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WARNING: The Stock Market Correction Has Begun, Don't Be Fooled

Channel: Gareth Soloway Published: 2026-02-12 14:15
Gareth Soloway

Gareth Soloway argues that the stock market correction has already started, citing breakdowns in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, weak breadth, and a failure to hold gains after the jobs report. He expects more downside in the near term and says the market is entering a distribution phase rather than continuing the prior buy-the-dip pattern.

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Soloway opens by saying equities are falling sharply, alongside gold, silver, and Bitcoin, and frames this as a broad de-risking move. He says he has been warning for weeks that the charts were signaling trouble, and presents the day’s selloff as confirmation rather than a one-day event. The main technical argument is that the S&P 500 has broken a key rising trend line drawn from the April low and is now failing underneath resistance, with smaller and smaller bounces before breakdown, which he labels classic distribution. He says the S&P’s immediate downside target is around 6,500, with a larger target around 6,100, referencing prior highs from late 2024 and early 2025 as support/resistance pivots. He makes a similar case for the Nasdaq, saying it has already broken its comparable trend structure and could ultimately move back toward the 17,000 area. …

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Main takeaways

  1. The speaker’s base case is that a correction is underway, not just a single bad session.
  2. He treats the S&P 500’s break of its April trend line as the key technical trigger.
  3. The Nasdaq is described as already weaker than the Dow, with more downside implied.
  4. Bond-market behavior is used to argue the jobs report did not truly validate economic strength.
  5. Walmart’s relative strength is interpreted as a warning sign for consumer health.
  6. His framework is almost entirely chart-driven, with little emphasis on valuation or earnings.

Market read by horizon

Short term

Tactically bearish: the indices have broken key support and he expects the current decline to extend over the next several sessions unless major resistance is reclaimed quickly.

  • He expects the current selloff to continue over multiple days rather than reverse quickly.
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  • Immediate S&P downside target: around 6,500 first, then roughly 6,100 if weakness persists.
  • Nasdaq weakness is already confirmed in his view; he sees further downside if the broken trend does not recover.
Mid term

Base case is a multi-week correction with failed rebounds and worsening breadth; a recovery would require the S&P and Nasdaq to reclaim the broken trend lines, otherwise lower targets stay in play.

  • Over the next several weeks to months, he expects the market to transition from a buy-the-dip pattern to a distribution/correction phase.
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  • His base case is continued lower highs and failed rallies until key resistance is reclaimed.
  • For the S&P, a move back above the broken trend structure would be needed to invalidate the bearish setup.
Long term

Structurally, he thinks the long-running buy-the-dip regime is fading and that market leadership is shifting into a more fragile, distribution-driven environment where technical breakdowns can persist.

  • He implies the post-COVID era of repeated V-bottom recoveries may be ending as a structural trading regime.
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  • His long-term thesis is that institutional distribution can overwhelm retail buy-the-dip behavior after a prolonged run-up.
  • The broader implication is that the market may be entering a more fragile regime where technical levels matter more than bullish narratives.
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Key claims (7)

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BEARISH market correction U.S. equities

The stock market correction has already begun.

He frames the current move as the start of a correction rather than a one-day dip.

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BEARISH trend break S&P 500

The S&P 500 has broken a key rising trend line from the April low, signaling further downside.

He repeatedly uses the broken April trend line as the main technical trigger for the bearish call.

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BEARISH price target S&P 500

The S&P 500’s first major downside target is around 6,100 after an initial move toward 6,500.

He gives explicit chart-based downside levels.

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Assets discussed (12)

S&P 500 — SPY
BEARISH index

He says it is down sharply, has broken a key trend line from the April low, and has downside targets around 6,500 and 6,100.

Nasdaq — QQQ
BEARISH index

He says the Nasdaq has also broken its comparable trend structure and could eventually move toward 17,000.

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Where this transcript pushes against consensus

  • He treats the jobs report as effectively suspect or possibly fabricated based on neat upside surprises, but provides no direct evidence beyond market reaction and pattern suspicion.
  • He infers institutional selling and retail dumping from price structure alone; that interpretation is plausible but not directly proven in the transcript.
  • The claim that the bond market proves the jobs report is wrong is overstated: yield moves can reflect multiple factors, not only credibility of the data.
  • Using Walmart at all-time highs as a bearish macro signal is suggestive, but the causal link to broad consumer weakness is indirect.
  • He gives precise downside targets while also emphasizing uncertainty, but the targets are derived mainly from chart structure rather than fresh fundamental deterioration.
  • The repeated emphasis on charts being unbiased is more philosophical than evidentiary and does not by itself validate the forecast.

Topics

S&P 500 technical breakdownNasdaq trend failureDow relative strength10-year Treasury yieldjobs report skepticismdistribution phaseconsumer stressWalmart all-time highsbuy-the-dip regimemarket correction

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