With the S&P looking vulnerable, will stocks retest the August lows?
For insights we turned to John Bollinger, president of bollingerbands.com who tells us - in a nutshell he says yes, we will retest the lows.
But he also says that technical signs suggset the lows should hold.
The trouble, he says, is that too many investors expected the stock market to just bounce and historically that’s not what happens.
”Typically the market makes 'W' bottoms, we make a low bounce and re-test the low bounce and re-test again,” he says.
He thinks this pullback could provide an important - and potentially bullish tell.
”As we pull back we'll be finding out if people will again buy stocks at the August lows (of about 1120 on the S&P).” How it plays out over the next 3-4 days will be critical, he adds.
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