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#DXY - WIN or LOSS Hello my Fellow TraderZ, Currently this is the most important chart most of the traders eyeing upon - #DXY. #DXY - an index containing the graphical representation of the strength of $USD against major currencies of the World. We can see the #DXY is enjoying the Parabolic Blow off phase after making DOUBLE BOTTOM in JUNE 2021. Now , after breaking certain important levels, it is approaching towards MONTHLY level of 120 after Dotcom Bubble in 2001. As I can see we could possibly have two scenarios to play in the coming days : 1. GREEN - here #DXY will continue its path to 120 giving more pain to Equity markets. 2. RED - here I'm assuming this one to play (anticipating FED's soft behavior towards Rates' Hike), then we could see a retracement towards the 102 allowing Equities to enjoy relief rally in 3-5 months following a major crash globally which could possibly lead to mark the Cycle BOTTOM. NOTE : - Not a Financial Advice, just my speculation. CHEERS!!!
TVC:DXY
by TRADER-GOKU
2
Bank of England Emergency Bond PurchaseLast week, UK pension funds, which hold highly leveraged bond derivative positions, were facing a nearly $1 trillion loss as bond prices crashed and yields rose. The crash in the bond market has been underway for years, but the tipping point occurred when the UK prime minister pledged to cut taxes at a time when inflation is soaring into the double digits. Cutting taxes worsens inflation because less taxes means consumers have more money to spend on inflating goods. Cutting taxes while inflation is high therefore risks worsening inflation or inducing hyperinflation. Fear of this caused the price of UK bonds to crash and yields to spike. (As many of you know well, bond prices move down when yields rise). This crash caused pension funds with highly leveraged bond positions to experience amplified losses, which caused these funds to need to put up more cash collateral on their losing positions. This could have caused a downward spiral because these funds may have had to sell bonds to raise more cash, which would have had a negative feedback loop that could have sent prices down further, amplifying losses more, and creating the need to raise even more cash collateral. The Bank of England had to make an emergency purchase of bonds. However, by purchasing bonds, the Bank of England has taken an action that will now make inflation worse (there will be a lag effect). Whenever a central bank purchases bonds, it is adding liquidity to the system (when the central bank buys bonds this has the effect of increasing the money supply). Increasing the money supply when inflation is at a multi-decade high is super risky. At best it could risk inflation staying elevated for longer, at worst it could spiral into hyperinflation. In the chart above, reproduced below, you can see that when priced in the British pound, crude oil prices are barely declining (as we would have expected from all the rate hikes). If anything, crude oil is looking poised to increase further. The Bank of England, and other central banks, are trapped. Until they stop monetary easing (adding to the money supply) and tighten the money supply such that rates are higher than core inflation, inflation will continue to get worse. Yet, as we now see in the UK, central banks cannot tighten the money supply sufficiently to accomplish this without causing a financial crisis. The rapidity with which the Bank of England switched back on the money printer, despite double-digit inflation, has me convinced that central banks will choose the hyperinflation route. In fact, hyperinflation is already happening in some countries. Argentina has hiked rates to 75% (not 75 bps, 75% or 7,500 bps) and yet inflation continues to spiral higher. There is actually no limit to how bad inflation can get. When people need to pay $100 trillion dollars for food, as in Zimbabwe in 2008, people usually stop believing that central bank fiat notes are valuable and the system collapses. Look at the chart below. I did not log-adjust the chart so that you can see that hyperinflation is when commodity prices rise exponentially over time. For the chart, I used the Invesco Commodity Index Tracking Fund (DBC) and priced it in Argentine pesos. I used cross plots on a smoothened moving average. This level of hyperinflation always leads to some kind of crisis. Either interest rates must crush demand and cause economic decline, or hyperinflation eventually causes a monetary crisis whereby people stop using the currency altogether. Commodity hyperinflation also leads to political instability and the rise of fascist or communist dictators. Furthermore, when these crises occur on a global scale, they can precipitate conflict, and conflict in turn can worsen commodity shortages. For those who have been thinking that inflation has peaked globally, there is no chart that I have seen which validates that conclusion. Indeed, as shown in the chart below, commodity prices continue to break record highs in some parts of the world. In most currencies, commodity prices appear to be bull flagging. Compare the below two charts. One shows how commodity prices continue to spiral higher in Argentina, despite the central bank hiking rates all the way to 75%, compared to 2008, when commodity prices fell while the central bank raised interest rates to just 12%. This shows that we are dealing with a much more dangerous type of inflation. I posted these figures to show just how bad inflation can get and the risks associated with monetary easing. Many people are believing the pig-in-a-python theory, where they think inflation is transitory and will improve when the massive COVID stimulus passes through the pipeline. However, what they fail to realize is that central banks have been putting an endless stream of pigs in the python for decades through monetary easing. Economies have become totally dependent on monetary easing and central banks are now trapped in needing to maintain it. Yet, if central banks continue monetary easing, inflation cannot come down. It just keeps spiraling higher so long as monetary easing continues, assuming commodity shortages also