Dollar to Resume Sideways/Downtrend Price Action TomorrowTraders,
From a technical perspective, the dollar is doing exactly as it should. Technical analyst should have expected a retest of what was previously very strong support. We have now observed that retest and the dollar has permission to continue its descent. If descent is not immediate, sideways action can be expected. But, least likely, is the possibility that the dollar re-breaks the macro uptrend to the top side. Vix data correlates with the continuation of the dollar's descent.
And with continued dollar descent, we should observe the market to continue onwards and upwards. Crypto will continue to follow.
Stew
VIX CBOE Volatility Index
First Strike, 7 Feb 2023🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
➤ Equities opened lower and ended from where it started. The more speculate stocks selling off more than the Bluechips. This was sufficient to get me into the Bearish mode.
➤ S&P500 is now trading below the double resistance line. I see the potential for it to drop some more. I'm using a small amount of capital to take a short position.
➤ This is also the first "live" test trade for my volatility strategy. This test involves using real capital in real trading conditions but with a small portfolio allocation.
➤ The play book going forward was outlined yesterday: A short opportunity first. This then opens up the second set of opportunities offering the high conviction trades. Increasing short positions as price weakens further with continued selling pressure or reverse with long positions if Bulls come in and support the price to invalidate the short set-up.
➤ Conclusion: Back in the game.
BTC Momentum Gone? USD + VIX say so Hi
The question these days is how much momentum do we have left in the current BTC bull run, I would love to see a leg down so we gather enough momentum to open a weekly candle above 25k. As things stand right now, there is not much to the downside for both USD and VIX and this indicates that there is not much momentum for liquidity for risk-class assets such as BTC left. On the flip side both USD and VIX have a lot of room to the upside which is going to pull money out of risk-class assets and if that happens the TA on the BTC graphs wont do much good as the market is going to react accordingly. I will be closely monitoring this myself.
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VIX: Another Warning Sign!Hello friends, today you can review the technical analysis idea on a 1M linear scale chart for the Volatility S&P 500 Index (VIX).
In this chart, you can see the VIX moving along a support trendline. When the VIX spikes upwards that means the markets (specifically S&P 500; generally all markets) start to move downwards. Every few years the VIX starts to slowly move upwards on a new support and resistance trend line before coming back down to the bottom support line. The current structure of the VIX looks very similar to the formation of the Great Recession so I show that on the chart as a possibility. I also note two support and resistance lines which the VIX could move on as it moves higher. Lastly noted is the RSI which is moving up a support line. This is a monthly chart so have some patience.
I may be completely wrong with the prediction of the VIX moving higher, but with the inflation issue, global economic condition, stock markets crashing, companies preparing for a downturn, interest rates moving higher, the US Dollar Index (DXY) moving higher and crypto market crashing, I would assume my prediction may be on point.
Click on the chart below on why I exited the crypto and stock market in December 2021:
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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
I Smell Opportunity, 6 Feb 2023🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
➤ Equities are at an interesting juncture that should provide good trading opportunities. I can smell it.
➤ If we look at the $SPY chart of the S&P500 equity index, we can see that the price is in the midst of testing resistance levels. These resistance lines are probably the most solid since the start of the rally. I therefore foresee the chance that price may settle or retrace downwards from current levels.
➤ Friday price action was a great example. The price was "trapped" entirely between the confluence of key levels. The question is where does it go next?
➤ For me, I really don't know nor do I care. All I really care about is if it will provide trading opportunities long or short. I can see both scenarios playing out. Perhaps a short opportunity first. This then opens up the second set of opportunities offering the high conviction trades. Either prices weaken further with continued selling pressure or the Bulls come in and support the price to pump prices higher.
➤ Conclusion: I'm ready to play.
VIX is doji'ing on a very interesting spot. 🤔
I noticed last week that the VIX is just chillin on a trendline that goes back 5 or so years. It also closed a doji on the weekly on top of said line. This happens all while we are at major resistance on almost anything tradable.
Bears about to show the claw? 🐻 Comment below!
Pivotal week (or 2) ahead for the S&P The S&P500 / ES is sitting right at a critical point which I believe will break this week or next
The weekly chart shows that the S&P is now above most key moving averages, including the 200 moving average (displayed in black), the 20 moving average (displayed in white) and the 50 moving average (displayed in yellow). Also it has broken above the upper resistance trend line (displayed in red), these are all obviously very bullish but a few major headwinds remain that may upset this upwards momentum.
