Pushing at the Top of Resistance

A picture's worth a thousand words - so I offer you TWO thousand words today. The charts speak for themselves. Here is the S&P MidCap 400:


.....and the Russell 2000......


Notice in particular the progressive breakouts in the Russell 2000, and how each one is shorter-lived and weaker than the prior one. These breakouts are indicated by the horizontal lines you see drawn four times on the graph.