Excerpted from an extensive multi-market NFTRH update (including global stocks, commodities and precious metals) yesterday morning: Volatility. It is what we expected and it is what we have with Tuesday’s…
Volatility. It is what we expected and it is what we have with Tuesday’s big down and upward reversal, down hard again yesterday and today very green in pre-market. This volatility applies to most assets markets including the precious metals. It is the nature of the beast during a news-rich summer, with many operators on vacation or semi-vacation (with some players not able to resist peeking?).
Note to 3rd party content grabbers... this is not a post you'll want to spend any time reviewing as it is filled with opinionated negativity. :-( Well, he got the…
I just discovered that one of my favorite data dumps, the St. Louis Fed, has a blog. It is now linked to the left as 'FRED Blog'. From FRED: FRED…
"Turnaround Tuesday"... isn't that what they call it? Well, it turned around for several things not called precious metals or China. I did a little buying today of strategic semiconductor…
We have long discussed waiting waiting and waiting some more… for an opportunity to buy this sector on price destruction while at the same time its fundamentals are improving. I want to pop up a few charts showing the sector and macro fundamentals.
Let’s preface by noting that like Europe, a trade or investment in China should be backed by one’s own research and opinion as NFTRH+ updates do not tend to include my opinions about the stock or asset class in question. They are simply technical setups on areas that appear to be of interest at a given time.
Could this be the end of the consolidation phase? If so, things are changing on the macro, right here in the dead of summer. The thing bounced back in March…
NFTRH+ posts are not calls to action; they are ideas for careful consideration to go along with your own research and views. In this case that goes double, as the Greece/Euro drama plays out well for our projected trade in HEDJ. But there is no need to jump on it right away; not with herds falling all over themselves to get back out after taking the bullish promotions in the spring.
Uncle Buck is doing his best to not only keep the intermediate correction scenario in question, but also break its parameters. So far Unc has gotten above the MA 50…
Using some ETF's we note that the headline indexes are not looking good in the US. DIA looks like its bounce could be a bear flag on declining volume. Key…
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With USD at the 50 day averages at yesterday’s close…
and the UUP ETF breaking through it today…
Beginning with our oft-watched Machine Tools sales graph, we find that May did not include any sort of post-harsh winter bounce in sales. Nor did the multi-industry reading do well. …