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US 10 Year Treasury Yield: What's Next?Quick Analysis on 10 Year Treasury Yield on a 1M Linear Chart. 1) The US 10 Year Treasury Yield has been respecting a falling channel for multiple decades going back to the 1980s. 2) It is currently headed to the top trendline of the channel with a possibility to break in the coming months. 3) The measured move of the falling channel would bring it back to Pre-2008 ranges. 4) This may fall in line with the US Dollar strengthening (in the idea section below). 5) If US 10 Year Treasury Yield goes lower, there is not much more room for it to get to 0. What are your opinions on this? If you enjoy my ideas, feel free to like it and drop in a comment. I love reading your comments below. Disclosure: This is just my opinion and not any type of financial advice. I enjoy charting and discussing technical analysis. Don't trade based on my advice. Do your own research! #cryptopickk
TVC:TNX
by MillionaireEconomics
17
XAUUSD Bearish biasHello dear traders, I think gold will continue forming lower lows on its way to the weekly demand zone of 1590-1570 area. I have draw paths of possible impulse as break and retest areas. For bullish reversal, I want to see a clear break of 1660 zone with price action retest. Dollar is getting stronger and stronger with this solid and aggressive FED policy and the continuous rising yields. However, the global economy is not at the normal levels, so this USD strength might get exhausted after December. You can share your ideas on the comments!!! Good luck!
FX_IDC:XAUUSDShort
by The_Forex_Path
2
USD Focus Fed Minutes USD CPIHi, and welcome to Wednesday’s update. Today we are looking at the USD, and it’s hard not to focus on the dollar with all the key news that’s on the way. From tonight, 11:30 local time (AEDT), we have PPI followed by the Fed minutes at 5:00 am and US CPI data at 11:30 pm to cap it off. The CPI data being released will be both the M/M EXP 0.2% and the Y/Y EXP 8.1%. This could be an important period for the markets. The last Fed minutes shocked the markets, and CPI came in hotter than expected. These surprises led to extended moves lower on risk markets and solid a rally on the USD. Will we see a repeat this time? As noted, it is going to come down to what’s released. CPI beats expectations. Fed remains hawkish we see the USD rallying. If CPI misses and the Fed message is not as hard as we have seen, we could see some selling and a move higher from risk markets like we saw just over a week ago. Are we starting to see a small bull trap on the USD? Don't discount the chance of softer minutes or a CPI miss that rattles the cage. It is definitely going to be an interesting period to watch traders from now until Thursday night local time. We like to hear from you, so please feel free to drop us a comment. We also run weekly webinars with guest analysts. Good trading.
EIGHTCAP:USDX
by Eightcap
SPX500 is trying to find a bottomIn my opinion the market is trying to find a bottom. How far it will go down, Im not sure, but anything lower that 3450-ish, will take market to very oversold territory. Everyone is waiting for Thursday’s CPI, depending on the result this can go either way: 1. Inflation is rising - this means FED will be rise rates by 0.75 in November, strong move downside, but then it to go to oversold territory and we might stay there few days before slow recovery starts. I dont believe the earning season takes market above 4000. More realisticaly 3900-3950. 2. Inflation is going down- rising rates start to do the job, FED might slow down next month but we’re not out of the woods yet. Economies already slowed down, we might see recovery on the markets and USD to cool off a little. The only difference between 1 and 2 is when we start the recovery- this or next week. If you look at the VIX, it is pretty high, over 30. On a brick of being overbought. That makes me believe we can see some green candles in the next few weeks but after that I expect very red November. I can be wrong, the markets are unpredictable so dont treat it as trading advice. Im not a professional trader but I’ve been following indices closely in the last few months. Always do your own analisys
OANDA:SPX500USD
by Trinnisia_Trades
