Whip-sawed!

When the Trend Suddenly Reverses

I will be the first to admit - I was whip-sawed.

Ken Griffin’s (Citadel Securities) sudden move to buy out the failing/margin called positions at hedge fund Situational Awareness took the markets by shock.

I was watching the S&P 500 trend lower as institutional money rotated away from the AI theme. I even used Fibonacci math and arrived at some possible S&P 500 targets. What I was looking at was a Bayer’s Rule #11-A projection from the June 2 S&P high. This projection pointed to July 31-August 1. A few days after this projected date I saw the 243-day and 88-day dominant cycles ending. Moreover, I was looking at the natal historical Mercury heliocentric latitude at +/- 1.5 degrees that was due on August 7.

I parsed all this data through my mind and concluded that we were headed for an S&P interim low around 7100-7200.

So, how then did human emotion suddenly pivot from negative to wildly optimistic?

The answer has to do with something I wrote about in my 2026 Almanac. That something was the Torque Index...