If Silver Was a Bubble and 2011 Marked the Top, This is Where the Second Wave of Selling Likely Begins

If Silver Was a Bubble and 2011 Marked the Top, This is Where the Second Wave of Selling Likely Begins

It’s been a long time since we’ve done any work on silver or precious metals for that matter. There just haven’t been many interesting technical set-ups to speak of one way or the other. However, that seems to have changed…...

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Bottoming Process of USD over Past Two Years Remains Compellingly Analogous to Similar Process in 1995/1996; Major Rally about to Begin?

We’ve posted on these similarities over and over on the site, as recently as right here a few weeks ago (feel free to search the site for ‘USD’ or click on it from the category drop-down box for past posts…...

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Post Bubble Analog Suggests Housing Stocks Closer to Full Valuation than Nat Gas

In this post we highlight our post bubble analogs to see how close housing-related stocks and Nat Gas have come to lessening the valuation gap they’ve recently exhibited vs. where other bubbles have tended to trade some ~375-400 weeks after…...

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Miners Appear Poised for Further Out-Performance vs. Gold

The chart below plots the ratio of the Arca Gold Miners Index vs. Gold. As you can see, early in 2012 the ratio hit extremely over-sold territory which has typically led to strong bounces whereby miners out-perform the metal itself…....

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Crude May Continue to Under-Perform Other Risk Assets Such as Equities

Crude May Continue to Under-Perform Other Risk Assets Such as Equities

The chart below plots the ratio of crude oil vs. the SPX. Earlier this year the ratio broke support line (1) which dated all the way back to 1998 – in effect, crude’s nearly 15 year trend of out-performance vs….

Although it Sits on 10-Year Support, Coffee Could Continue to Disappoint over the Intermediate-Term

The chart below reflects the fact that coffee futures sit on 10-year support line (1) dating back to 2002. It also highlights the fact that commercial hedgers, who more often than not tend to get inflection points correct in the…...

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Are Prices Really the Only Thing That Matter?

Are Prices Really the Only Thing That Matter?

If so, what are the prices of the two asset classes below suggesting about the likely winner of the upcoming U.S. presidential election? Or, am I reading too much into the tea leaves here?

Set-Up in CAD$ Appears Unfavorable; Could Lead to Continued Softness in Crude, Out-Performance in Airlines

We find the set-up in the CAD$ unfavorable, both technically and from a sentiment standpoint. Technically, the FX finds itself facing very stiff resistance region (A) which marks highs dating back to 1972 as well as 2008/2011. At the same…...

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If U.S. Bonds are the “Big Short” of the Next Decade, it Likely Means Japanese Equities are the “Big Long”

We got to thinking yesterday and came up with the chart below… It plots the ratio of the SPX vs. Nikkei against the 10 Yr UST price since 1998, when things really started going “global” with LTCM, the Russian FX…...

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As a Group, Coal Appears to be Breaking Out & Could Continue to Out-Perform

As a Group, Coal Appears to be Breaking Out & Could Continue to Out-Perform

For some background on our thoughts on coal, please see these previous posts here and here. Since our original post on the group all the way back on August 9th, the DJ Coal Index has risen 22% vs. only a…