Thoughts on rates, bull markets, bear markets, and QEHey all, I wanted to post a few thoughts of the somewhat educational variety. Hopefully this will help with perspective on where we've been and why I continue to see equity market weakness for the extended and foreseeable future (1-3 years maybe). So starting with this chart, this is the 10 year US Treasury yield below and the S&P 500 index above going back to approx. 1980. It's log scale to make each asset more meaningfully represented. What we notice about the 10 year yield relative to equities throughout this ENTIRE 40+ year period is that it has been on a steady declining slope as the S&P has seen significant growth and gains. The numbers for each over this stretch are as follows. 10 Yr Yield High: 16% (nearly) in Sep '81 10 Yr Yield Low: .33% in March '20 S&P 500 Low: 100 (roughly) in March '80 S&P 500 High: 4820 in Jan '22 Actually this is really interesting and I didn't realize this till now running these numbers. The 10 year yield has contracted by 48x while the S&P 500 has gained 48x over the same period... A note on falling rate environments....they're bullish for stocks. We have been in this period of steadily lower rates over time to the tune of 48x and the stock market reflects this favorable environment with the exact same multiple in growth over the same period. Now, we all know that the FED is on a mission to tame inflation with higher interest rates..Take note of the 10 year low in Mar '20 of .33%. I believe that low will hold for the remainder of our trading careers as we see a period of steadily INCREASING rates to counter this 40 YEAR accommodative run. In the short-med term sure the FED is looking to boost into the 3-3.5% range for their target rate. Be advised that 3% is 6% shy of June CPI (9%) which puts us still in a REAL accommodative rate environment. They're gonna have to match inflation (with target rate) and then some to have it sustainably reverse course. CPI could come down as part of this process and I think it will. Let's say it fall to 6%. Better, right? We'd still need a fed target rate at 7% + to meaningfully throw water on inflationary forces. I guess what I'm saying is...3.5% is a neat target, but we'll have much higher to go beyond that. I see this as a give and take over the coming years as rates make new highs which puts equities in a tough position until this process plays out. I'm kind of looking at 2000-2003 period of multiple contraction post dot com bubble as a reference for this current environment. Sorry, the bottom is not in and it could take years to get there. Ok all that said I wanted to also clarify some things regarding Quantitative Easing and what it actually means when we say the Fed is "Printing" Money. The Fed engaged in QE first time around in November 2008. I remember pretty well as I was working in Midtown Manhattan for an asset management firm and we were in the thickest part of the financial crisis. CNBC was on perpetually for our desk of sales people...Anyway I see a lot of folks referencing FED printing and their balance sheet but often the context or implication of this concept is apparently misunderstood by many in TV chats and comments. Being a nerd, and having worked for the largest bond manager during the first QE, the firm was with was instrumental in helping guide the fed through that stretch...I'm gonna lay out how QE works for all to observe (if you are not clear already). Quantitative Easing (QE) is when the FED purchases US Treasuries and or US mortgage backed bonds from the open market. The real purpose of this strategy is to lower or maintain low borrowing rates for the US Gov, US mortgage borrowers (homeowners) and by extension bc the US Treasury is the benchmark, all debt and borrowing rates. QE is typically employed as a supplemental strategy once the actual FED target rate is at or near 0%...can't go lower right? Wrong, kinda....this is where the FED would likely utilize QE if rates at 0 but they still wanted to do more to stimulate growth/be accomodative. When the FED buys US treasuries or mortgage backs, it sends those yields lower. This rate influence impacts the entire bond and rates markets by extension as a lower benchmark bc there's a huge buyer of US bonds! the FED to the recent tune of $9 Trillion. I'll pose the question..."where'd they get the money?" They just kind of acted as if they had it....and bought the bonds...and held em. Without actually printing it, the impact of this is as if there were $9T more dollars in circulation and far more demand for