I won’t reiterate the crucial importance of the Hidden Pivot resistance at 1144.50 other than to note that a decisive move above it would imply the futures are enroute to 1244.50 — exactly $100 higher.  They’ve  slightly surpassed the pivot intraday, but we should like to see a two-day close above it, or an intraday move touching, say, 1151.00, before we infer that the bull has broken loose from his pen. More immediately, we can gauge the strength of buying by monitoring resistance at 1142.80, the midpoint pivot of the pattern shown. If it is bull-dozed, let us take encouragement, since that would imply more upside over the near term to 1159.60, the ‘D’ target with which it is associated.