Any thoughts based on the charts?
I like your optimistic pessimism but I'm more pessimistic than you. If Asia slows down any more than it is now due to the impact of the resurgent covid there, I expect a March 2020 like drop sooner than the "expected" Q1 2022 crash. Over a decade or more it's an irrelevant anomaly, but for anyone looking to permanently drink margaritas under palm trees in the next 3-5 years, it's a big deal.Not sure that it's possible to get a "top" with the Fed printing a hundred billion per month. Are family offices and pension funds with 30 year horizons going to dump shares en masse to slowly lose money in Treasuries or cash? At most we'll see a temporary pause, and probably not even that.
I expect a March 2020 like drop
I agree with talking heads re if we do get a minor correction the initial target for s&p is 50sma. Only if it loses 100sma then may turn into major drop.
Doubt the significance of 100 MA. Mr. Market will "hang in there" until at least the 200 MA.
Main thing is remember it has bounced off the 50 repeatedly.