treasuries than is reality.... They lowered interest rates without changing their target rate (which was already at 0%) and did so by theoretically "printing" the money to make the purchases. That's it, that's QE. Worth mentioning that we are now in QT (tightening) and they are selling those same bonds back effectively removing the "as if" $9T from circulation.....it never really was in circulation but QE simulates as if it were...This selling of US Treasuries and MBS is what they refer to as reducing or unwinding their balance sheet. $95 B/ month currently I believe.. Bear in mind that these sales will have the opposite impact on rates as the purchases so while the fed is raising their target rate 50-75bps per meeting, there is an additional impact on the bond market from QT.... If you read this far my hat's off to you. Hopefully someone learned something...thanks ~B
TVC:US10Y
by Alt-B
43
A traders’ week ahead playbook – a slave to price action After a brutal week/month for risky assets, we turn the page and look to trade all the grenades that are thrown at us in the new week – the dynamic remains one of further fundamental downside risk, amid technically oversold conditions, which suggests any resemblance of good/less bad news should see pronounced upside moves. That said, much will need to go right for risk hedges to be partly unwound and risky assets to bounce – better growth-focused economic data, inflation expectations headed lower but also US real rates will need to turn lower and promote a deeper sell-off in the USD - after the moves in US 5yr real rates last week (+37bp to 1.97%), this is a big ask. Rates volatility did pull back a touch on Thursday and Friday and we will need to see that follow through to cause a real turn in risky assets. One trading consideration I see is that mean reversion may work better this week across asset classes, and we’re already seeing signs of that in FX markets – In equity indices, we see the US500 is tracking over 10% from its 50-day MA (see the middle pane) – take out the ferocious moves in March 2020 and this is over 3 standard deviations from the long-run average. Market internals is shot to pieces with 1.7% of S&P500 co’s above their 20-day MA, 32% of co’s with an RSI below 30, and 35% of co’s at new 4-week lows. This ultra-bearish sentiment plays into the risk v reward trade-off, and it suggests if we hear something remotely positive, and we see better flow, the result will be a pronounced equity counter-rally, and this may incentives funds to reduce USD longs as the default equity hedge. Conversely, it could also be another brutal week, and one suspects if it is it will get truly ugly and see market chatter around coordinated policy response increase – liquidity remains a core consideration that exacerbates moves as funds try and get out of positions – spreads in the underlying market have widened in response and the cost to trade for institutional funds has increased. In this backdrop it pays to take the timeframe down, understand that markets can turn on a dime and on little news and quite often these moves make little sense – nail your position size, have an open mind, and react with intent – this will serve you well and keep you in the game. While we watch the USD, US real rates, the Fed’s balance sheet dynamics and measures of volatility, we assess the key known event risks traders need to navigate portfolio through this week. The week ahead: Aussie home loan values (Tuesday 11:30 AEDT) – the data is unlikely to be too impactful on the AUS200 or AUD, but the cooling in lending is a big macro consideration – this is not just indicative of a slowdown in the demand for loans for residential property, but also business loans – The market expects home loan values to fall 3% in August, with owner-occupier loans seeing the bigger falls -3.5%. RBA meeting (Tuesday 14:30 AEDT) – the market prices a hike of 44bp, with 16/21 economists calling for the 50bp hike, so a 50bp is largely priced – We look at pricing for the November RBA meeting and see this is finely balanced at 35bp, where I lean towards a 25bp hike - we see that expectations are that the RBA cash rate pushes to 4.10% by June ‘23 – this is the ‘terminal’ pricing. AUDUSD 1-week implied volatility is close to 52-week highs, so the market looks for movement and this suggests reduced position size. Given the sky-high correlation between the AUD and equities, where