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SLR Policy Decisions the root of InflationThis idea is a primer for ideas on how the FEDs decision to suspend the Supplemental Leverage Ratio for COVID and Implement the Overnight Reverse Repo while printing QE has led to the complete collapse of the bond market and began the era of sticky inflation. If you overlay the 10Y Breakeven Inflation rate with Year over Year then circle the dates when Jerome Powell Eased SLR for covid and when it expired and implemented changes to overnight repo. You get a clear sense of how the policy decisions around SLR/Overnight Repo while continuing to print dollars is a clear driver for a decline in bonds and equities while also driving up inflation, DXY and Commodities. TLT has completed a massive multi-year head and shoulders and over a half dozen daily bear flags. TLT recently broke through 2014 lows and already flagging lower to 2008 levels. More to come. It's a fascinating time to analyze markets. Wish you saw this coming? Hit the like and follow. Below are charts and ideas I created with warning signs over the past 2 years (I didn't know what some of them meant at the time) but I do now.
NASDAQ:TLT
by SPYvsGME
TLT, UST10Y and SPY - a heads up relationshipI read somewhere recently about two co-relationships between bond prices/yields and the SPY. First was about TLT - where TLT goes, the market (SPY) follows it was said. Second, was about the UST10Y (US Treasury 10 Year Yields) having to abate its bull run before the SPY cools its bearish rout. So, I took the opportunity to put these thoughts together visually and overlaid their charts. Interesting observations between these three it seems... There are three highlighted periods in 2022, all of which provide a very similar pattern. Notably, the UST10Y has a tight inverse relationship with the TLT (UST 20Y Bond ETF), which is expected. And if we follow the markings in order... The time line starts the cycle where TLT brings the SPY higher as the two are in alignment to move higher, where the UST10Y drops. Then there is a period where the UST10Y rises, and the TLT falls, but the SPY continues to countertrend (from TLT) and head upwards. This is not sustainable and TLT gave heads up of that (red shaded red box). Int he rest of the red box period, this is where the SPY stop diverging with TLT and follows TLT int he downward move. The shaded red box is the period where TLT is like a leading indicator of the SPY. To restart this whole cycle, it also seems that TLT needs to have a MACD crossover, and a MFI Histo crossover; the time lines mark the MFI Histo crossover after the MACD cross over. Given these patterns, the current situations appears to favor a continued downside drift, at least until a MACD crossover, post MACD bullish divergence, and then a MFI Histo crossover. This would appear to take several weeks more. Heads up!
NASDAQ:TLT
by Auguraltrader
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
$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
$TLT: Preparing to buy when safeI am monitoring bonds here, as we are approaching the target of a weekly down trend signal that fired recently, while the monthly timeframe trend is about to reach its end. By the end of September, the odds of a reversal in bonds will be very high, while equities are looking like they could crash lower from here possibly, and we could get inflation to come down, likely due to the effect of recessionary forces at play thanks to Powell's hawkishness. Since the Federal Reserve is hell bent on killing inflation hiking rates, and the data they use won't make them worry about this course of action until it's likely too late, odds of something breaking badly here are substantial. As such, I'm eager to spot the bottom in $TLT / $ZROZ to invest. We have a decent enough juncture here, where it starts making sense to pay attention to reversal cues in multiple timeframes and monitor signals closely to go long big time when confirmed. Best of luck, Ivan Labrie.
NASDAQ:TLTLong
by IvanLabrie
Ok that's it....Publishing this chart, I have been wrong on TLT for a while now. although I don't think my charting is completely inaccurate. So I welcome ideas and your opinions if you're willing to share. I believe this is significant time and that we are at the convergence of both technicals and macro factors. Technicals : We are on the support line that was created by the two lows on mid-Dec 2016 and late Oct 2018. that Support line coincides with the the apex of the falling wedge that originated on March 15 2021 - the Statistics about WEdges aren't the best. Numbers show that they are not very reliable at indicationg a trend reversal (Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns by Bulkowski). While I am hopeful this would be part of a bottom formation and reversal, I am not super confident. If we break that 106.... there is lot of downside to come. Macro : Wednesday will be the potential 100bps increase by the fed which would result in the sentiment that peak inflation seemingly behind us and the possible "official" announcement of recession seem to be the most important factor for a bounce in TLT. Ok, so I would be bullish from here and will DCA a bit more this month. Hope this helps.
NASDAQ:TLTLong
by joce-69003
5
Long Duration Bonds (TLT)We haven't had to manage cycle risk, on a sustained basis to the downside, since 2008-2009 and 2000-2002. The biggest problem in financial markets right now is there's no Event. This is just Cycle-Risk and we haven't had to manage cycle risk - on a sustained basis to the downside - since '08-'09, and 2000-2000 before then. The Fed is in QT. Financial conditions are still in accommodative territory, according to the Financial Conditions Index, and we have a long way to go. We will not see any dovish actions from the Fed until the economy deteriorates significantly. I'm convinced we're past the peak in terms of inflationary pressures. Looking at our portfolio, the #1 thing we aren't allocated to is duration. I think the long bond could rally 20-35% from here. I think when it moves, it's not going to let you back in the trade. The world is short-duration right now. Tons of cash on the sidelines. The dollar rising has been supporting U.S. equities. When it deflates, there will be a significant change in style factors. Expect a significant reversal in sector and style factors ahead. Simple rule on when to enter a long bond trade: It's compelling, given historical backtest, to go long the long bond when the year-over-year inflation rate peaks. (18-20% annualized) YoY Inflation data: fred.stlouisfed.org NFCI: fred.stlouisfed.org
NASDAQ:TLTLong
by RHTrading
Recessions and the Flight to SafteyEven though the great recession was ongoing for almost a year prior to being dated by the NBER, it was the announcement itself that started the massive migration from stocks to bonds. The purple square encapsulates this time range. It is best to enter this position before an announcement, which some market participants did. At the current growth rate, we will be in a recession anywhere around October - January, after mass layoffs result in unemployment across the economy. The NBER has responded more quickly in dating the more recent COVID-19 2020 recession, which lasted only a few months and announced around four months after it started.
NASDAQ:TLTLong
by coinhoIio
1
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Long the Treasury MarketHave you ever been told that stocks only go up? How about not trying to time the market? If you have, you might just be the exit liquidity the credit market needs. In this chart I will help you avoid losing money in the next two quarters by rolling your portfolio into cash and the treasury market. If you have followed the last few charts, you are already sitting in a cash portfolio as we head into a disinflationary period. That's right, inflation has already peaked even though the credit market is pricing in a potential 100 basis point hike this month. What isn't being priced in is the recession coming around q4 or q1. This is an opportunity for you to roll some cash into the treasury market and make some gains on top of not losing money. You may have heard something like "the treasury market is broken bro". This is from people that don't understand the dynamics of the treasury market. The treasury instruments do not perform well when interests rates are going up, but the up and coming recession will sharply slice inflation in a very short period of time. This will result in a fed pause. This isn't priced in yet because interest expectations are too high to account for a rapid recessionary disinflation. Look at how quickly TLT started to make gains after the fed stimulated the economy during the pandemic. This is the ideal time to start a DCA into the treasury market because the credit market is still struggling to come to terms with the fact that a soft landing isn't going to happen. When they do, the treasuries will pump in anticipation of a fed pause or even a pivot. I don't think a pivot will happen without a pause, but the credit market, being the pack of wild dogs they are, will conflate the two. This is a trade that might have a very small bit of downside to it at first because of a potential basis point increase, so if you can't handle that, a DCA over the next month or two is best.
NASDAQ:TLTLong
by coinhoIio