My mom bought me and my brother a Slip and Slide when we were kids in Beverly Hills.
We had a pool in the backyard. But when the neighborhood kids came over, we all played Slip and Slide instead.
You remember the game. Fill up that crappy plastic rollout thing with a hose. Dive onto it. Slide down with zero friction.
Here's what I remember most.
Once you started sliding, you couldn't stop. No torque. No brakes. You just kept going until you hit the end.
I've been trading for 38 years. The market setup right now reminds me of standing at the top of that plastic sheet, watching the water flow.
January's going to be that same ride. Once the weekly MACD breaks and algos stop defending, there's no stopping the slide.
That's exactly why I built the Genesis Cog.
Most traders wait until they're already sliding to react. By then, there's no torque to stop the damage.
The Cog tracks weekly divergences before they break. It shows you when algorithmic defense is about to flip into algorithmic attack.
December's window dressing won't last forever. When January hits and fund managers stop propping up year-end numbers, the slip begins.
👉 SEE HOW THE COG DETECTS THE SETUP BEFORE THE SLIDE STARTS →
The Daily Misleads You. The Weekly Tells The Truth.
The daily setup on the S&P looks bearish. But bearish isn't lethal.
A correction within a longer-term upward trend channel isn't the end of the world. The weekly chart tells a different story.
The secret sauce to this market is the weekly MACD. That's the trick nobody wants to tell you.
Stop obsessing over hourly candles.
The weekly MACD shows bearish divergences building. Market makes higher highs while the indicator makes lower highs.
That pattern rarely fails to materialize.
When the MACD breaks underneath on the weekly and daily simultaneously, you get that correction the market's been delaying. The slip begins.
Right now the powers that be won't let it happen. The algos will defend through December.
Window dressing requires keeping prices elevated so fund managers can report acceptable fourth quarter numbers.
But December protection has an expiration date.
January Removes The Safety Net
When you start the slate clean next year, the dynamics shift completely.
No rate cut in front of you until spring. A potential new Fed chairman creating uncertainty.
The cauldron of unknowns that fund managers hate.
Money managers don't need to own anything in January. They're not defending year-end performance anymore.
So they sell literally everything that's up.
They rotate to defensive positions. They start realizing we're not in a recession yet, but we're getting closer every day.
Plot the line on your weekly chart. Just follow my lead.
When you break underneath that line, the slip and slide begins.
You're gonna slide. You're gonna slip. Then you're gonna get that bullish dipper mindset and buy the dip like December taught you.
That's where you get nailed.
The Dip Buyers Will Learn The Hard Way
We take out 6,600 and you're gonna rue the day.
Once you start sliding down that Slip and Slide, there's no torque that's gonna reverse it. It just keeps going.
You can't stop it.
The dippers will try. They'll buy at 6,500 expecting the bounce that worked in December.
It won't come.
They'll buy at 6,400 doubling down. Still sliding. They'll buy at 6,200 because they're pot-committed.
That's how accounts blow up. Not through one catastrophic mistake. Through fighting a pattern you should have recognized and avoided.
I don't wait to buy the dip. I wait until it breaks.
When it breaks, it opens a trap door for a tremendous 45-degree angle down.
When's it gonna happen? I don't know exactly. But the setup is there on the weekly.
The bearish divergences are building. I'm waiting until we get past this year.
If it happens next week, I wouldn't be surprised. Nothing in this business surprises me anymore.
People make the dumbest decisions at the wrong times.
The slip and slide week is coming. It's gonna take this market out and undo it.
You can keep buying dips until there's nothing left to buy with. Or you can step off the plastic before it's too late.
The Genesis COG System tracks when these weekly divergences break and the slide begins. It identifies the moment algorithmic defense turns into algorithmic attack.
See how Genesis COG detects when the weekly setup breaks →
Professor Jeffrey Bierman
Creator of the Genesis COG System