the S&P500 futures trade, AUDUSD will follow. RBNZ meeting – (Wed 12:00 AEDT) – the market prices 52bp of hikes for the meeting, with the economist’s consensus firmly aligned – NZDUSD was destroyed on Friday (-2.3%), closing below 0.5600 – similar to the AUDUSD, NZDUSD will just track the US500 – keeping an open mind on the direction of play in the US500, with sentiment shot to pieces, but it can easily get worse. UK Tory party conference (2-5 Oct) – all eyes on chancellor Kwarteng’s speech on Monday (16:00 BST / 02:00 AEDT) – the situation in UK politics is fluid and the inability of the Truss govt to connect with the capital markets is telling – GBPUSD traded an 884-pip range last week, and the reversal from <1.0500 caught a lot of momentum driven accounts off guard. Moves from the BoE to temporarily buy 20yr+ gilts and portray a monster rate hike in Nov have reduced cable vol, but we also know the bond-buying program is supposedly a stop-gap measure – there is no easy trade here – fundamentally, the bear case in GBP looks strongest, but technically there’s a two-way risk. OPEC meeting (Wed) – the first in-person meeting since March 2020, it could be lively and one for crude trade to put on the radar - talk of output cuts to the tune of 0.5-1.0 million BPD is making waves, with Russia pushing for a 1m barrel cut – as always we react to news flow here – I like a re-test of the Sept lows of $76.22, but the bigger the output cut, the less likely the lows will be hit. US ISM manufacturing (Tue 01:00 AEDT) – the market looks for the diffusion index to print 52.1 (from 52.8), where we look into the sub-components for real context, notably the ‘prices paid’ and ‘supplier delivery’ sub-surveys – however, unless we see the headline index below 50.0 it shouldn’t cause any major ripples, but with sentiment so shot the unexpected can easily rip. US JOLTS report (Wed 01:00 AEDT) – with the US labour market such a hot topic, we go into the labour report expecting 11.075M jobs openings. This would be a modest decline from the 11.239m job openings we saw in July – risky assets would find relief buying/short covering on a below consensus number, although we’d need a dramatic downside miss to really get the party started. A hotter number would be a USD positive and see fresh lows in the US500/NAS100. ISM services – not typically a market mover, but we are watching to see if the service sector shows any clearer signs of fragility – the consensus expects a read of 56.0 in September (from 56.9), which if comes to fruition is still solid expansion and supportive of risky assets. US Non-farm payrolls (Fri 23:30 AEDT) – the marquee (known) event risk of the week – the consensus expects 250k jobs to be created, with the economists forecast range seen between +389k to 200k – perversely, a number below 200k would likely be taken as a positive for risky assets and would pull the USD lower. We also consider the unemployment rate with the consensus expecting this to remain at 3.7% - with inflation still top of mind, average hourly wages are expected at 5.1% (from 5.2%), so ahead of the Sept CPI print (13 Oct – expecting headline CPI to print 8.1%), the wage data could be influential. Risky assets (like equities) would find buyers on a sub-5% print. 14 Fed speakers – hard to see too much change from the recent Fed chatter but there has been some cooling of inflation expectations, amid the tighter financial conditions, so any acknowledgement of these moves could be positive for risk. Rates markets are signaling we are closer to a top if rate hikes. ECB president Lagarde speaks (Tue 2 am) – we price 70bp of hikes for the ECB’s Oct meeting, so we question if Christine Lagarde alters this pricing. Good luck to all
PEPPERSTONE:US500
by Pepperstone
2
