What is the near/longer term direction of the market?
Here's my take
I believe we are and will be in a "trader's market for the foreseeable future. This can be an excellent environment to make make in provided you manage risk by picking your entries judiciously.
From an Elliot wave perspective I think we are at an important fib level in the context of the current corrective wave as I see it.
I believe we have reached the peak of the b wave subdivision of b. This level is at the .618 fib level of the larger channel that we are in. From a risk perspective I think we can use the Groundhog's Day high or one marginal new high with a firm rejection as a stop point for this proposed scenario as laid out in the chart.
I am bullish on an intermediate term basis with one more sizeable sell-off that will set us up for a nice bull move to the ES 4500 area.
Good trading to you.