BTCUSD: Weekly downtrend?I'm not too convinced of the decline setting up here, but it's a valid trade. If prices do slump over the course of the next 16 weeks, we may end up bottoming around the $3220 mark by then. I'd look into flipping long, long term, once this zone is reached, IF prices don't rally back over this week's high soon.
Cheers,
Ivan Labrie.
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GDXJ: Jr. miners have bottomed - upside to shy of $70 possible$GDXJ is an exchange traded fund which lets investors gain exposure to a basket of gold and silver mining companies, which can be a very interesting vehicle to benefit from major moves in precious metals. In this case, we see that the daily chart is likely to start trending sharply up from here, with a chance of breaking above the long term resistance zone above, in which case, prices could surge close to $70 over time. We're long from today, entered a 9.5% position at $28.15, shortly after the market opened.
We may add to it on dips, if prices retrace back into today's range next week.
Best of luck if following me here.
Cheers,
Ivan Labrie.
XAUUSD: Gold is trending from here...I think we may be in the presence of a 3-day timeframe uptrend signal in Gold. Similarly to the pattern that emerged after bottoming in late 2015, Gold prices are set to soar from here onwards, if this signal pans out. Monthly and higher timeframes are bullish as well, so we might be in for a ride, with prices rallying over 1400 if we break over the long term uptrend mode you see in white above (white box on chart).
As I was describing in my Silver publication, fundamentals, sentiment and technicals align, so we can expect a sizeable long term move off this juncture. One interesting sidenote is that cash levels in brokerage accounts are at really low levels, which also favors the bullish gold case, together with the evidence presented in the other chart.
You may go long here or on dips, preferrably buy on dips if not already in. We hold long positions since I published my macro analysis chart when gold was roughly 1179, and looking to add to it on dips here.
Best of luck,
Ivan Labrie.
EURTRY/USDTRY: Bottom of the rangeEURTRY (and $USDTRY) look to be at the bottom of the range here, and might end up evolving into a trend opportunity over time.
I'm long risking small but with very good risk/reward since the invalidation for this trade is small (a drop under 6.87).
$USDTRY offers the same setup pretty much but I like the crosspair more, slightly better r/r.
Good luck,
Ivan Labrie.
BTCUSD: Market is sideways...I think cryptocurrencies are likely to remain range bound, which means short term traders are mainly in control, while long term players await for fundamentals to evolve favorably to position themselves. Overall bullish bias, with weekly sellers exhausted and very few reasons to get momentum in any direction.
I'd stay away from this market for now, my interest will gravitate back towards it by the time MtGox creditors receive their $BTC, or after ETFs or cryptocurrency trading hit proper exchanges like Nasdaq, etc.
Fundamentals are bullish, but lacking to provide the backbone needed for a long term advance, and catalysts aren't there yet, for a move to the downside so the market will remain sideways, hurting the most people possible in every swing...
With BTC being designated a commodity by the SEC, over time, we might see it be treated like gold is in the US. I think over time, as people are shaken out by the potential shake out decline that hordes of MtGox hodlers rushing to sell at exchanges might bring, would cause enough of a negative sentiment extreme to form a long term bottom we could buy, eventually. Patience, time at mode analysis points to a long sideways downwards drift until May-June 2019, which aligns with these developments panning out.
Good luck navigating these murky waters, if you try and do so.
Ivan Labrie.
MIC: Good entry, potential for a big weekly uptrend...$MIC offers an ideal risk/reward here, to go long here, risking 3 average ranges down, to aim for the earnings resistance level above, or maybe even a larger rally as per the cyan weekly arrow.
Check out @timwest's Key Hidden Levels chatroom for more ideas like this one.
Good luck,
Ivan Labrie.
JBLU: Swing trade opportunityBuy here, risk 1-3 Average True Ranges down, to ride it back up to the recent top or into resistance. Watch the 'key earnings levels' for a support/resistance map in price. You can get this indicator in @timwest's indicator pack. Really useful to navigate through the chop.
With oil so extended, airlines oversold into support, we have a nice low risk setup. I'm loading up here.
Cheers,
Ivan Labrie.
WDC: Interesting bottom signal, cheap valuation hereThe trend in $WDC might be turning around here. Valuation is really low here, and the chart seems to indicate the weekly decline is over. I like my odds here, risking $4-$5 to the downside, for huge upside potential if the trend in flash memory turns up again.
Cheers,
Ivan Labrie.
$USDJPY: Looks toppy here...I think we have a clear top signal here in $USDJPY, which aligns with the price action in Gold and $DXY.
I'd reccomend a short position with a wide stop, and a lot of patience. You may enter averaging in during the next 3 days, or over the course of a week to a month, depending on the timeframe you're trading from. Daily, I'd use a stop over 113.85, and average in.