SPY - Larger ContextLet's dispense with the Master O' Obvious stuff straight away. Pick an Adjective - it won't rhyme with Bullish. It may, however, be cringeworthy. NQ below 200 W SMA. What lay ahead remains up to 3588 for the ES Futures, *Note the 200SMA Weekly is just below this most important of level @ 3585.55. Powell - simple... NO CHANGE. ____________________________________________________________________________________ There has been a very orderly decline since The Terrible Tetons. The Monthly Gaps below remain wide open for Business, but - the Gaps above, not so much. It would take an extraordinary/non-binary Event to Fill those for now. We will see what further Fiscal attempts at remedy appear as we approach the Mid-Term Elections. I have November 7th as an important Pivot in Time, unsure as to why. It is however extremely significant as it keeps making appearances in Time on a great many studies. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Risks remain to the downside Short Term. Intermediate-Term will depend on an October Communique from the Market Overlords aka "Behnchods". The Chart is self-explanatory / it illustrates the Risk / Reward clearly. What was most interesting this week was how Wall Street was extremely agile in positioning. Options positioning was done with extreme Velocity / Scope / Scale. Executed perfectly to cause maximum confusion until it was too late for the boat to right itself. They capsized small Specs, repeatedly by loading the woodshed on the Sell in record time. And then, proceeded to close out Open Interest as quickly as it appeared once Payment was secured. Unfortunately, the House continued to press the SELL once they'd squared @ 365.06 on the SPY. The VIX and SPX, ES, NQ, YM - Inverse Gamma Hedging was NOT unwound but pressed quite hard. Gold - Lower for the nearer term, it is a broken trade, it can RT, but it will fail. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Here was the Implied Skew and Range I calculated Thursday for the Friday Dance Mix: Call Skew ATM $ 53,140,489.00 384.94 43.41% 365.06 Range 19.88 IV% Gamma Dependent PUT Skew ATM $ 122,410,005.00 384.94 230.35% 365.06 Range 19.88 IV% Gamma Dependent The Close came off the Pivot after dipping in ever so slightly with 368 for the SPY Close based upon the collapse of Open Interest - closing at 367.95. Wall Street ran the implied range @ 19.88 by 1.79 - a small expansion to 21.67. Close enough, MaxPain had the SPY pinned @ 387... their data sets were off by a very wide margin - an absurd failure on their effort. Here is the Open Data Set: Calls O/I $ Multiple Notional $ 375 179749 2.23 100 $ 40,084,027.00 376 155605 1.77 100 $ 27,542,085.00 377 115204 1.37 100 $ 15,782,948.00 380 175276 0.56 100 $ 9,815,456.00 $ 93,224,516.00 Puts O/I $ Multiple Notional $ 370 218394 0.89 100 $ 19,437,066.00 372 110857 1.43 100 $ 15,852,551.00 373 116496 1.77 100 $ 20,619,792.00 374 165461 2.18 100 $ 36,070,498.00 375 247727 2.64 100 $ 65,399,928.00 376 95994 3.17 100 $ 30,430,098.00 $ 187,809,933.00 In Sum, do not ever trust MaxPain, do your own work. It is garbage. ____________________________________________________________________________________ The important points in the Chart: Notice where the 55 EMA resides. Observe the Shorter duration of EMA crosses. EMA slopes and ST Fib Levels as both are Neodymium Magnets. Gap Fill Extension Range to and from recent Gap Highs to Implied Price Objective. ____________________________________________________________________________________ On to the Fundamentals: AAII Sentiment has crossed 60% Fear Greed is now 24 breaking into the Extreme Fear base camp The Dollar has its sights set on the 121 / 125 region, please observe the EuroDollar Chart. As well, consider the Dollar's response to BOJ interventions. Bonds are showing immense stress in the system. UST Settlement Failures are a disturbing account of reality. Defaults are mounting Globally, (See UK $500B recent Default last week). Yield Inversion simply continues to accelerate in fits and starts. Forwards for 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7's are heading to 5%. A 40-Year Freak Out as Yield Inversion has exceeded 50%. FX - Default dislocations throughout the Markets can lead to a near Instant Spike in the Dollar contrary to those who are Bearish on the DXY. Yes, it will indeed collapse - your timing... it's off is all. Bitcoin - SUB 10K IMHO with ease - see Trendline. It is important to remember with EPS ahead - the Mega Caps breaking down... after 3 reductions to lower guidance since August... Sellers are piling into Apple once again, with good reason, it looks horrific. Weakness is everywhere in MegaCaps. Breadth - collapsing TRIN - Horror Show TRIX - Ditto Market Internals - No Nieno ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Contrarian Traders are likely early, hopefully, we see a small RT Monday for Wall Street to reposition. Have a great weekend. if you enjoyed this and found it of value, please give it a thumbs up and do share your thoughts - it is appreciated.
