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Simple Credit Indicator to Watch Out for Equity InvestorThere is a classic saying that credit markets tend to lead equity markets. The rationale is that credit investors are solely more concerned about downside risk (as they worry whether coupons will be paid and whether they will get their principal back at maturity) and measure risks and determine spreads - over the risk free/benchmark rate - by factoring in the probability of default into the spreads amongst other factors. While equity investors, given their ability to participate on the upside as opposed to debt/credit investor, tend to be more forward looking with an optimistic bias (glass half full attitude). Hence, credit tends to turn first when risk is slowly bubbling in the cauldron. That's what I've been told anyway. Without further ado, if you refer to the chart published, you will be able to see how credit has played out during the past few crisis. Data used are S&P500 and ICE BofA US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread (inverted)
TVC:SPX
by RinjaniCapital
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BB - BBB spread offers opportunitiesIn a world where everything seems expensive the BB bond still seems Attractive in comparison to BBB rates corporate debt. The BB continues to offer a nice spread 143 BP spread over its BBB relative. Now with that in mind one must remember recently for the first time ever HY (high yield) corporate debt now yields below the rate of inflation, however with the FED backstopping the risk associated with HY by buying up junk bonds it definitely deserves a look. The BB offers a possible opportunity similar to short term yield, but the risk would be classified as closer to investment-grade. As BB is obviously the highest level of HY debt out there. The leverage ratios of BBs are closely related to BBBs. Default rates for BBs also have only been about 50BP higher than that of BBBs. BBs also have a low risk premium in comparison to the rest of the HY corporate debt sector. It is definitely something to look into further.
FRED:BAMLH0A1HYBBEYLong
by mehmetoguz0010
Macro - Reading The CurveForecast for Macro: - Falling Wedge Breakout must be re-tested. - Bear Flattener coming as short-term rates rise with Fed tightening expectations: - 2x ATR spike in US02Y: - The Fed members will probably all have their turn to make comments, leaning hawkish. This should cause a rally in the US02Y. - Bonds Volatility Technically Bullish: - However, this will be followed by a steepener, respecting the Falling Wedge Breakout, as the Fed implements monetary policies to control Deflation, creating a Stagflation environment. - US30Y, this is bearish and deflationary: - USOIL, deflationary. The US economy depends on Oil: - US Manufacturing Employment Index, looks to be at the top of the range, and on a decline: - Capital goods are the heart of every economy. Without manufacturing employment, no capital goods. No capital goods, no innovation. - CN30Y, also bearish and deflationary: - China's Credit Impulse, and consequently - global credit impulse turns negative. - No more credit flows means no more liquidity to flow into risk assets. - M2V declining, if the economy was booming and growing, money velocity should be increasing: - Business destruction cannot be inflationary. Thriving tech businesses lead the recovery, but Tech is inherently deflationary. - Reading the curve will be critical to see the macro turns coming! GLHF - DPT
TVC:US05Y
by UnknownUnicorn1043646
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Black Swan - US-China Phase 1 DealSpeculation for Macro: - 2018: Trump began trade war with China, and the market had the worst year in a decade (at the time). - 2020: US-China Phase 1 deal is signed, market crashes shortly after. - 2021: Market immediately rebounds and has the greatest bull market in history. IMO it was a run-up then sell the news by insiders, then BTD for the bull run to come. That deal is to expire 2022, and will likely be assessed soon. Check out the behavior of SKEW/VVIX/PCR right before the Trade Deal... Does somebody know something? Even if it is renewed, it is bullish long term but very likely a big flush for insiders to BTD. If China withdraws, it's recession - returning to a situation similar to 2018 with a tariff tit-for-tat except with current supply chain issues, pandemic, massive debt levels, and slowing global economy. One part of the deal entails China refraining from competitive devaluation of their currency. However, US is devaluing their currency through inflation (speculated). That is bullish for US equities, but CNYUSD is now at the top of a range: Should the deal expire, and China devalues their currency, the US will need to respond with more debt. Can the world handle more debt? Phase 1 Deal: www.reuters.com Full text found here: web.archive.org GLHF - DPT
SP:SPXShort
by UnknownUnicorn1043646
