ridethepig | Getting Itchy Fingers in US Equities...Getting our bearings...
If a retrace swing is checked in its advance only by opposing forces, waiting for sentiment to improve will mean you have missed out on a lot of the bounce. There is the recognition that when a crash like this happens, we must sacrifice a part of our own effectiveness just to help keep an eye on it, outguessing the lows is an advanced game, you will need to keep tracking continuously over the coming days/weeks.
When we remember another signpost, name that the 2s5s was screaming recession last year in that it is a born defender, we will gradually get to the point where selling exhausts in Equities and is worthy of our respect.
We need to ask ourselves...what is the best price to outguess an ambitious swing low? What is the most secure defence of our own portfolios? What is the cheapest stop cluster on the board to load into? e.g The lows at +/- 15,500 are once more open for a sweep, because new cycles are not suited to long-term populated ladder inactivities. This is much less the case when a swing is employed in such a chapter.
Let us now take a look at some of the underlying factors that are weighing heavy right now, firstly the " Consumer Staples " chart of the previous chapter. In this connection, I must first mention the majority. At the start of the turn the low hanging fruit was there to be taken, but after the 2008 crisis it was one way traffic.
As the game continues, Covid-19 is now marking the highs in this cycle, and then the majority of SMEs are under severe pressure against liquidity. Every day, uncompromised jobs are being lost with Jobless Claims exploding through the roof:
A rule which is dictated not only by strategic necessity but much deeper, as I am sure you will admit, by sheer "good manners". The rule can be described with scientific precision as follows:
=> The knee-jerk lows of the decline is the candidate we are considering, as there is support at 15,500 I will look to fade dips into this area and then play a swing towards 35,000.
With Oil on the $20 lows, sellers are looking to cripple Russia and Saudi. How simple! And yet, how often does one see weaker players advance the move, then comes the majority of retailers which is no value to us. We are approaching the final few chapters in the Oil decline too, the explanation is simple, they are undecided whether to start on the supply side cuts, so being unable to make up their minds (and killing US Shale in the meantime) markets do what all solid players do: they stick the knife in and cause maximum pain.
In this position, sellers have a passed swing, but it can be seen more clearly in Monthly:
This stopping is achieved by US placing one's focus on Gold and directly increasing the price of XAUUSD. But here, as in all other cases, the question arises: is Gold:Oil ratio (XAUUSD & XAUCNY | USOIL & CNYOIL contracts) not an unnecessary use of energy? Actually China managed to devalue the CNY right in-front of our eyes via Oil. The only way the US can now keep a healthy petrodollar market is by keeping a low gold:oil ratio which is either via low Gold and high Oil or High Gold and low Oil, you get the point.
Two options are in play right now... either widespread defaults or I am glad to offer you what I believe is an exhaustive solution to the problem I have raised and inflate assets away. Nominal GDP will need to grow and your mediocre critic would sum up the problem in a short comment: write off student debts, or more helicopter money. But to my mind this betrays a poverty of thought! The why and wherefore are extraordinarily important. It would be ridiculous to write a piece here without a psychological element. In my books, its just as ridiculous to write a manual about swing strategy without immersing oneself in the innermost being of the participating drivers of flows.
No matter how unusual the following scenario may seem, I can only insist on the fact that models show confidence collapsing in public assets which will trigger inflows towards private sector in the coming years. They too have desires that slumber unrecognised within them, and fears of which they are scarcely aware. But quite removed from that, a detailed case for the need to outguess the turn is more practical use than those who seek theory. Of course, I do not consider the presence of a practical plan as an extenuating development, for what have I do do with extenuating developments!!
Take care everyone and thanks for keeping the support coming with likes, comments, charts and etc!
Djianalysis
Rally on DJI (Dow Jones)The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose more than 11% to clock its biggest advance since 1933. Dow Jones futures jumped Tuesday morning, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures, amid optimism about a massive stimulus deal.
New support at 20,000 for DJI. Not sure how long this rally will last because its basically akin to printing money to keep the economy going. I feel the fundamentals are weakening but the artificial support might keep the market alive for a short period of time but long term wise, might be harmful for the economy. Just my 2 cents. hmm..
DJI 30 min Chart - Sell to reach 2nd targetbeside March 10 posts
now we Sell US30 30 min - Head and shoulder pattern
expect to reach 2nd target 18000 - 17826.
Dow Jones Index Top phishing playI'm shorting this just like the movie called 'The Big Short' .
Risk reward looks solid, Actually it would be tremendously well when it does go that far because it would follow through and crash into 2 year period of bear market at least.
***TRADE WITH YOUR OWN RESPONSIBILITY, THIS IS NOT AN ADVICE.***
DOW Outlook 26 FEB 20See chart for key pivot points for todays trading day.
futures are up small at this moment, if we cannot obtain the pivots shown and we roll over into yesterdays low more volatility is to come, looking for sell setups
on the other hand if we can penitrate the pivot lines we could see a relief rally towards yesterdays open levels
reversal signs for us30 at 28000.28000 - 27900 is a zone where we detected multiple pips. after the massive loss of 1000 points, we are facing a reversal/retracement of the daily loss of yesterday.
we see that the price is trapped in the yellow box en developed multiple wicks. We can expect around 14:00 a stop hunt to the level 27880, and after that, it will rise.
The Final Phase Of The Bull Market Begins (Fractal Update)My previous posts on this subject were much longer, but I'll keep this short and sweet. You can check out my other posts (linked below) for more in-depth analysis and my overall perspective.
I actually DID NOT want to see the stock market continue up here. It's just further confirmation that we're still following this fractal from 1929. I drew the yellow speculative line a while ago, showing that if we continue up from here, we can indeed reach as high as 40-50,000, even by Fall 2020, when we could also hit the long term channel resistance (red). It's interesting that this may easily coincide with the U.S. Presidential election.
This, I believe, is a seller's rally. I expect the DJI to eventually AT LEAST test the long term trendline (purple) and the 200 Month Moving Average (light blue). A catastrophic financial collapse could result in the loss of the long term trendline and a decline just as severe as the Great Depression. The technical setup is there for this to happen, but the question is: What are the underlying similarities and the warning signs that have led to such similar market behavior? Feel free to discuss.
Here's a closer view and comparison. You can see certain features marked for structural comparison:
Anyway, this is not financial advice. As always, my posts are speculative and based purely upon my own opinions and observations.
-Victor Cobra
ridethepig | Coronavirus Risk-OffOn the Equities front sentiment is starting to shift once again towards the negative side with offloading being done at the highs. After clearing Powell focus is shifting back towards the pressures on earnings from Coronavirus and spillovers, not expecting much more room to the topside in the immediate term.
Investors do not like the headlines from China with cases jumping sharply. Tracking closely USDJPY as a benchmark for the FX board to measure the reaction in risk. 110.2x remains strong resistance and creates a strong drag on Equities moving further. The factory closes are going to trigger a round of default risks for Chinese factories. School closures are being extended into March while the Chinese government remains closed until the final week in Feb. This all has yet to translate into the data, markets will need to price the additional risk premium.
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