AMEX:SPY
by HK_L61
13
Effective Fed Fuds 2023 - Powell's War on You Growth, Employment, Inflation - aka what's left of the Economy. 1. Employment - seeking roughly a reduction of 12 Million Jobs. 2. Growth - reduction of 50% for S&P 500 from Highs. 3. Inflation - Leads until Rate Lag breaks everything. _________________________________________________________________________________ Capital Stocks Powell - Bonds are going to see a Yield Curve Inversion, larger than usual. There is no single condition, what is the term premium on Longer Rates is what matters most. Powell - Housing will see a significant correction, we want the housing market back on a sustainable path. Powell - Equities are overvalued, period, the end. We're committed to "Price Stability" Powell - The US should not return to a Gold Standard - Digital Currency is the path. Powell - We flooded the System with Money (Digitally) by buying Bonds now we are selling them. _________________________________________________________________________________ Forward Rates are indicating he is very serious. I've warned about this for well over a year now - safe to say its come to pass.
CBOT:ZQU2023
by HK_L61
2
Short Spain/Ibex 35So... the Spanish market has actually OUTPERFORMED all the other european indiced in the past year and actually YTD: www.investing.com --> "Performance" that makes no sense... a country/economy which were on the edge of bankrupcy in the last financial crisis. Why has this economy outperformed all the other eonomies? it makes no sense . IMO a short position for the rest of the year (if needed) should be in order. As soon as the ECB raises the interest rates, just watch Spain (and Italy for that matter) it will go down and struggle like all the southern european countries has done for ages. Nothing has changed - it will happen.
SShort
by Hvalp
SPY/SPX - $8 Billion Press to Downside Protection - 4X Expiry Institutional Protection (Hedging) reached an All-Time High on the September 16th Quad Witch Expiration. This position dwarfs prior hedging Highs by 103% and is rising by an additional $8 Billion added to the hoard of Puts Friday. Not only are the positions outsized - it was 308% of 2008's Hedging. _________________________________________________________________________________ Intense Volatility will return in September. Of Note, with the declining Volatility Complex, VX Hedging has not dropped within a concurrent Cost Correlation. Options Writers are set for 3.19% IV for September... which may portend significantly Higher VX on any significant change in arrangements. _________________________________________________________________________________ On to the SPX/SPY and what is ahead. Of Note, I am Using the SPX as Large traders and Institutions are most heavily positioned here. Levels for the SPY are contained below. Trader Sentiment began the Week at 18.1% Bullish & 53.3% Bearish for the next 180 Days. ISM Price Paid Component declined 34.6% on the latest print as Commodity Intermediate Inputs have declined significantly. Interest Rate Forwards are indicating the FOMC will be @ 4% by January. The short end of the Curve continues to confirm the Fed Fund Futures. The DX took a breather on the Effective Rate Tussle between the EU and US. Powell will not do anything less than 75Bps and should the CPI be above 8.1 - 8.2, odds favor Powell stepping up the odds of 100 BPS, anything below 8 and 75Bps will be the LIS. The Fed is "data dependent" - ie. they bought themselves time and have already indicated it will be, at minimum, several months of observing the Data and not one nor two. Market Internals were solid with 90% Up, 10 :1 Advance peaking at 17 : 1 Intraday. Breadth improved as well, not significantly, but an improvement pushing the Closing Basis above the 10-Week Moving Average. Friday's rally was broad as was Wednesday's. NQ's Up/Down was higher as well, with a slight broadening after coming very close to putting in a lower low. The Put/Call ratio fell from 1.01 on Tuesday to .80 on close Friday - a 3-day decline. The ViX has 19.46 wide open again as we move into Roll through Settle, expect a surprise soon. It is ahead. The VVIX came up to its Pivot and failed badly. Extreme awareness of the UST Curve and Futures is vital to success as we are seeing 4% come into our view. DX, same considerations, the Ball is in Powell's court now that LeGarde has made her tit for tat. FX Disruptions were not considered not all that long ago. I pointed out they would be arriving shortly back in August of 2021. Very large disruptions were promised and delivered. 100% Ditto Bonds and their impending implosions. Dung was Flung then, not so much now and it is quite far from over for Bonds. As for the Levels in Trade this week, they can be observed on the Weekly Chart in a larger context. For Sunday Globex / Monday, here are the levels: NQ - Range Expands from 12,438 to 12,866 with 12508 as the Pivot. SPY - Range Expands from 405.44 to 415.22 with 406.17 as the Pivot. The 407.37 Gap is filled. _________________________________________________________________________________ *Options have continued to play an important role in Price over the past decade. Presently, they drive prices significantly. I will produce a thorough explanation, in detail, in the next few days. It will include: 1. The 5 Greeks and how they function - Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega & Rho. 2. Alpha and Beta relations from the Underlying to the Derivative. 3. The Yield Correlations. Have a great weekend, Good Luck on the Open - Trade Safe.