continue. Commodity shortages are deep-rooted and are due in part to war, deglobalization, aging and less productive populations, and climate change to name several factors. Monetary policy has little efficacy on these supply issues. Sri Lanka was the canary in the coal mine. It was the first central government to fall due to commodity hyperinflation. And yet, even after a central government collapse, commodity prices in Sri Lanka are still high. The chart below shows that commodities appear to be bull-flagging, and poised to go higher. Core inflation which is typically stable in the United States is now exploding to a 40-year high. If the Federal Reserve is to be successful at hiking rates to quell inflation, it must hike rates above the core inflation level. There is virtually no central bank with an interest rate higher than core inflation. Indeed, Japan continues to maintain negative interest rates. As I noted in a prior post, because negative interest rates incentivize the creation of money through credit, negative interest rates reflect limitless growth of the money supply. However, as alluded to above, the Fed is trapped. It must hike rates above core inflation, but it also cannot hike rates above core inflation. Decades of monetary easing have left a highly leveraged economy totally reliant on low interest rates. Hiking rates as far as would be needed to quell inflation would likely lead to an economic depression. Pension funds are already under tremendous strain from the hiking and yet the charts show that the scope of tightening that will be necessary is not even in sight yet. The best-case scenario is that commodity supplies improve and demand softens enough to stabilize rates but not so much that economies decline significantly. Even in this perfect mitigation scenario, stock market returns are likely to be muted for years to come.
TVC:UKOIL
by SpyMasterTrades
65
US10Y Pull-back aiming for the 1D MA50 at least.This is the U.S. Government Bonds 10YR Yield (US10Y) on a 2 year horizon. As you see its aggressive rise can fit only on a Fibonacci Channel. The recent pull-back happened after the price hit the 2.5 Fibonacci extension and the 1D RSI a largely overbought level and the price is already on the 2.0 Fib. As you see, the strongest buys throughout this period have been then the RSI hit the designated Support Zone. Also the strongest pull-backs dropped the price a whole 1.0 Fib level lower. From the previous 2.5 High, the low extension is at 1.5 and that gives us still some room to sell and target at least the 1D MA50 (blue trend-line). Technically it would be best to buy once the 1D RSI enters the Support Zone again, even if that means missing on the lowest possible level. From were we stand today that could be as low as the 1D MA200 (orange trend-line). Regardless of the exact bottom, as long as the 1D MA300 (red trend-line) holds, which has been supporting since January 06 2021, the bullish target is the 2.5 Fib and the 3.0 in extension. If the price breaks below the 1D MA300 though, we will consider this a long-term trend change to bearish and should switch to a sell-the-rebounds strategy. That would affect all asset classes from stocks to Gold etc, but when that happens we will have plenty of time to analyze it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Please LIKE 👍, SUBSCRIBE ✅, SHARE 🙌 and COMMENT ✍ if you enjoy this idea! Also share your ideas and charts in the comments section below! This is best way to keep it relevant, support me, keep the content here free and allow the idea to reach as many people as possible. ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You may also TELL ME 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ in the comments section which symbol you want me to analyze next and on which time-frame. The one with the most posts will be published tomorrow! 👏🎁 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 💸💸💸💸💸💸 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇
TVC:US10YShort
by TradingShot
3
Morning Update: Bonds vs. The MarketYesterday I saw some comments about how bonds yields have come down recently and that is one of the components aiding the stock markets recent bull run. The above chart is the 10yr Treasury. If you could flip this chart upside down, it would be a chart of the SPX. Here's my concern with this chart and how I'm looking at the SPX. This pattern is not done to the upside in the 10yr. It appears this trend continues well into 2023....where as I am looking for a bottom in the SPX this month or beginning of November. I believe every chart stands on it's own. But its hard to ignore the long standing inverse correlation between bonds and stocks. If this correlation continues into 2023...(I have no information to think I will not) then it is possible this low I'm looking for soon in stocks is just a larger A wave and this wave IV in the SPX and this pattern could drag well into new year. We will know if the next decline in the SPX is one in which we loose any MACD positive divergence we have had on the daily SPX. Best to all, Chris
TVC:US10Y
by maikisch
3
SPY We are BLESSED with a Bullish WeekThe 2 year treasury bill yield has a well known high negative correlation with index prices as it represents the risk of short term capital allocations. When 2 year yields drop, stocks rally and same in the inverse. This is also true with the DXY, which represents the dollars value against other currencies and assets. When the DXY drops, the other asset tied in a pair quite literally increases in value(in dollars) as its denominator has just shrunk. All this to say, we have confirmation from 2 year t-bills and from the DXY to take a long back to local highs. :)
AMEX:SPYLong
by zimeaBlue
1
Some Monday Notes - SPX500 USOIL GOLD BONDS BTCI expect SPX to get to around 3750 and from there we make one more low to around 3500. USOIL looks good for 96 as the destination, Gold looks great for a ride up to 1770's which means the USD should continue falling. Bonds also look good here and I think yields are topping out (or at least we're close). BTC rally and then pullback but ultimately I think everything is a buy after a pullback. Rally hats first for a few days. Good luck!
