NQ Low Reinforce Sept AND Nov ’26 Cycles?
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