The futures spent the day jabbing, sticking, bobbing and weaving immediately above and below the 1387.40 threshold where I’d said bulls would start to come alive. How odd, then that they achieved little more than that in the space of six hours. So that we don’t get sucked in, let’s raise the bar today to 1396.40, a tick above a commanding peak on the hourly chart and the point where the bullish impulse would be revitalized. On the off-chance that the bad guys beat the futures down hard, you could try bottom-fishing at 1371.60 with a stop-loss as tight as four ticks.