This index here is a great example. You can see how the market has proven that there is more supply than demand for stocks at these levels above current prices.
While the longer-term trend remains up for the NYSE composite, from any short-term to intermediate-term, prices are still in a range, at best:
Meanwhile, underneath the surface, the healthiest markets tend to see more than 60% of stocks above their 200 day moving average.
There's nothing magical about the 200 day, but I look at it as a cheat code to define whether a stock is in an uptrend or not, particularly when we're aggregating the data from a lot of stocks at the same time.
The % of stocks above their 200 day bottomed out a couple of weeks ago, but there's little evidence that those lows were it for this cycle.
Getting back above 60% here is an essential piece to a resumption of this uptrend in the Stock Market.
Finally, Bitcoin has been a great example of stuck below overhead supply.
As soon as BTC fell below 90,000, resistance has been the theme.
Longer-term, BTC remains above 70,000 which represents those former cycle higher. But shorter-term, BTC is below 90,000 which represents short-term to intermediate-term resistance.
Here's a closer look at Bitcoin trying to find support at the 61.8% retracement of the entire bounce this month:
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