SPX Upside to Resume with USD Break-Down

We first broke this chart out a few weeks ago in this post and have updated it below. Without reinventing the wheel, here’s what we said about the chart in that original post: “Per the plots below, note that the SPX’s…...

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Encino Man

Here’s a blast from the past for you. On 1/15/14, or over two years ago, we had this highly compelling and very prescient post that emphatically stated in its title: “GREATER THAN 90% PROBABILITY SPX HIGHER IN 2014 WITH A…...

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Looking for the Next Break in the Ongoing Chinese Depression

In late December we noted via this post that the SSEC’s crash off its mid-15 highs to-date was very similar-looking to the path the DJI took of its 1929 high to begin the Great Depression. Here’s an updated version of the analog comparing…...

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U.S. Long Bond Yields Threatening Imminent Break of 8-Yr Support, GFC Lows

In the chart below I plot 30-yr U.S. long bond yields over time. A couple things: Yields have traded in a well-defined downward-sloping channel over time Major geo-political/monetary events have occurred when (or as) yields have broken below the green,…...

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DAX is Unequivocally in a Major Bear Market

The chart below plots the DAX against off its Apr-15 high vs. the paths it took off its two other most recent and major structural highs, those being the Mar-00 and Oct-07 peaks that led to 65% and 55% bear…

Nigh is the Day of GREXIT?

Much has recently been made about this past weekend’s leak regarding a recent discussion two senior IMF officials had over triggering an “event” that would force Greek to comply with the EU/IMF demands heading into negotiations re: upcoming debt maturities. The timing…...

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With White House Geopolitics Out of the Way the Fed Can Now Resume Blowing Asset Bubbles

In early March I discussed the heightened prospects of the past year’s worth of VOL simply being a mid or late cycle pause into what would turn out to be a blow-off, bubble inducing rally over some period of ensuing years…....

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Chart Dump

I spent all weekend looking for attractive looking charts across all SPX industries.  Below is a dump of the most compelling ones....

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Time to Revisit the Airline Out-Performance Idea

One of the calls from this site that I’m most proud of is the long airline thematic I began laying out in spring-12 well before the group took off and well before it was fashionable to own it. Revisit these…...

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Protectionism as an Emerging Macro Thematic

Deep and wide is the chasm in philosophical world views that stands between the remaining three candidates – Trump, Clinton or Sanders – for the US presidency. However, that great divide vanishes when it comes to the topic of globalization and…...

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