CME_MINI:ES1!Long
by the_sunship
Out of The Frying Pan, Into The FireIn terms of the global macroeconomic picture, the past two weeks have been nothing short of a firestorm. Last week, the UK government announced plans for unfunded tax cuts and additional government borrowing in the ‘mini budget’. This caused a drastic reduction in market confidence. Consequently the Pound crashed to under $1.04, historically low levels against the U.S. dollar. The volatility currently playing out in financial markets is unprecedented and akin to what we are accustomed to in the world of cryptocurrency. In order to try and stop the sell-off of the pound, yesterday the Bank of England reversed course and announced that it will engage in market operations. This will involve purchasing long-dated UK government bonds (known as gilts) in an attempt to halt the fire sale which was jeopardising major financial players such as Pension Funds. With these market operations, it is now likely that UK inflation levels will rip even higher than the eye-watering levels they are already currently at. The question now becomes, what will be the next central bank to blink and how will this continuous market chaos impact Crypto and other markets? Over the past few days, crypto and wider markets have been holding up relatively well given the state of the wider economic picture. However, with a recession looming the possibility of another leg down looks increasingly likely. In recent weeks we have seen a direct correlation between inflation levels and the price of certain cryptocurrencies. When U.S. inflation data came in on the 13th of September at 8.3%, 0.2% higher than expected, the price of Bitcoin nuked 5% in a matter of minutes. Some market forecasters assume that the Federal Reserve will eventually have to pivot and loosen up its policy, inviting in higher inflation but preserving the global financial system. However, little in the Fed’s communication so far implies that this is either likely or going to happen soon. Ultimately, either decision will have stark consequences for all financial markets, including cryptocurrency. As it stands, a market reprieve and return to an ‘up-only’ bull market seems unlikely in the foreseeable future.
OANDA:UK10YBGBP
by Coinrule
TLT: Order Flow, Auction Process & Failures To RotateHey traders, If we zoom out to check the price action in TLT from a daily perspective, what do you notice? Every single time there is a failure to rotate (hinted via diamond labels), the new expansionary wave leads the market towards a new equilibrium point that so far has been found at much lower prices. I’ve circled each and every instance where these failures to rotate back up occurred. Each market is an auction process, and via the OFA script , we are able to get a pristine read of the constant ebbs and flows. The structure depicted via the script should also be a clear red flag that in this type of well-anchored bear market, being a hero typically gets you in trouble, so stay with the trend. Remember the two key main features of the OFA indicator: Magnitude: A major clue that will help determine the health of a trend is the type of progress by the dominant side in control of the trend. We need to ask the following question: Are the new legs in the active buy-sell side campaign as identified by the script increasing or decreasing in magnitude? Velocity: When it comes to the distance the price moves, the magnitude is only ½ the equation. The other ½ has to do with the velocity of the move or the speed. Was the new leg created after a fast and impulsive move? Or did price make a new low or high with the movement being sluggish, compressive and taking too long to form? A good rule of thumb is to count the number of candles it took to achieve a new leg. DISCLAIMER: This post contains commentary published solely for educational and informational purposes. This post's content (and any content available through links in this post) and its views do not constitute financial advice or an investment or trading recommendation, and they do not account for readers' personal financial circumstances, or their investing or trading objectives, time frame, and risk tolerance. Readers should perform their own due diligence, and consult a qualified financial adviser or other investment / financial professional before entering any trade, investment or other transaction.
NASDAQ:TLTEducation
by FlowState
6
Wednesday notes - SPX Wheat Gold DXY DAX Bonds etc.Some pre market commentary, SPX - expecting a bear trap after open, then higher. Wheat may be affected by the hurricane in Florida, Bonds hit an important fib extension, Gold looks promising if it can get over 1675 resistance, DXY also looks like it may pullback - BTC could still move to lower 18000 area before a move up (would align with one more low in equities) but it doesn't have to go down that far. Dax has broken monthly trendline, expect a retest over the coming weeks. I forgot oil - looks good for a strong bounce here, pullbacks are likely bought. OK good luck!
