Yesterday’s action was just dawdling until the final hour, when the weakest of impulse legs popped up on the lesser charts. This obliges us to carry at least a faintly bullish bias into the fray today, although we needn’t ratchet up the enthusiasm unless 1187.00 is decisively exceeded intraday, or better yet on a closing basis. That’s the midpoint resistance of the pattern shown, and if it gets roundly thrashed we should infer that buyers are intent on 1199.75, its ‘D’ sibling. _______ UPDATE (1:06 a.m. EDT):  The futures were getting manipulated lower early Wednesday morning, targeted on 1172.00, or perhaps 1167.25 if it’s breached. That second number would make a dandy place to go bottom-fishing were it not precisely coincident with a key low recorded last Thursday.