February Live Cattle
The February Live cattle futures managed a modest recovery in today’s action. Early week lows came in around the .382 retracement of the entire move and the .786 from the inner fourth wave extreme. This was touched upon in yesterday’s post. Also of note was the momentum divergence apparent in the smaller time-frame price charts. All of this coming together produced what appears to be a minor 5 wave structured rally. This move to me would need to be categorized as an (a) wave or a (i) wave of a larger sequence. I am favoring the (a) wave labeling. This would put me on the lookout for a minor (b) wave retracement which in turn would give way to a (c) wave advance to complete the structure. Normal projections suggest a 1 x 1 to 1.618 to 1 relationship to the (a) advance. Pullback approximations fall between .618 and .786 from the 124.875 high. Mid range level puts the number at +/-123.250 which coincides with today’s open. If this were to play out I’d be suggesting a modest long position with a stop loss under the most recent low equating to a .60 stop risk. Projecting the extension targets from the low of pullback which fell into this target zone would produce an upside projection zone between 125.5 to 126.8 +/-. Cross zone resistance rests at +/-126.300. I’d be targeting this location. This equates to a favorable 5 to 1 risk reward. Obviously a few things have to fall into place. This is all a process in planning the trade and trading the plan.
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