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Macro - Global Inflation Expectations Rolling OverSpeculation for Macro: These are the underlying conditions: - Inflation expectations are what leads risk appetite. After all, who would hold or buy an asset expected to depreciate in value? - Global inflation expectations turning down and have been in a downtrend for decades. Of course it is deflationary. If DEBT fueled GDP growth (for appearances over results) misses expectations vs. the underlying conditions, what can you really do? - AMZN missing expectations is a hint. Bonds and currencies lie less than stocks. Stocks are the last to get the message. AMZN - This is a pattern prevalent globally right now. Look how it resolved in HSI, and now AMZN: - Druckenmiller says that funds position for 18 months in advance. The sell-off in tech and lack of interest is a huge tell. In decelerating markets, sector losers will be sold off heavily. - If you cant stimulate earnings & job growth by dumping money into stock buybacks, then you have failed. You will have price inflation ONLY, but it is not creating GDP growth nor lasting means to do so. Only raising DEBT, and then when you take away QE/negative rates you are left with nothing but high prices, and a big asset bubble. Now, we are to assume that investors will keep bidding up assets that are expected to depreciate in value? No they will just sell, and money managers see what is coming just from AMZN + GDP missing expectations. - When you only have price inflation, but the population not accumulating capital, it will lead to consumers being priced out of discretionaries and demand will decrease. You will revert society back to demanding bare necessities, rather than creating innovation. - You can keep pouring in money through QE, but rates cant go more negative... CBs will just eventually hold all of their own negative yielding debt and keep printing money when nobody is actually giving you money for the debt? How does it create GDP growth when the money they print is depreciating in value vs. existing debt which needs to eventually be financed? - Debt is the deflationary force that money printing is fighting against. They need the economy such that it can eat away the debt without them pouring money into it, but if companies fail to produce increasing revenue while debt is increasing, they have failed. - Then for the next crisis, your are left with no options except to lie down and take it. - Institutional money will begin to sell off as they realize what is happening and data factors begin to confirm this trend. Global Liquidity Providers with a red flag: Softbank: Evergrande: Bitcoin/Blackrock - US equities have yet to factor in the selloff in Bitcoin (Bitcoin is the US liquidity provider/Shadow Bank IMO): - What is the Trigger to actually sell the US equities though? How to action this global shift? Its very tricky obviously, but I am looking at the leaders (FAANG) which have upheld the bull run up till now as hard supports vs. the weakening market breadth. That's why AMZN is an important cue for me. - Asia is the key. As we know, China is attempting to pop their asset bubble, and it is creating a deflationary wave which has reached HK and now Japan. It will spillover to EU and US without question. - You can see the COVID and other fears being set up to be blamed as a 'catalyst' to blame, rather than CB's blatant failure to navigate the crisis. - Of course, stocks aren't the economy... but when smart money realizes that revenue will decline, and no value will be created for them, of course they will sell. i.e. Its going to translate to revenue, innovation, dividends and stock buybacks. I expect a correction at the very least in the near future in US equities, and a big one in the mid-long term. All I can do is short the setups and prepare for the big one. But where will investors put their money then? - Dollars, housing and bonds from the looks of it. Anything to escape the tail risk in equities. Even the junkiest of yields are below inflation as investors seek yield. - It is a bit sinister, because the Fed is buying bonds and MBS's, and eventually it will be returned in theory. So they retain the ability to strike down the havens. When new instruments which are riskier and riskier are created so that investors can obtain yield and institutions can sell their risk to them, it piles on more risk into the system, such that the threshold for a tail event is lowered. That is probably where the liquidity eventually flows to. Just because there is an immense amount of money in the system doesn't mean investors won't sell that risk. When everyone is risk-on, wouldn't it create more yield to just flush risk assets first and then buy the dip? The great Black Swan here is that inflation is indeed transitory. It would mean that even QE Infinity and negative rates cannot stimulate the economy. How it Unfolds: - While M Money Stock has increased, it has done little to reduce debt vs. money, nor increased GDP (growth YoY). - The Credit Cycle is the beginning of liquidity flows. The global credit impulse is negative, meaning new inflationary credit is not created, and eventually, debt will be called instead. Inflation will be destroyed. Debt is at an all time high. - For debt to be serviced, those institutions which have sold debt must now pull liquidity from assets in order to service the debt. While the assets have appreciated in monetary value, they have depreciated vs. debt, meaning that they will need to return more M Money than they borrowed. This means that at the end of it, there will be a money SHORTAGE! GLHF - DPT
TVC:US30YShort
by UnknownUnicorn1043646
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Market Outlook WeeklyTVC:SPX using a log chart I channeled the market since it's inception. The top of the channel (in red) is exclusively where the major stock market crashes have happened. The bottom channel (in green) is "crash free." The bold purple line is where 3 of last 4 market crashes have happened. Since the "Nixon Shock," $spx has failed to breach this line, except during the "dot-com bubble." U.S. inflation rates are rising, the Buffet Indicator (divide by US GDP on the chart) is at an all time high, and the CAPE (SPX ECY on chart) is starting to. rise, like it has at the top of every crash. However, a major crash has not when CAPE is above that black line, excluding COVID. Note: Not claiming a crash now, just saying there are some warning signals and to be cautious.
