Prior to 6:00 am, the SPX futures were up to 1960.00, a near-50% retracement of yesterday’s decline. Then something happened. “S&P 500 e-mini futures have been halted twice (0551ET and 0612ET) in what one market observer exclaimed "looks like manipulation to me." So what exactly happened at 6:12am?”

Selling has begun in earnest and the Premarket is down, after appositive night prior to 6:00 am.

This places me in a quandary about the Cycles. As I have the daily chart marked, Assuming that August 24 is the Master Cycle low (251 days), the (A)-(B)-(C) pattern suggests a very large Wave (C) having just started. That should go to an October 15 low, in time for the next master Cycle bottom.

However, the Diamond formation is not yet complete and is more likely than not to have met its target within the same Cycle decline. If the Diamond formation target can be met in the next 3-5 days, we may have a late Master Cycle (possibly 271 days) early next week in a 5- Wave Leading Diagonal instead of the aforementioned one, as I have annotated on the chart.

Regardless how this all works out, the October 15 master Cycle low appears to be even more certain and deadly. As Bloomberg reports, “It may seem like only yesterday that the U.S. government shut down (actually, it was 2013), followed by promises from Republicans and Democrats alike: Never again.

Turns out never again may be next month.

Inside the Obama administration there is growing concern that Congress will be unable to resolve differences over the U.S. budget by Oct. 1, the start of the 2016 fiscal year, and will stumble into a shutdown though Republican leaders insist they don’t want one. Already, both sides have begun public relations campaigns to pin blame on the other.”

To make matters worse, it appears that TNX just doesn’t want to decline, despite the sell-off in stocks. Should it break back above the 50-day Moving Average at 22.24, it may also break above its Cycle Top resistance at 23.00. TYX is also edging back toward 30.00, which is what put the fear of a rate hike back on the table. Remember, the Feds follow the market, however reluctantly.

Strangely enough, the USD may be headed for a Master Cycle low in mid-October, as well. The August 24 low may not be the end of that decline, as the USD retracement has stalled precisely at the 50-day Moving Average at 96.66. Instead, it may be a Wave [i] of an Ending Diagonal that could decline to as low as 85.00. This would seem to agree with the notion that a government shutdown is being anticipated.

I will be following these developments with an eye to breaking the impasse between the two alternate views.

Regards,

Tony

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