SP:SPX
by HK_L61
4
SPY / SPX / ES - $USD Smacked / 6E breaks Par - the LIFT The USD pulled back overnight on the ECB's 75 BPS Hike, until the October 21st FOMC Rate decision is announced the DXY can easily see downside pressure. Traders began to move against the Dollar as Major Asian Markets opened and again - ahead of the EU Session open @ 3 AM EST, by 3:30 AM EST. The Inversion lift was provided to the ES NQ YM RTY GC & SI @ 3 AM ET - straight up 20 Handles for the ES. Boom went the Stimulus in FX. Even Crude managed to lift over the 85.02 Pivot. Financials - XLF / NQBANK / KRE etc. are going to have a Stick Save day ahead. 1 & 2Yr Bills will see some much-needed consolidation after the short end has gone parabolic over since Wyoming Powell. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Yesterday's increase in Put activity provided the required Globex Squeeze and extension as upon the NYSE open there will be continued closing of Trades which have gone sideways. Sentiment and Positioning had swung to a sell-side weighting. Lael Brainard provided a pivotal comment - "The FED is aware of over-tightening." - this was all the Bid required to infer further "Pivot" chatter with respect to the Policy Cushion of overdoing tightening. 2.53% Fed Funds - 8.5% Inflation... overtightening? You do the Math. - it was all the Bulls needed to gain confidence in the Build Back Better Rally. __________________________________________________________________________________________ SPY Pivots are as follows for Friday: Trendline Support - 391.88 Baseline Supports - 395.22 / 396.44 / 397.61 Pivot for Higher - 401.56 provides a Throw over to 405.04 to 407.11 OR the .382 Fib of the recent High to Lows - it should remain overhead Resistance for today. 400.25 is the over / under into the open. Will late chasers see a hammer... not until the Puts are run off. Friday's Gap Fills come in at 77.22% - having been surpassed by Thursday @ 80.13%. Today may be quite different, the Gap does not need to fill today until after 11 AM EST, IF at all. Bots adore Gaps. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Are Institutions bidding Markets? No, they are not - Large Traders are, however. Above 400 on Friday and holding into the Close will provide "continuation thinking." There is just enough Liquidity returning to provide interest and Organic Buying. The Next Gen Squeeze awaits at 407.22 to 407.41. __________________________________________________________________________________________ This can run further as expectations have been set for a weaker CPI next Tuesday. Bullhorns have been blaring into the Bears Camp - they hear confirmation bias only to be dropped into the Dunk Tank time and again - a pattern that frankly repeats itself over and over. Bloomberg begins chortling on about "New Lows, 3400, Breaking 3600, Hawkish this/that" and it gains mindshare traction... quickly. Many traders are swing for the Triple when they would be far safer loading the bases with Singles, Balks, Walks, and chalk. Low Volume - let's leave it as Volumes are building. On Balance, Market Internals were improving off very low levels in the OSC's reaching Sub 300 with 388 and 475 being the Crash outliers from prior events. Summations held the Zero Line and turned in a clear Divergence. It remains a Bear Market IMHO until we see the 50 retake the 200. And speaking of EMA's/SMA's... they are very potent attractors - in particular defending 50/100 crosses. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Trade Safe through early September - it's not as many believed, 11/19 has been Higher over the last 20 years - will this be 12 or 9... we'll see - Magic 8 Balls aside, expect Higher VX @ 1.5 to 3% on either side of the Tape. Never discount the Effects of VOX ROLL?SETTLE timing. Good Luck to you. HK
AMEX:SPY
by HK_L61
9