TVC:SPX
by StkMktBulldog
DXY 4W/1D/4H : DETAILED CHART Hello Everyone, If You Like The Idea, Do Not Forget To Support With A Like And Comment . Save Idea To Check In Futures Also . We Will Add Fundamental Ideas Also But For Now Focus On Technical Analyze . Let's Start With 4W Chart : Sometimes Basic Things Can Play Big Role On Your Prediction So Please Focus On HH/HL Of Chart . This Stage Can't Go Higher Than 120.128 And For Now Got Heavy Rejection From 102.992 . Double Top Formation Worked But Still Not Finished . Personally Waiting Next Bearish Impulse To Enter Next Stage . - RSI : Already Under 50 Point - MAcd : About TO Confirm " M " Formation 1D Chart : If We Are Going TO Break 94.422 Point We Will See Quick And Impulsive Movement To 94.472 . We See Red Candle At The Moment But We Can Take Power Between 92.628 - 91.796 Range . RSI : Bearish Divergence 4H Chart : Pattern Needs To Break Maximum End Of The July In Conclusion : Personally I'm Very Bullish On DXY But After Fed's Falcon Talks We Sow Some Bullish Impulse . In A Bigger Picture Its Clear That We Are Going To Do LL And Double Top Is Our HH For This Stage . In A Short Term We Can See Dump And Pump But In A Mid Term Bat Formation Is Our Maximum Point Where We Can Touch . Its Hard To Predict Time In TA But Chart Says That 31 August Our Final Day Or Nearest . Important : Please Use RM (Risk Management) and MM (Money Management) If You Decide To Use My Ideas, There Will Always Be Unprofitable Ideas, This Will Definitely Happen, The Goal Of The System Is That There Will Be More Profitable Ideas At A Distance.
TVC:DXY
by Cryptorganism
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Black Swan - US Debt DefaultSpeculation for Black Swan: - Liquidity being sucked out of the system o/n RRP nearly 1T. - G4 Central Banks' liquidity (B/S YoY %) rolled over globally (Global liquidity peaked and collapsing). - US Debt and global debt at ATH and parabolic. - Global Credit Impulse turns negative. - Global productivity stagnating, through debt-fueled artificial economy. - Rates more negative than housing boom of 2000s. - All asset classes parabolic and market at a 100Y resistance. - "Central banks have bought $900 million of financial assets every hour in past 15 months" - BofA No more room for debt for next crisis. Won't be long now. Debasement of USD coming. en.wikipedia.org www.bloomberg.com GLHF - DPT
TVC:DXY
by UnknownUnicorn1043646
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Black Swan - Transitory InflationIdea for Macro: - I present to you a counterargument for the media blaring inflation narrative. - Speculate that the interest rate hikes (Jackson Hole, etc.) are just red herrings. In fact rates may go negative. - The real shocker is that everybody is positioned for inflation when inflation is at its peak and is indeed transitory. The reflation trade was debt driven and is supported by nothing but hot air. “Inflation - A continuing rise in the general price level usually attributed to an increase in the volume of money and credit relative to available goods and services” - Merriam-Webster Actually global credit impulse is rolling off. - There are 3 types of inflation that are relevant: Monetary, Consumer Price, Asset. (Lyn Alden, www.lynalden.com) Monetary Inflation: "In highly indebted economies, additional debt triggers the law of diminishing returns. This fact is confirmed when the marginal revenue product of debt (MRP) falls, where MRP is the amount of GDP created by an additional dollar of debt. In microeconomics, when debt is already at extreme levels, a further increase in debt leads to an increase in the risk premium on which a borrower will default suggesting that the bank or other lender will not be repaid. As the risk premium rises, banks are often unable to price this additional cost through to their private sector borrowers thus the loan to deposit ratio of the banks falls. Combining both the falling MRP with a declining loan to deposit (LD) ratio, results in a reduction in the velocity of money. In terms of the impact on monetary activities, a drop in the LD ratio means that more of bank deposits are being directed to the purchase of Federal, Agency and state and local securities in lieu of private sector loans. The macroeconomic result is that funds are shifted to sectors that are the least productive engines of economic growth and away from the high multiplier ones." - Too Much Debt, Hoisington Investment Management Co. - Yes, you have M2 skyrocketing, but compare it with Debt and adjust for inflation. Wow, It did nothing to debt levels. GDP adjusted for inflation barely recovered: - M2 doesn't exist in a vacuum, but needs to be balanced for deflationary forces. Debt is winning. - Yes, you have consumer price inflation and asset price inflation, but these are largely driven by speculative bubbles. They are not driven by fundamental factors nor underlying conditions. They will regress to the mean by Reflexivity. - Yes, there are supply chain issues due to COVID + political tensions, but how long will it last? Are the political tensions even necessary? What happened to lumber even with supply chain issues? - What is even the reason for continued asset purchases by CBs? IMO, asset purchase tapering is done to engineer a crash in the speculative asset bubbles, so that more extreme monetary policies can be enacted to try to stop the tidal wave of debt. Once the speculative asset bubble collapses, consumer price inflation will be controlled as well. In fact there will be a dollar shortage, as each dollar is leveraged 50x+ vs. debt. - CBs don't care about speculative asset inflation okay? Not a big deal. Bubbles even pop by themselves. Price of Big Mac and used car goes up a little bit, boohoo. - Evidence to support my thesis is falling inflation expectations. Inflation expectations are what drives asset prices up. If inflation is expected to decrease, then the prices of assets are expected to decrease. Why would anyone hold an asset expected to depreciate in price? Signals of falling inflation expectations: Inflationary yields: Inflationary currency pairs: FRED inflation expectation rate: fred.stlouisfed.org Gold - you might see something crazy happen here. This can be the end of a distribution pattern: Inflationary Commodities: - The stock market is one of the last markets to receive liquidity trickling down from the source. Currencies, bonds, commodities lead them and stocks should not be used as an indicator for future inflation expectations over them. - Right now, the world is positioned for inflation and are looking for interest rate hikes as the signal, but that won't be catalyst. - Inflation and liquidity flows have been cut off at the source, and now we are at the cliff of the debt driven sugar rush. There must be great suffering in order to justify more extreme monetary policies. Then and only then will you have sticky inflation in a stagflationary environment. "Inflation is transitory" - Jerome Powell GLHF - DPT P.S. Disclaimer - I am relentlessly selling risk assets, long volatility and bonds.
