There have been a few of these expanding patterns (roughly defined) over the last few days. All have resolved to downside. Can lightning strike again is $64k question.
if you look at the daily chart, the chart implies we bust through the highs and make new highs from past price patterns, this type of distrubutive pattern you posted is very characteristic of ES, it could progress higher or lower, but what seems to be more probable is we have to test 1552 in the future. At that point, MM's can decide what course to take, but easiest course is to fade the macro economic implications of the reports. Since retail will be looking at the reports to short it, they can just swing it higher and higher and kill everyones stops before bringing it down.
the other question becomes, why even bring it down?...