LYV: The music just stopped!Live Nation Entertainment Short Term - We look to Sell at 90.13 (stop at 93.80) The medium term bias remains bearish. A bearish Head and Shoulders is forming. The measured move target is 81.00. Further downside is expected although we prefer to sell into rallies close to the 91.00 level. Our profit targets will be 81.20 and 79.00 Resistance: 93.00 / 99.50 / 127.00 Support: 81.00 / 74.00 / 60.00 Please be advised that the information presented on TradingView is provided to Vantage (‘Vantage Global Limited’, ‘we’) by a third-party provider (‘Signal Centre’ ). Please be reminded that you are solely responsible for the trading decisions on your account. There is a very high degree of risk involved in trading. Any information and/or content is intended entirely for research, educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute investment or consultation advice or investment strategy. The information is not tailored to the investment needs of any specific person and therefore does not involve a consideration of any of the investment objectives, financial situation or needs of any viewer that may receive it. Kindly also note that past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking or past performance statements. We assume no liability as to the accuracy or completeness of any of the information and/or content provided herein and the Company cannot be held responsible for any omission, mistake nor for any loss or damage including without limitation to any loss of profit which may arise from reliance on any information supplied by Signal Centre.
NYSE:LYV
by VantageMarkets
Consolidation/reversal area for the S&P 500?The S&P 500 sold off until June, when expectations of monetary tightening peaked. Since then, the index has powered off the June lows as the growing likelihood of recession makes it less tenable for the Fed to keep raising rates. I suspect that interest rate expectations will continue to "drive the ship," and that stock prices will peak or consolidate whenever market expectations for a "dovish pivot" peak or consolidate. Currently, FOMC FedWatch futures are pricing a 75% chance that the Fed will hike 50 bps in September, and a 25% chance that the Fed will hike 75 bps: www.cmegroup.com In November, the market is expecting a target rate of either 3% (75% chance) or 3.25% (25% chance), and in December, the market's placing about even odds that we end the year at either 3% or 3.25%. So in all, the market expects the Fed target rate to be either 75 bps or 100 bps higher than the current level by year end. This is slightly more dovish than the Fed's own projections. The current Fed dot plot indicates that the median forecast by FOMC members is that they will raise the target to 3.25% by year end. So, I think market expectations are now about where they should be. That suggests to me that most of the big gains in stocks are now behind us, and that the S&P 500's price may be entering a zone of consolidation as it approaches the 200-day EMA. We definitely could see market expectations get even more dovish if economic data stay soft. For instance, maybe the consensus for September will move to a 25 or 50 bps hike. But if the economic data looks that bad, then the stock market may find other reasons for pessimism. A strong dovish pivot could also cause inflation expectations and commodities prices to rise again, which could throw a wet blanket on the stock market rally as well. I wouldn't expect ES to be able to get much father than 4320 without causing inflation to heat up and the Fed to flip hawkish again. Bottom line: I think there's still some runway for stocks to move higher toward that 200-day EMA, but I wouldn't expect them to immediately go soaring off into a new bull market. More likely, they get a little more tentative here and consolidate for a while in this range.
CME_MINI:ES1!
by ChristopherCarrollSmith
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