Mars Market Update: February 16th, 2026 – Churn continues

Last week, equity markets failed to extend higher despite the economic tailwinds of stronger employment, softening inflation and lower rates. While there are enough waves in place to complete the 5 wave rally, there is no confirmation of a bearish change in trend given the overlapping corrective decline. Primary trend support for the Nasdaq and […]

Mars Market Update: February 9th, 2026 – Churning Higher

Last week, equity markets corrected lower before rebounding strongly as primary trend support continued to hold. The corrective 3 wave decline and subsequent strong rally keeps the door open to a bull market continuation to new ATH's. Interestingly, the DJIA and Russell continue to lead the late stages of this rally while above 50 day […]

Mars Market Update: February 2nd, 2026 – Reversal Risk

Last week, equities continued to churn higher but the rally was not clearly impulsive as the SPX / ES pushed to marginal new ATH's unconfirmed by the Nasdaq indices (bearish inter-market divergence). The question is whether it formed a rare expanding ending diagonal top or wave (b) headfake top as part of an ongoing bull […]

Mars Market Update: January 26th, 2026 – Corrective Decline

Last week, equity markets corrected lower with no confirmation of a bearish change in trend. The benchmark SPX continues to hold 50 day sma trend support and retains the bullish potential to extend higher. The key Nasdaq indices remain within triangle consolidations with the potential for a wave 5 of (5) rally to new ATH's. […]

Mars Market Update: January 19th, 2026 – Trend Exhaustion?

Last week, equity markets extended marginally higher but the overlapping nature of the rally warns that the bull trend is exhausting in an ending diagonal (wedge) top. The benchmark SPX / ES has enough waves in place to potentially complete the 2025 rally but there is no confirmation of a tradable top. We remain alert […]