Euro Approaching L-T Support, Reaction Will Have Material Implications for Future Trajectory of Inflation/Deflation Thematic
As I look back on the site in recent weeks/months it seems clear that the work has begun to shift toward the thematic of a deflation/inflation debate. Or, more specifically, the site’s thematic increasingly seems to reveal a world lurching, at accelerating…...
What are the Implications of the SPX Finally Correcting >10% in August After Nearly Three Years of Uninterrupted Upside?
In May-14 I discussed here that the magnitude and duration of the SPX rally off its 10/3/11 low w/o a 10% correction was turning into one of history’s biggest such moves. In a follow-up post on the same topic in Oct-15 after it had…...
Nikkei Still On Track Despite Summer Mishap?
I’ve not updated any of our Nikkei framework since 8/10 in this post. It was in that post where we provided an analog update comparing the Nikkei off its swing high in May-13 onward vs. the DJI off its own…...
1998 Redux for Crude?
In these two posts here and here we discussed 1998 as a potential outcome to Aug/Sep’s global VOL in equities whereby strong pivots higher could result in additional, sustained upside to the long-term bull cycle that’s been intact since 2009 (or…...
Duration & Size Matter: Part 2 (And Why the Revenant May Truly be Dead)
Nearly 18 months ago, on 5/9/14, we noted the SPX had gone 652 days and had rallied 72% without at least a 10% correction, with that stretch dating back to the summer/fall 2011 mini-crash lows. We went on to note…...
Gold, Rarely a Rush: Part 2
For more than a year now we’ve made a concerted effort to continuously revisit the ideas that PMs, especially gold, had more ultimate upside left in a major structural bull cycle despite the fact that cyclically speaking, they had been in…...
Silver Potentially on the Cusp of an Explosive Move Higher
In the chart below I show bullish descending wedge patterns in silver across history at (A) and (B). Pattern (A) begins at a major structural peak in 1982 and lasts ~four years, completing itself with a bullish break-out in late…...
How’s It Going Down?
As I ponder where the world stands from a macro/market cycle standpoint I’m reminded of one of my favorite rappers in the halcyon years of being a teenager in rural Corry, PA, DMX, and the best track that came off his debut album, It’s…...
Fake Bear Market?
Yesterday we highlighted some NYSE 52 week data that suggested the possibility that U.S. equities were deeply oversold and that the August “shock” was so abrupt and severe that those characteristics made it more emblematic of a “fake” bear market than…...
Crash Sequence?
Our case(s) for global equity weakness have been laid out in depth dating back to the third week of July beginning with EMs and then moving on to domestic/US. The following posts highlighted our attempt to build a foundation of work for that…...