FRED:WM2NS
by UnknownUnicorn1043646
2
Credit - US10Y to DeclineIdea for US10Y: - US10Y will decline - institutional fear > buy safe bonds. - Positive correlation in yields/equities right now (extreme periods) - Markets are topped, this will cause a decline in equities. - UST signaling deflationary shock. Yes, you will have inflation win out in the end, but you can have deflationary shock to get Fed to enact more extreme monetary policies. You can have negative growth during price inflation. Reminder that major crashes are preceded by capitulation in yields: GLHF - DPT
TVC:US10YShort
by UnknownUnicorn1043646
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Macro - "A Permanently High Plateau"Idea for Oil/Macro: - The bottom line is that the inflation narrative is driven by one commodity - Oil. - Price is at a 40 year resistance. - The only thing actually holding up the price of oil is OPEC+ agreeing to cut production (Artificial inflation). - QE is actually deflationary, all it does is put a floor on markets and suppresses volatility and creates speculative bubbles, the money doesn't directly leave the banking system. All bubbles pop. - Right now there is price inflation due to supply chain disruptions and commodity prices - but speculative bubbles in commodity prices are already collapsing. They will all follow. - Global productivity is on a decline, see GDP Growth Rate, World Manufacturing Output. - The artificial growth you see now is debt driven. See Debt as % of GDP. Appearances over results. - Unemployment numbers can be suppressed with cheap and unskilled jobs, but take a look at declining quality of jobs. - Equity prices follow forward inflation expectations. They are falling: fred.stlouisfed.org Why would anyone buy a risk asset when inflation is expected to decline? They would just be in appreciating cash. - The reversal is caused by the global credit impulse. Credit is an actual inflationary force. - What is happening now in Equities is that banks and companies are simply using margin debt for leveraged stock buybacks, boosting EPS. - Zombie companies are not allowed to fail, and money losers are flooding the market with shares - raising more money than moneymakers. This is Euphoria. - However, easy credit is over. Now credit contractions are spilling over to US - see Wells Fargo cutting personal lines of credit. - Debt will be called, particularly from overseas - see Evergrande. - PBOC has been draining liquidity in China via RRP, US preparing to do the same via RRP. It is the first step of Tapering and the effects will be felt in the coming weeks. If you think about it, it does not make sense for the economy to be booming during a global pandemic crisis, despite what the media is blaring. It is debt fueled, and can it handle the next crisis? The pandemic is not even over yet, by a long shot. If you have an understanding of the internals of markets, correlations and the liquidity flows, you can see macro trends as they develop and predict them. When oil reverses, the reflation trade will be over. Same with gold - this can be a distribution pattern (the inflation fears were priced in and distributed already): Bitcoin - Speculative risk asset already collapsed: Lumber - Great canary and speculative risk asset collapsed: It's all the same story for bond yields and currencies: DXY - Dollar seems to have found a base: Bond Yields: AUDJPY: EURUSD: CHFAUD - Indicating some fear: Significant warnings: - SP500 vs Margin Debt - SP500 vs Real Earnings Yield - SP500 vs Real Dividend Yield - US Quarterly Equity Offerings - Collapsing Market Breadth - Transports turning down - Rydex Bull/Bear ratio - Market internals not confirming low volume ATHs (bearish divergences) PC Ratio reaching lows not seen for 10 years: SKEW reaching ATH while VIX is crushed - Smart money + insiders positioning in accumulation phase: We might get a few more high inflation prints due to lagging effects, but commodities will crater once retail is completely positioned for inflation. Speculate that market conditions have changed such that crashes like the COVID crash will be regular occurrence, due to the options market being the real market. Speculate the reversal Jul. 12-Jul. 14, downtrend through Aug into a capitulation on Sept Quad Witching. "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau" - Irving Fisher, 1929, days before the market began crashing to total -89.2%. GLHF - DPT
NYMEX:CL1!Short
by UnknownUnicorn1043646
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BULLISH reversal in play for the US Dollar! Following the 2008 Financial Crisis, the Federal Reserve had to apply loose monetary policy measures in order to stabilize and stimulate the economy. The Fed started lowering the Federal Funds Rate back in late 2007, as a response to the rising unemployment at the time. This is the most traditional monetary policy measure, which aims to stimulate both businesses and individuals to borrow and spend more, which in turn would lead to an increase in economic activity. When rates are low borrowing money to start a business, buy a house or a car looks much more appealing and attractive. When the economy is in a recession such monetary policy actions are helpful and needed, but if interest rates stay very low for way too long after the economy stabilizes, then the higher spending levels caused by the cheap available credit would simply lead to higher inflation. Inflation has been one of the most heavily discussed subjects so far in 2021 and rightfully so. You see, a substantial increase in inflation is a net negative for all of