The weekly signal failed to hit its bullish target for this pair, which implies weakness once we break below a weekly low next.
Best of luck,
Ivan Labrie.
Broad market update: DeleveragingI think we might be about to see deleveraging in the market, judging by the action in the yen, together with Gold rising on falling $VIX, while $SPX peaks, but fails to advance further after $VIX fell slightly. I suspect mid term election woes plus all the barrage of bad news related to trade wars and other topics might push investors into cash. Personally I've sold all my holdings except for my positions in gold and $TSLA, and will look into rebuying once a bottom is clearly spotted in the broad market.
For now, I will focus on determining if this thesis is correct, and if so, look into maximizing my gains in the gold rally that might emerge from here.
Gold hit a monthly support level, got oversold, whilst being in a monthly uptrend and flashed a huge buy signal from the Commitment of traders report data, whilst the daily trend ended, forming a potential reversal setup. Risk/reward is optimal on the long side now. I will scale into the trend as we get more and more confirmation and other trend continuation signals later on. Targets for it are as high as 1550, if we confirm a monthly T@M signal eventually.
Cheers,
Ivan Labrie.
BTCUSD: Weekly trend is down...As per my previous analysis, we had a good chance to rally from the last local bottom, back to 8500+- to top there and resume the bear market decline.
We were long, rode a move from 6360 to 8200-8300, and flipped short but we were shaken out of the short sadly. Now the signal is very clear and the weekly confirms the downtrend with full force. Being the main timeframe in control here, this scenario is of very high probability, since it goes against mainstream sentiment and aligns with the longest term pattern which is currently implying a bearish/sideways phase until we reach the vertical green line in my chart -which nicely aligns with the timing for MtGox coins to be distributed and likely sold at market via exchanges by desperate hodlers who were stuck since Gox went to hell-.
We can look to enter shorts at market, gradually, or wait for a retracement entry after the weekly close, which would give us a far greater reward to risk ratio.
Cheers,
Ivan Labrie.
PS: Don't be a stubborn hodler, please go to cash...unless you really enjoy losing money for no good reason.
USDARS: Fellow Argentinians, sadly the dollar rally continues...The target here is big, but it could go even higher depending on how it acts. I'd reccomend to divest positions in local equities and bonds, and get exposure to US equities and the dollar, or pairs like the dollar/yen.
After this next top, we could see a bigger correction in the dollar accross the board though, so I want to be ready to capture the reversal, in particular by going long gold once we have full confirmation, which may come by September.
Best of luck to us all,
Ivan Labrie.
SOHO: Potential quarterly uptrend...$SOHO is a very interesting income play @timwest reccomended over at his chatroom many times. The chart has been setting up for an explosive rally, and we've been accumulating positions for a while, while also playing some shorter term swings in between and collecting the dividend each quarter.
Yield is very good and the company has been really solid, so it is easy to reccomend this one as a potential long term hodl trade.
Best of luck if you consider investing in this company.
Cheers,
Ivan Labrie.
AUDCAD: Good chance to go long given the spread in oil vs copperI think we've reached a point where the huge spread between oil and copper will close, this type of scenario favors an $AUDCAD long position. The chart is constructive already, so, it could end up flashing a nice trend signal from here. I'll be looking to enter longs at market open, and exit once the spread is closed once more.
You could also trade the pair, long copper, short oil, either weighted based on volatility, or equal dollar weights on each leg.
Best of luck,
Ivan Labrie.
USDCAD: Low risk long entry...I like the $USDCAD pair here for a swing trade opportunity, given the trend in the $DXY chart, and in the $EURUSD and $USDJPY pairs, as well as movement in oil and gold, I reckon the trade has very good odds. Market participants have been pricing in the fact that the Fed won't hike rates again this year, but it isn't clear if that will be the case or not. Either way, the technical picture is clear, and given the economic growth in the US, this trade has decent odds of panning out favorably.
Best of luck,
Ivan Labrie.
TSLA: Updated weekly viewAfter a great earnings conference call, $TSLA started jumping higher, and apparently shorts are being squeezed. The weekly Time @ Mode signal implies price can hit 449.36 within 9 more weeks or less. I'm holding longs since we hit $250 roughly, and added a few times on the way up recently, and on dips.
Elon Musk claims $TSLA will be cash flow positive and profitable in very short order, and the production and sales growth certainly is very positive, as well as updates regarding their AI chips and software for self driving. I think we can see a very sharp rally from here, it will be challenging to not sell too soon.
Hodl!
Ivan Labrie.
EWZ: Likely bottomed or bottoming here...Brazil is extremely washed out, but it has held a long term support level so far. I think odds are the market turns up from here.