Price last week touched the 100 moving average (displayed in blue) but then rejected back down to end up finishing right at the Fib Extension 0.236 level. Ironically the 100 moving average has been a menacing level that has been difficult for the S&P to break through, 7 weeks ago and 21 weeks ago exactly the same touch and rejection of the 100ma occurred. Further to this we are about to enter one of the most bearish seasonal periods of the year for the S&P, I've included a seasonality indicator in my chart which shows 3 year, 6 year and 9 year tendencies and they all have exactly the same downwards pattern starting in February. The indicator below the Seasonality scan is RVI (relative volatility index), this is good for measuring both the volatility along with direction. Inline with what the market has been doing the past few years the RVI had been generally trending up and created a support line that was largely unbroken from end 2018 - Jan 2022, and since been broken the RVI is now showing a downwards trend and instead of a support line there is a resistance level over head that price is close to approaching.
The last indicator on the chart includes Larry Williams Vix_Fix which had turned red recently (2 bars/weeks), signalling we are in historically low volatility period in the VIX, most traders know that large moves often follow periods of very low and/or contracting volatility. This last indicator also includes a display for the bond yield curve and this is currently shown in the maroon/deep red which confirms a fairly long period inverted curve which is also known as a precursor sign of recession and market sell off.
The recent closed weekly candle was an indecision candle so this week that is coming or perhaps the one that follows should tell a lot about where the market will be heading over the course of the next few months
A bullish bias would mean
Price this coming week will disregard the seasonal bearish tendency and instead break above both the 100ma and the 0.236 Fib and close the week above these levels.
A bearish bias would mean
Price has closed back below the resistance level on the chart (both price resistance & RVI resistance) and price has tracked the normal declining seasonal pattern that plays out around this time of the year.
I see more chart evidence of a coming decline than an incline but in any case we still need to wait for direction confirmation which should look like one of the above scenarios. So it is time to pay very close attention to the charts and In the week that follows the market direction confirmation signal I suspect we will see some large and fast moves of either sideline money coming into the market to cause one last blow off top before some kind of recession sell off later in the year or heavy selling as these key levels get rejected and the seasonal sell of takes hold.
Gme looking good
Some people have been worried about NYSE:GME and if the cycles were dead. Good news gme looks to still be on the cycle. Bad news Nov opex was in November. Shocked Pickachu face. After falling from the August run up gme stayed flat (1) while other meme stocks like NYSE:AMC and NASDAQ:TSLA fell (2). Because gme didn't get shorted it had a weak barely noticeable Nov Opex. however, as you can see other meme stocks did have a Nov opex (and you can even see gme did too albeit a small one). No shorting no opex. This may be disappointing for people still waiting for it. Good news however is after Nov opex all the meme stocks got shorted (3) and we seem to in the middle of bouncing from that (4). In short gme was dead sept 7th -dec 7th but now appears to be back on track.
Gamestop correlates strongly with inverse VIX. Correlation broke on Oct 31st 2022 for some reason and restored Jan 6th 2023.I believe we may be playing out the Vix movement from Oct 31st onwards delayed. VIX has gone down since then so we should go up.Vix has kept its trend and should go lower today and Gme should pop today. I believe we may be playing out delayed price action from when correlation broke (labeled with a 4) Would like to see a 10% up day and to break 24 today. Other meme stocks have rebounded to the price level they were at before they got shorted down. I expect gme to eventually get back to $25-$27. Depending on optiion interest that could cause a large run up past that. Also, ftd's have started on gme again stocksera.pythonanywhere.com and are due in febuary further helping gme. all in all, it's been a rough several months, but everything is looking really good for a run on gme soon.
VIX vs BTC - Inverse Correlation for price prediction $BTC vs $VIX and $SPX vs $VIX the inverse correlation of VIX to SPX is no secret, and applying VIX onto a BTC chart shows how much BTC is more and more correlated to the SnP, this is a good tool to have in any traders arsenal. The beauty of VIX is that it is based on expiring index options, which makes it relatively accurate in estimating volatility. I think SPX and BTC correlation will increase especially this year as the markets will become more and more liquidity strapped.
For extra info
a- The Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, is a real-time market index representing the market’s expectations for volatility over the coming 30 days.
b- Investors use the VIX to measure the level of risk, fear, or stress in the market when making investment decisions.
c- Traders can also trade the VIX using a variety of options and exchange-traded products, or they can use VIX values to price derivatives.
d- The VIX generally rises when stocks fall, and declines when stocks rise.
