Nikkei Working on a Break-Out; Next Up 14K by the End of 2013?
In the chart below the Nikkei is attempting to break-out from a consolidation flag pattern formed by lines (1) and (2), which has been in development since 2008. If a break-out occurs, it could result in materially more upside in…
Where Next For Interest Rates?
First off, we plot the 10 year interest rate below. Very nice and tight consolidation pattern that’s taken place along lines (1)-(3) that looks very close to ending. A break above line (1) and rates could shoot aggressively higher over…...
Euro Financials Have Beat the SPX by 30% Since Summer, Now What?
The chart below plots the ratio of the DJ Euro Financials Index vs. SPX This ratio has risen by ~30% since this summer after bottoming along line (3). For some background on why Euro-centric has out-performed U.S.-centric in recent months,…...
Getting Granular: Equities Cheap vs. Credit?
We plot the path HYG & JNK have traveled against SPY over the past year in the chart below. They have all tended to track together over the past year. Just as equities appeared expensive vs. credit in 2Q12 in front of…
Analog Update
Per my email this morning about only giving this market a day or two worth of leash before giving up and turning structurally bearish, the analogs call for an insane launch higher, basically begining in and around this week. As…...
The SSEC Likely Continues Lower Though Its Irrelevancy Continues to Grow
We’ve been of the opinion that if the SSEC were to continue lower, it would not necessarily be indicative of an imminent global slow-down/recession/equity collapse. That thesis is largely derived from the chart below, which plots the path the SSEC…
CFNAI Suggests the Fed Has Destroyed the Market’s Discounting Mechanism Over Past Decade with Pay-Back Being Increased Volatility
Stepping away from the “only prices matter” meme for a second to highlight some more work on the Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI). Historically, when the rolling 3 month average of this index hits and/or dips below a reading…...
SSEC Finds itself at Another Important Support Zone as FXI Faces Resistance
All the way back on August 27th we noted the SSEC was in the process of breaking below long-term support dating back to 1994. At the time, we noted that while such a break was unlikely to be an incremental…
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…...
Analog & Systematic Model Updates
The chart below shows our 4th/5th consecutive annual gain analog updated for Friday’s closing value on the Dow. At its intra-day low on Friday the Dow had corrected ~830 bps off its mid-September high of 13,600 and at its closing…...