I'm long $PBR in particular, since it is showing tremendous relative strength vs the brazilian market, and it has a long way to go to catch up to oil, closing the gigantic spread it now has. The situation with the CEO resigning caused further headwinds in the stock, but it has now stabilized and coiling against overhead supply...over time it will break above it following the earnings report most likely -as long as the fundamental story doesn't change and debt continues to be tackled effectively...-.
As for the $EWZ chart, we have hit a monthly low volume support, and also the lowest point of the last time they almost impeach Temer, this was a huge capitulation day for many investors and it is where most stocks bottomed back then. I'd look into finding interesting brazilian companies rather than buying the index directly, but it gives us a good reference point here. Another interesting chart is $EEM, and the Chinese stock market, both of which are also affected by the rally in the dollar that we had so far.
Best of luck,
Ivan Labrie.
SPY: Weekly viewMarket is likely to rally until October and top at $300.21, likely related to the midterm elections generating volatility by then.
Options traders are net bearish, currently, so I think we have ample room to go up despite concerns about the trade war (most likely overrated) and rates rising.
As @timwest pointed out many times, in this case, rates will rise but overall, investing in US equities is attractive so likely the demand for liquidity to finance new projects, etc. thanks to the new tax law will be a cause of rates going higher as well, but not a reason to turn bearish on equities when the economy is set to grow.
IF this weekly trend pans out, which seems likely, we may have a good way to time the top, and by then, we should see traders turn bullish on stocks once more, like it happened at the top in February.
Cheers,
Ivan Labrie.
BTCUSD: 3-Day timeframe flashing a buy...It seems like we might get a rally back to test weekly sellers in the vicinity of $8400, by Mid September. If this is the case we might go sideways near the top to then resume the decline, after sentiment becomes too complacent and people believe the bear market is over. Currently, we might see unwinding of shorts positions due to the ETF news, which would make it more advantageous for futures traders to flip long and reshort back at the previous short zone where they likely entered, around $8400+-.
I covered my shorts and flipped long at 6360, if we don't break this week's low, we will likely see the bullish scenario outlined here pan out, but we need to remain ready to exit and flip short once it's clear this rally topped, since the long term chart remains potentially bearish until at least May 2019, and given the fact that Mt Gox coins are likely to hit the market by Feb 2019, it's unlikely that long term investors would risk it without hedging at least. As a sidenote, most altcoins are also acting strong, with $ETH, $ZRX and $ZIL, to name a few, looking very constructive for further upside.
Since the market has less participation following the top in December 2017, chart signals become harder to determine, or at least win rate could potentially suffer. So far we have fared really well, but it's always wise to control risk not getting married to positions, and sizing them correctly.
Best of luck,
Ivan Labrie.
SPY: Up to date daily/weekly analysisThe recent correction that affected the US stock market is likely over for the time being, the weekly uptrend can resume here, but, consider that we are still during a longer term consolidation phase, following the end of a 2-month timeframe uptrend expiration back in December. The big correction we had after peaking in February further confirms the idea that one pattern was completed, and a cool down phase is likely to materialize, as is clear that is happening now.
I suppose we might see a mostly bullish trend until mid term election fears surface.
Best of luck,
Ivan Labrie.
Disclaimer: I'm not long $SPY myself, but instead hold a portfolio of individual stocks that offer considerably higher returns than the index potentially.
AUDUSD: Potential mid-term bottom!Very interesting opportunity in FX right now. $AUDUSD appears to have bottomed after a significant correction took place since the last monthly peak. We may have a chance to ride it back up, all the way to the top. I'm long from here, with tight stops.
Best of luck!
Ivan Labrie.
XAUUSD: Monthly oversold, in an uptrend...There's a chance we have the bottom in place here, I'm holding longs, aiming for a daily target to be hit by August 1st, but there's a chance this rally extends further and triggers a bigger short squeeze, pushing gold to 1550-1650 over time. Commitment of traders data shows commercial hedgers have been unwinding short positions, which has been a signal for local intermediate term bottoms, like the ones in Dec 2015, Dec 2016, July 2017 and Dec 2017.
Quarterly support held, we have a very oversold signal here and good evidence to support a rally in gold, commodities and currencies against the dollar. I still hold long positions in equities, but I have longs in EURUSD and Gold as well.
As a sidenote, recently I reached extreme levels of capitulation, personally, trying to go long prematurely before, and I saw that Peter Schiff was talking positively about Bitcoin after a debate with Erik Vorhees, and even was seen sending his first Bitcoin transaction. I see this as more evidence of a bottom in gold here, thinking like a contrarian.
Best of luck,
Ivan Labrie.