Channel Breakdown in Stocks

Stocks got smashed, in an apparent channel breakdown. We mentioned that this may come due to the unwillingness of the S&P to break out of this pattern, and how it was hugging the lower bound of the channel, but unable to do much more than that. We have retraced about 50% of the channel height, which is a pretty good target. We hit 3617 and retraced to 3660. It is likely to hover around here due to low liquidity as we approach the holidays. Watch for a recovery if there is good news on stimulus talks