the major markets out there – Bonds, Stocks, USD Bonds Inflation is a bond’s worst enemy as basically a bond is a contractual agreement between a borrower (Seller of the bond) and a lender guaranteeing that the Lender (Buyer of the bond) would be receiving the bond’s Face Value at maturity plus all of the regular and fixed interest payments (coupons) up until that point. Well, considering that both the Face Value and Coupon are fixed US Dollar amounts, a higher inflation would basically erode the real returns of that bond. To put it in simple words if the yield on a 10-year Treasury bill is 2%, that means that the investor is guaranteed to get a 2% annual return on that bond investment. However, if annual inflation is at 5%, then that makes the bond investment much less appealing as an investor would be technically losing 3% per year in such environment. This is the main reason why bond yields constantly adjust to both Inflation and Interest Rate expectations. When Inflation goes up, Interest Rate expectations start shifting towards expecting a rate hike, which leads to lower bond prices and higher bond yields. This dynamic exists and occurs as in an inflationary environment bonds become less attractive and in order for demand to come back to the bond market investors need to see an adjustment in the bond yields (an increase), which will protect them against inflation and would make it worthwhile for investors to lend their money to the US government by buying these bonds instead of putting it in a savings account with the bank. The bond yields rise either when we see a rate hike or when investors expectations of a rate hike increase. This mechanic ends up protecting bond investors in a higher-interest and inflation driven environment and makes bonds more stable and attractive investment vehicles than stocks. Stocks With stocks it is much more straightforward. Stocks trade largely on current as well as discounted future corporate profits, and higher rates tend to cut into profits because they increase the cost of money. Additionally, when rates are higher that means that discounting future cash flows to the present occurs with a higher denominator, which leads to lower profitability. If the underlying reason for higher rates is inflation, rising prices and wages also increase a company's costs, which further erodes profits. As you can see higher inflation and higher rates lead to plenty of problems for stocks. USD Last but not least, inflation is also bad for the US Dollar as it erodes the purchasing power of every dollar in circulation. To put it in simple words, if you have $100,000 in your savings account earning 1% interest annually, but the inflation in the country sits at 3% you would technically lose 2% from the purchasing power of your capital, or in other words $2,000, in just 1 year. Now, after seeing why and how higher rates and higher inflation affect Bonds, Stocks and the US Dollar, you probably understand why all journalists, economists, investors, hedge fund managers, politicians, central bankers etc. are constantly discussing these topics. Inflation and Interest rates expectations are not static but rather very dynamic and are constantly modified and affected by economic reports, central bank commentary, monetary and fiscal stimulus etc. The predominant view in the market at the moment is comprised of the following elements: 1.”The US economy is on fire” – companies continue to deliver better than expected earnings, consumers are sitting on record levels of savings, people are eager to get back to their normal lives eating out, traveling, shopping. 2. “We will see 8-10% GDP growth in the 2nd half of the year” 3. “Inflation will continue to rise as a result of the low interest rate environment and the huge spending driven mostly by the heavy Fiscal Stimulus by the US Government. 4. “The Fed need to raise rates sooner in order to prevent a hyperinflation scenario” 5. “The Fed will most likely end up being behind the curve once they start tapering, which will force them to rise interest rates quicker” Now, while all of the above-listed arguments make sense to a certain extent, we believe that some of the most recent movements in the US Dollar Index (DXY) as well as the price action in the bond market, which sent bond yields lower despite the hawkish Fed in mid-June are giving us very valuable indications that there is more to that equation. We believe that the whole narrative that is circulating at the moment starts from the wrong place. Considering the fact that the US Dollar is the global reserve currency and that it has a direct impact on both US and Global inflation levels and GDP growth, every US economic analysis should start from analyzing the US Dollar performance and its possible future trends. It is true that inflation expectations affect the value of the dollar and that some people might argue that this is a “what’s first the chicken or the egg” argument, but the US Dollar is so much more than the inflation expectations that people throw at it left and right. The USD is the most influential currency in the world and depending on whether it gets stronger or weaker we see whole countries, regions and even continents either struggling or prospering. The US Dollar index (DXY) has been in a clear downtrend throughout the last 15 months, as a result of the unprecedented printing of money that we have witnessed by the Fed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic shock to the economy. The monetary M2 supply in the US increased from $15.5 trillion in February, 2020 to $18.84 trillion in