Repeating Pattern in Long Bond Price Suggests its Decline (Yield Rise) to Accelerate

Following up on what we envisioned as its peak (and rates’ trough) from our Feb-2015 post on the subject, at the present time the price of the 30 yr UST is replicating a pattern that has historically signaled the onset…...

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Could Palladium Weakness Spell Similar Trouble for Equities?

In an earlier post this week we displayed palladium’s ostensible break below multi-year, long-term trend-line support and suggested that break-down would be apt to precipitate accelerated downside in the commodity, as similar break-downs had in the past.  Today we present…...

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Palladium Beginning a Very Large Decline

In the chart below each of (A)-(D) have seen palladium break through muli-year trend-line support, thus ushering in quick, precipitous declines in the commodity when they’ve occurred. I believe a similar such break-down is occurring this week atop line (E)…...

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Market Internals Don't Appear to Portend Material Price Deterioration

Below you’ll find a chart of the NYSE adv/dec ratio on a 10 day MA basis with the SPX below it. Since the mid 2000s note that larger corrections (i.e., >8%) have been almost universally preceded by deteriorating, downward-sloping trend…...

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More Nikkei Short-Termism & Analog Update

After correcting ~250 bps into Wednesday 6/10 of this week, the Nikkei rebounded sharply last night. This transition to strength from weakness over the past day resulted in a ~350 bps swing in the U.S. futures contract’s 10 hour RoC…...

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Silver Malaise Nearly Unprecedented

What we’re about to do in this post with silver is highly similar to the analysis we presented on China in early Jul-12 in this post where we suggested the region’s equities, despite Barron’s call for a credit crisis to…...

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Where Did All the Equity VOL Go?

Much has been made of late about the absence of domestic equity market VOL; seemingly, much of that VOL, or at least the pretense of it in the financial press, appears to be focused on global sovereign debt instead. I decided…...

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Yen Has Reached Multi-Decade Support

In the monthly chart below the Japanese Yen has reached multi-decade support lines (1) and (2) after breaking down in the past two weeks from the bearish-looking flag/consolidation pattern we had recently highlighted in this post.  Line (2) dates to…...

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Clubber Lang May Finally Be Ready to Fight

On 7/29/14 we highlighted Mr. T as an increasingly attractive long.  At the time we didn’t openly advocate an immediate position in the name, but said the following: “Would look to purchase T on a break-out this week assuming it…...

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Continue to Favor Telco Equipment & With It a New Long Idea in the Industry

Late last year on 12/23 we had a post that suggested the DJ Telco Equipment Index would be a source of relative out-performance vs. the SPX in 2015.  Our proxy for that call, the IGN ETF, has delivered +725 bps…...

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