Source: www.investopedia.com
Breaking Loose, 3rd Feb 2023🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
➤ ...almost but not yet. There are still some short-term resistance levels to surpass. However, the momentum is there. *After-hours sell-off as I write due to earning reports from Apple, Google etc.
➤ The Dow30 Bluechip stocks are really being left behind in this latter part of the rally. Or we could say the NASDAQ is just catching up on lost time. There is some sector rotation here and the rally is not all that uniform despite many commenting on the "strong" breadth i.e. wide participation of stocks in the rally.
➤ I'm expecting at least a pause in proceedings to work off the extreme overbought conditioins. I currently hold no position.
➤ Conclusion: This may be nearing the end of the short squeeze.
Meta and Tesla Priced richly again, dow ignored, fear lowForward growth seems to be priced back into these hot high volume in the news stocks. Both Tesla and Facebook/meta have almost doubled in the last month.
Dividend dow is not shunned and ignored as hot stocks are back in style.
Fear in vix and junk bonds is low.
Everyone Believes What They Want to BelieveRealty != Belief
The secret to this market is to lower your expectation continually.
Bulls do not realize they are sitting in the largest bull trap ever setup.
Macro bottom still pending... it's more of the same: drop, consolidate, drop.
A wise Bera once said:
Resistance is infinite and unbounded.
When a level is broken, there will always be more resistance higher up.
Support is not though, support is capped at 0.
The Fed's view:
www.federalreserve.gov
What does the Beveridge curve tell us about the likelihood of a soft landing?
"It would be unprecedented for job vacancies (openings) to decline by a large amount without the economy falling into recession. We are, in effect, saying that something unprecedented can occur."
Lagging Crash
Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy on September 15, 2008.
The broader stock market did not begin its crash until a week later.
Everyone initially thought Lehman wasn't a systemic risk.
You say crypto crash can not crash stocks with a LAG?
The doom loop is accelerating.
Few understand this.
The Resistance, 2nd Feb 2023🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
➤ February started off with a bang as equity participants responded favourably to the US interest rate decision. Notable was the strong performance of the NASDAQ and the flat performance in the Bluechip Dow 30.
➤ Price in the S&P500 equity index has reached key resistance levels. It will be interesting to see how prices react. So far in after-hours trading prices have kept moving higher but this is generally unreliable.
➤ At these levels, the price is heavily overextended to the upside. Therefore I am not joining in the fun. The price can keep rising and defy gravity but usually this happens after setting all time highs. We are not in that situation. The higher probability is for some sort of retracement or sideways movement to ease out of the overbought zone.
➤ Conclusion: Waiting for better opportunities.
YOU need to see this now - THE DANGER LINEThis is a wave trend indicator on the S&P 500 index that is based on relative strength with straightforward oversold or overbought conditions. Relative strength is a measure of momentum where both speed (time) and magnitude (change) is measured and plotted with simple or weighted moving averages.
What you are seeing above is a snapshot of a RSI/wave trend of the S&P 500 index based on monthly candles. Understand that it takes the measure of a month of time just to get a single plot of data and this particular snapshot represents over two decades. But right before your eyes are very clear trends. The data is just pure and simple math and math does not lie. Ignore the news. Follow price, volume, momentum.. just follow the data.
I will try not to state my opinion too much.. and just follow the data. What I see on the chart is concerning. If this decline continues over the next month or two, momentum is going to accelerate and volatility go up while the market basically crashes... i.e. if the DANGER LINE is breached. I found it odd that volatility (VIX) has been quite docile considering the amount of downside we've seen in the indices this year. That is concerning. It is entirely possible that the September thru November monthly candles are positive and this trend finds support.. and the danger line is not breached. On the flipside, this decent can continue and really pick up speed and we see a 2000-2003 correction or 2007-2009.
Here is an overlay snapshot with those corrections to similar scale. That is what could happen if the current trend continues.. we could see 12-24 months of recession and very steep drops and sharp bearish reversals. Be careful, manage risk, consider hedging certain positions, and know that you DO NOT know what is going to happen.
🟨 I spoke about this 2 months ago in DEC22
The position of the $VIX under 20 is a key milestone for the bullish market.
Since 22 this has been an indication of key reversals - hence if:
– This correlation breaks and VIX continues to stay low
– Market acts bullish on today's FED communication
We might have something to work on.