XETR:DAXLong
by the_sunship
2
$TLT - 20Y Bond index - BUY?Clearly, inflation is a problem and I for one thought the rates rising were overblown after the first hike. (I was very wrong here) With that said, we are likely in the topping process for inflation, pending any new black swan events happen. The indicators show 4 things in regards to this bond. 1. No momentum, 2. Bear market trend 3. below the historical anchored V-WAP (so most who own this EFT are underwater) 4. Bottoming on a Fib. The best way to play this is to buy tail-risk long-dated calls. Keep position small given the macro market, but clearly, this is an opportunity that hasn't been available for a while in the bond market.
NASDAQ:TLTLong
by rwoods187
SPX/US10Y/VIX - you are welcomeHey !! So I've been digging and experimenting with multiple market instrument relations and I have picked those three - SPX, 10 year bonds and VIX as they are the most powerful of all. And I have noticed it has been creating a really clear trend of up and downs - comparing it to SPX it has shown that everytime we have touched the bottom trendline - the market bounced - ONLY in 2008 we have crashed way below - but whoever has bought below that trendline - was happy a few years later. Where are we now? At the lower trendline - a bounce is coded in but I am more than certain, that we will repeat 2008's crash to say the least. We're good for a bounce now, my absolute bottom sits at the bottom trendline. Monitor the breakout! PS : Also - the peak from AUG 2020 was lower in price on SPX than we are now.
SP:SPXLong
by TheSecretsOfTrading
1
US10Y Elliot Wave Analysis (fun might be over) **WHERE DO WE START** At this point it is nearly unarguable that the move up form the Covid lows looks impulsive, meaning we are in some sort of a new bull cycle. In the past, since US10Y's inception back in the late 1970s the path it followed had a downwards trajectory that made new lows after each bull cycle was done. The US10Y would then correct those lows over the next 2-4 years or so and retrace to .5 fib or .618 fib of the previous high. It did this every single time, however in 2022 it is acting very different. For the first time in history since inception the US10Y blasted through the .618 fibonacci retracement of the previous top which was in November of 2018. My view was bearish for most of this year since we were coming up against strong resistances, however since the price pierced through them all with little effort and continued up makes me lean bullish on the Macro outlook. **TRUNCATION** Truncation (definition) - What is truncation in trading. In most impulses, the fifth of the Elliott waves extends beyond the extremum of the third wave, but sometimes the fifth wave may not reach the end of the third wave . This phenomenon is called truncation or truncated wave. The next event I need to go into is the truncation of the 5th wave down that took place in August of 2020. Truncations are rare events in Elliot Wave Theory and require very careful analysis to ensure the count is not something different. It is more likely to see a truncation in very volatile environments, and Covid crash of 2020 was undoubtably one. This truncation does not show up on US05Y or US02Y leading me to believe the actual bottom on US10Y was in August of 2020 and NOT in March of 2020. However this doesn't change the current count, just some clarification for those using Elliot Waves. **WHERE ARE WE NOW** Since the bottom we see an impulse up of which waves (1) and (2) are complete and wave (3) is in progress currently finishing it's 5th subwave. I expect the price to come to 4% or even 4.5% before the likelihood of a pullback for wave (4) becomes highly likely. The wave (4) retracement should be relatively large pulling back to .236 or .382 on the fibonacci levels from the top of wave (3). The price could come down to 2.75% - 3.5% on US10Y depending on how high wave (3) ends up going, although wave (4) pullback is allowed to go as low as .5 fib which could bring the US10Y down even below 2.75%, but I must say I find that unlikely considering how bullish this move up is coming to be. **LIKELY PRICE PATH** What's beginning to look clear is that after we finish wave (4) in a 3 wave structure down or perhaps a triangle formation (common in wave 4 pullbacks), we are still going to need to complete the impulse sequence and start a wave (5) up. Yes, I expect US10Y to hit and possibly go past 5%. Once there we have a completed wave 1 on a Macro outlook since the crash of 2020. I will then expect government treasury bond yields to enter a short term "bear market" and correct the entire move shown in the chart as red ABC down. This could then be last great pullback... and an opportunity to buy a house at a very affordable rate. Why? Because once this ABC that will correct this entire bull move up is done, we should see continuation in rising interest rates in a new bull cycle up. A 5 wave Elliot impulse is not a complete sequence, it should be followed by a 3, 7, or 11 wave down correction. Typically retracing to .5 or .618 on fibonnaci retracement levels and continue up again in a minimum of 5 waves. **CONCLUSION** The era of cheap rates might be coming to an end, and 2020 covid crash might have marked a long term bottom on treasury yields. Cheers,
TVC:US10YLong
by Elliot618
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