October, 2020 and to $20.1 trillion in April, 2021. This represents a 21.29% increase in 2020 and a 29.7% increase year over year. Technically, such a massive printing of liquidity debases and devalues the underlying currency. As a result of that and the increased inflation speculations and worries among investors we have seen the US Dollar index dropping from $103 down to the $90 level. A lot of negativity has already been priced in the US Dollar as the logic shows that inflation will definitely be picking up, which makes it unattractive to hold significant cash reserves. Thus, everybody has been selling the USD for over a year now. However, what happened in the beginning of the year (January) was that the DXY reached the $90 strong multi-year support and found a lot of buying interest there. After a strong rebound up towards the $94 level back in April, the index came back and re-tested the $90 level and once again found a lot of buying interest, which pushed the price back up to the $92 mark in a matter of few trading sessions. This has created a clear double-bottom pattern with rising relative strength and a clear bullish interest at these levels. We believe that this is something that not many people are paying attention to as they are riding on the bandwagon that the “Dollar is going lower”. However the $90 support has been a crucial level for the DXY going all the way back to 1990s. Back in 2018 that was the exact level where the DXY stopped declining and reversed the 1.5 year long bear market that the USD was trading within since the start of 2017. The reason why we believe that the way the USD moves is so crucial at the moment comes from the fact that the main argument right now for a tighter monetary policy is associated with the “double-digit” GDP growth that everybody expects in the 2nd half of the year and the inflation that this is expected to create in the economy. Well, it seems that most people have forgotten that currency appreciation usually reduces inflation because imports become cheaper and the lower prices lead to lower inflation. It also makes imports more attractive, causing the demand for local products to fall. Local companies usually have to cut costs and increase productivity so they can remain competitive. Furthermore, that means that with the higher price, the number of U.S. goods being exported will likely drop. This eventually leads to a reduction in gross domestic product (GDP), which is definitely not a benefit. That translates to a benefit of lower prices, leading to lower overall inflation. The bond market also signaled that it does not expect the Fed to start tightening any time soon as there was a clear discrepancy between the hawkish Fed and the movement in the 10Y Treasury yields. You see, usually when an Interest Rate hike takes place or when Interest Rate expectations shift towards an increase in the Federal Funds rate, that is considered as bullish for bond yields. The reason for that as we pointed out earlier is associated with the fact that a rising interest rate environment and a potential for higher inflation makes bonds less attractive at the current extremely low yields. Bond yields then go up in order to bring back investors to the Bond market. Well, that has not happened this time around as even though we had a surprisingly hawkish Fed in mid-June, the 10Y Treasury yield has continued to fall. It seems that the 40-year long bull market for bonds has further to go. The Bond market always gives indications as to what is actually happening in the economy but very few people know how to read the correlations and information properly. The most recent price action in the 10Y Treasury yield shows that the real probability of the Fed tightening sooner than expected is much lower than what the equity markets and all other market participants are currently pricing in. Bond investors tend to have more macro-oriented view, which allows them to see the big picture better. So what does that mean? Well, with the US Dollar threatening to reverse its 1-2 year downtrend and break above the critical resistance sitting at 92-93 and Bond yields falling, the economy and inflation growth will be tamed organically by the higher dollar. We believe that this would lead to the Federal Reserve also pushing back its tightening program, which in turn will reignite risk-appetite in the market. Thus, we expect to see Growth outperforming Value in the coming months.
TVC:DXYLong
by DowExperts
EURUSD drops back below 200-day EMA to keep sellers hopeful Sluggish markets and wobbling Treasury yields keep EURUSD below the key EMA amid a quiet session on early Thursday. However, the scheduled release of the US Durable Goods Orders for May probes the pair sellers as Fed policymakers and chatters over President Biden’s stimulus have already poked safe-haven demands of the US dollar. Technically, the currency pair battles the 200-day EMA level of 1.1940 as RSI recovers from the oversold area, flashing brighter odds for the upside move towards the 1.2000 threshold. Though, the quote’s further advances will be capped by lows marked during late January and early June around 1.2050. On the contrary, the current bearish impulse aims for an ascending support line from March-end, near 1.1855. Following that, a bit broader rising trend line, near 1.1760, will be crucial to watch as it holds the key to further south-run to yearly low and November 2020 bottom, respectively near 1.1710 and 1.1600. It’s worth noting that EURUSD is in a consolidation mode and hence downside becomes more acceptable than the otherwise case.
