As of the close of Fri. Dec. 16, 2016, the market is immediately in a bearish posture near-term for now on the daily level warning caution should be taken especially since it's trading below the December 2015 high. Dow Jones Industrials closed today at 1984341 and is trading up about 13% for the year from last year's closing of 1742503. Thus far, we have been trading down for the past 2 days, but this has been an inside trading session warning caution following the high established Wed. Dec. 14, 2016.
On the weekly level, the last important high was established the week of December 12th at 1996643, which was up 6 weeks from the low made back during the week of October 31st. We have been generally trading up since the low made week of October 31st at 1788356 for the past 6 weeks, which has been a significant move of 11% percent in a stark panic type advance. The broader perspective, this current rally into the week of December 12th reaching 1996643 has exceeded the previous high of 1844988 made back during the week of September 19th. We have seen a rally so far from the last low of 1788356 for the past 6 weeks. Only a break of that low would signal a technical reversal of fortune, however, the market remains strong at this time. Right now, the market is above momentum on our weekly models hinting this is still bullish for now as well as trend, long-term trend, and cyclical strength. Looking at this from a wider perspective, this market has been trading up for the past 13 weeks overall. Interestingly, the Dow Jones Industrials has been in a bullish phase for the past 15 months since the low established back in August 2015.
Some caution is necessary since the last high 1835136 was important given we did obtain two sell signals from that event established during May 2015. Critical support still underlies this market at 1561754 and a break of that level on a monthly closing basis would warn of a further decline ahead becomes possible. Subsequently, the market made a low in August 2015 at 1537033 electing four buy signals from that event. This warns that the trend is robust moving forward. Currently, this market remains in an uptrend posture on all our indicators looking at the weekly level. We see here the trend has been moving up for the past 6 weeks. The last weekly level low was 1788356, which formed during the week of October 31st. The last high on the weekly level was 1996643, which was created during the week of December 12th. On a broader perspective, this market remains in an uptrend posture on all our indicators looking at the monthly level. We see here the trend has been moving up for the past 15 months. The last monthly level low was 1537033, which formed during August 2015, 2015. The last high on the monthly level was 1922529, which was created during November. We see that the trend should change come this month so pay attention to events ahead.