The event-driven and gap-ridden selloff during the first week of 2016 befits the personality of the wave E of a triangle (
Chart 1). SP500 is due to deliver a second death cross early next week, following a short-lived golden cross (
Chart 2). Furthermore,
most benchmark indexes have now breached their August/September 2015 low, with the exception of the very large cap indexes (
Chart 3). But a low, if not the low, is in sight (
Chart 4).