Short
by MTradingGlobal
The Credit Cycle - Free Wealth is Over?Idea for Macro: - Financial sector selling off heavily. - While it's early to call a bear market, the exhaustion gap at an all time high is a reasonable signal for market reversal. - XLF, XLE and FAAMG have been holding up the broader markets at this high... Cracks appearing? Underlying conditions: - Institutions will invest based on 18 months into the future (Druckenmiller). - There are 3 relevant possibilities for the banks: (1) Inflation is sticky, interest rates will be raised in the future, within 18 months. This actually increases the banking sector's profitability, but the price is declining because they have been speculated above valuations. (2) Inflation is transitory, interest rates will not be raised, and we will have negative real rates. This will hurt the banks' profit margins. This is a possibility due to the 40 year demand-push deflation the US has been in (see Oil/CPI). (3) More importantly, the economy will decelerate (deflationary). Liquidity components of the Fed B/S have been decelerating and global credit impulse (lending) has gone negative. No more easy lending, less loans, meaning less earnings for the banks. Investors know this and are exiting the overheated trade. Either way for inflation, global liquidity and global credit impulse are turning down, so the Long Volatility trade seems to be ideal. Why did global risk assets rise to such insane levels? Credit impulse - easy lending. Now that supply of sugar is gone. Only one thing left that can happen. GLHF - DPT
AMEX:XLFShort
by UnknownUnicorn1043646
Look at all these sector rotations! Welcome to the new regimeRecently we've seen a significant "rotation" in markets toward large cap tech and defensives, and away from small caps, financials, and transportation. In this post, I will describe the rotation through a series of charts, and I will also suggest some explanations for what's going on. The long and short of it is that I think we've just witnessed a regime change, and markets are going to look very different for the rest of the year. What's up: ecommerce, software, automation After a long period of underperformance early this year, the software sector made a bullish trendline break vs. the S&P 500 at the end of May, and has been outperforming ever since: Likewise the Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF: And the Amplify Online Retail ETF: Note that the online retail ETF is outperforming despite recent weak retail sales numbers. What's down: airlines, retail, materials While tech names have been breaking out upwards, we've seen downward breakouts in several other sectors that outperformed early this year. This includes most of the winners of the "reopening" trade, including airlines: The "consumer discretionary" or retail sector has also rolled over, obviously with the exception of ecommerce: As retail rolls over, we're also seeing some very bearish action in the materials sector. In addition to a sharp selloff in lumber, we also saw iron ore and gold take big dumps in the last few days. The materials sector has broken its uptrend relative to the S&P: What's going on: weak demand and the Delta variant Partly tech may be outperforming because of falling bond yields. Tech has been inversely correlated with interest rates since early this year. But I think a couple other factors are also in play. The economic data lately have been very disappointing, with weak retail sales, weak durable goods orders, and weak housing starts. A lot of consumers now say they are hesitant to buy a house, and initial unemployment claims ticked up significantly this week. The ECRI leading weekly index has been in a downward slide since mid-March. All of this points to weakening consumer demand, which I think is why you see the retail and materials sectors falling so hard. The drop-off in demand is partly due to inflated prices, and partly due to the elimination of expanded unemployment benefits. Having already spent their stimulus checks, consumers now simply have less money to spend. There's another factor, too, which is Covid-19 variants. The variant known as "Delta" has been ravaging India and spreading fast in the rest of the world. This variant is highly contagious and has been described as "Covid-19 on steroids." Meanwhile, the vaccine-resistant variants known as "Alpha" and "Beta" have been spreading in Europe and the United States. Alpha is now the predominant strain in the US, having increased from 12% of cases to 37% of cases in the last 4 weeks. With variants a growing threat, it's possible that some traders are hedging against a "reclosing" economy, or at least the possibility that consumers might travel less. Another noteworthy shift: bonds over financials Also note that financials have broken their relative uptrend, with a big drop today: The selloff in financials was a reaction to the upward breakout in bonds: It appears that we're headed into a new cycle of monetary stimulus and low interest rates, which means lower yields for banks. Oddly, the US dollar also broke out upward today. I'm unsure what that's about, or how it fits in with the price action in bonds. Normally higher bonds and higher inflation would be bearish for the dollar. What's threatened: aerospace, energy, and transportation The aerospace, energy, and transportation sectors are so far still in an uptrend, although all three exhibited some weakness today. You'd think that aerospace would fall along with airlines, but remember that the aerospace sector also includes defense, and we are increasingly under threat from China. The transportation sector includes passenger travel like airlines, but it also includes shipping companies like UPS and FedEx. So ecommerce strength may offer some support, but this could still fall out of its uptrend soon. The energy sector trades somewhat in sympathy with transportation, so transportation weakness could bode ill for energy. Energy is also inversely correlated with the US dollar, so today's upward dollar breakout could cause pain for energy. However, this sector is currently being supported by oil shortages and hype around the possibility that oil will reach $100/barrel. Keep an eye on defensives, real estate, and biotech Investors seem to be getting more and more defensive. That includes taking refuge in large, high-quality names. Large caps underperformed early this year, but that has changed in June, with the cap-weighted S&P 500 having broken its downtrend relative to the equal-weighted index: It also looks like several defensive sectors are basing relative to the index. The relatively undervalued communications sector may benefit from the bipartisan infrastructure bill that's now near to passing in the Senate: We're also seeing consumer staples, utilities, and healthcare find some support, though no big upward breakouts yet: Surprisingly, real estate and biotech are also both seeing bullish movement relative to the S&P 500, so these are sectors to watch. Both are relatively undervalued due to having underperformed for a long time:
