The theme for this week is Fed Watch for Wednesday afternoon, and an advance look at 4Q GDP on Friday, with earnings before and after the bell all week.
The bulls are working that bottom formation and it will run if they get the breakout. Notice the failure of a similar pattern about a week ago.
This can go either way. It may not give a clear signal until after the FOMC decision, unless 'something happens.'
"The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse."
R. J. Rummel, Mass Murder and Genocide, 1994