December 4, 2025, an S&P 500 Peak?

The 11/23/25 blog “Is History Repeating” illustrated the similarities between the S&P 500 (SPX) decline in November 2021 and November 2025 and noted.

 “Intraday momentum supports the bullish scenario.  The 30 – minute RSI has several bullish divergences implying that the selling is exhausted.  There’s a good chance SPX could rally in the next few trading days”.

Subsequently there was a sharp rally during the week of 11/24/25 to 11/28/25.  Daily momentum evidence also shows that the SPX late 2025 action is like early 2025.

The daily $SPX – StockCharts.com chart compares early 2025 with late 2025. 

Note that in November 2025, for the first time since April – MACD lines have gone below the “zero” level.  Prior to this instance, MACD lines were below “zero” in early 2025. On 01/16/25 MACD lines had a bullish cross, five trading days later SPX made a short-term peak.

On 11/26/25 MACD lines had a bullish cross.  Daily Slow Stochastic lines on that day had yet to reach the overbought zone above 80.00 which implies more upside-price action.

Five trading days after 11/26/25 targets 12/04/25 as a potential SPX peak.

The daily SPX chart courtesy of Trading View shows additional reasons why a peak could be made on 12/04/25.

The 11/01/25 blog “Bullish Pieces of an Elliott Wave Puzzle” illustrated that the 1.618 inverse Fibonacci ratio of the February to April decline targeted SPX 6,958.48 as a potential important peak.  If the SPX continues to rise it could easily reach this level on 12/04/25.   

Markets can occasionally turn on Full/New Moons plus or minus two trading days.  The 10/06/25 blog noted a Full Moon on 10/07/25, the SPX peaked on 10/09/25.  The next trading day there was a micro crash. 

On 11/20/25 there was a New Moon.  The next trading day, 11/21/25, SPX bottomed out.

12/04/25 is a Full Moon and if the SPX rises into this date, it would be eight – trading days after the 11/21/25 bottom.  On 01/13/25 SPX bottomed out, eight days later SPX peaked on 01/24/25.

Please note the late January 2025 top was not the ultimate peak, which occurred on 02/19/25.  If this scenario repeats in December 2025, the final top may not be in place until the cusp of the new year. 

Published by Mark Rivest

Independent investment advisor, trader, and writer. Articles have appeared on Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities , Traders.com Advantage, Futuresmag.com, and Finance Magnates.

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