AMEX:JETSShort
by ChristopherCarrollSmith
8
Macro - Risk is Very HighIdea for Macro: - Credit Cycle turned down from top of Risk Range. - Global Credit Impulse negative, US Systemic Liquidity Flows turning down, Fed Balance Sheet 5yr avg. at top of risk range. - Demand-push Inflation at top of risk range, in 40 year downtrend. - Implied Volatility vs. Realized Volatility reaching a critical level. - PC ratio reaching low levels (signals investor complacency). - SKEW at an ATH. Perceived Tail Risk is at an ATH. Speculate a correction in equities this Summer, then a large correction EOY-Q1 2022. GLHF - DPT
TVC:US30YShort
by UnknownUnicorn1043646
5
BTC - 61.8% structure now in actionHello Traders and Analysts, A Note before reading - this is a forecast quick analysis - based upon our trading strategy. This is tagged long, due to purchasing further increments upon imbalances. Please do not take this as face value and conduct the relevant investment strategy to successfully trade the probabilities. Master Key for zones Blue = Monthly Purple = weekly Red = 4 Days Yellow = 16 Hours Orange = Daily Dark Green = 8 Hour Grey = 4hour Pink = 1 hour Chart pattern to watch for: - short term Below is the possibility of a Bearish pennant. Bullish Pattern to spot: Below is an explanation of the imbalance/inefficiency zones based upon the original analysis view. 1. Zone 1: The daily zone is where price will be looking at a test of the order block based on how the mark flows between imbalances to create the range. The current week has seen a sharp outflow of movement away to keep shorts flowing to keep the imbalance moving towards the zone of $42,000. This redistribution of wealth is the transfer from impatient to patient buyers, liquidity to show bears opportunities to 'shake' Bitcoin wallets out to create a new engineered low. 2. Exactly the same development but making further lows to around $37,000 - $39,000. This zone will be a 'full retrace' upon a daily Fibonacci standpoint, however this is where the imbalance lies. 3. The true imbalance remains at $28,000 . - see BTC VS yields for this information. Monthly Imbalances Below are the monthly imbalances, where price has now created a monthly imbalance using the close of the high. Price has created a nice area which has broken down to the weekly imbalance zone . The main structure here is dependant of the pivot points upon the price closing in the zone where BTC can retest the monthly highs, creating a lower high. The probability of these occur where price breaks using the Fibonacci rules as a second strategy. Here is the probable paths where price can show Fibonacci rules are still in formation on the weekly chart: The structure is in a corrective phase here where the imbalance created will now offer an opportunity for buyers to look at the fractal zones where imbalance wicks align nicely at 61.8%. If looking to buy, confirm the buy is active with confirmation. Or simply wait the next liquidity spike to the next imbalance. align the timeframes together and the imbalances will become clearer. Daily chart Here is the current price chart for the daily price chart with the Fibonacci applied. The current price is testing the 61.8% retracement, the price also seems to find it's reversion (pivot point) at the 70.5% retracement* Caveat: The price will not always use this is a reversion point, price will use probability before falling to the monthly imbalance. 16 hour chart Here is the 16hour imbalances which breakdown the imbalances to show in a smaller trading session - this timeframe removes further noise and solidifies the inefficient imbalance of the supply and demand strategy. The eight hour Fibonacci is complete Now what is happening? This aligns with the bigger picture using the weekly and monthly. BTC VS VIX The Volatility index is always an interesting measure, where the Vix Screenshot below to show the monthly relationship of the price closing. The volume profile added to the Vix shows here where; orange = value area up Blue = value area down *showing the buyers, sellers upon the imbalance of the newly all time high. As described on the chart - the key zone here is the correction which aligns on the 2 week imbalance rectangle where price can revert to to provide a key positional move upwards to continue the buyers imbalance. US Treasury volatility - not to be ignored by Crypto: Using Yields and the Volatility index to provide further evidence. Be aware of the Yields of the US05 - US20 Year, this can impact the indexes also which will impact the imbalances of Crypto currencies. BTC vs ETH: Notice the imbalance pattern? Do you enjoy the setups? Professional analyst with 5+ years experience Focus on technical output not fundamentals Position and swing trades Provide updates where necessary - with new updated ideas tracking the progress. If you like the idea, please leave a like or comment. To all the followers, thank you for your continued support. Thanks, LVPA MMXXI
COINBASE:BTCUSDLong
by LupaCapital
2
China Credit Cycle & US MarketsIdea on Macro: - China's Credit Impulse has turned negative. - Credit impulse is the change in new credit issued as a % of GDP. - China's Government Bonds 10 YR Yield are correlated with China's Credit Cycle. - The Credit Cycle taking a downturn signals deflation. Bond prices will rise as borrowers (issuers) will expect to pay back the principal at a loss, and interest rates will fall to incentivize borrowing. During deflation, default risk increases. - There is news of China "cracking down" on the market... Warning signs: www.bloomberg.com Commodities: www.reuters.com Cryptocurrencies: www.reuters.com - However, these are simply headlines. What is occurring is a downturn in the China Credit Cycle, and deflation in their economy. - The US markets too follow the China Credit Cycle. After the 2008 bailouts, the US markets followed the credit impulse back to recovery. - Now China's Credit Cycle has begun a downturn. US markets have deviated so far from this traditional relationship - creating a global asset inflationary bubble, that there is only one thing left it can do, according to reflexivity... return to the mean. - Once the deflationary shock takes place, there are several ways out. WWII followed the Great Depression, with defense spending and inflation. - A wild thought, but perhaps with the UAP disclosures, the US is toying with an idea for future defense spending... www.cnn.com GLHF - DPT
TVC:CN10YShort
by UnknownUnicorn1043646