NFTRH 357 Out Now

#357 is about road maps for the US stock market.  There is one road map for the immediate-term, one for the next 1-2 months and then another, which will be…

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US Market: Friendly Reminder

A friendly reminder to the bears.  Though what is going on in the markets seems awful and indeed could be signaling macro changes to come, the US stock market is…

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Priority Update, Important Semi Data & Market Notes

[edit] I neglected to include the link and this quote... "Year-to-date, the bookings and billings reported in the SEMI North American equipment book-to-bill report indicate a solid year for the industry,"…

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Updating Uncle Buck

With so many former hyper inflationists now schooling us about deflation, it is only fitting that Uncle Buck continue to turn his suspect status toward bearish status.  It is in…

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Precious Metals ‘Bounce’ Targets

This post is not a call to action because all of our orientations are different.  For example, a trader would have played the bounce.  An investor - especially in light…

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Microcosm Expanding

NFTRH 353 introduced the idea of a Macrocosm, a planetary representation of elements that need to come into place for a real investment stance on the gold stock sector (as…

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Oil Megaphone

The Megaphone or Reverse Symmetrical Triangle in crude oil fund USO looks interesting.  These are usually thought to be reversal patterns.  If that is what this is, it will end…

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Gold Sector Fundamentals Update

We have noted that gold vs. oil and gold vs. commodities have been improving, along with other items that are potentially positively impacting gold mining operations, slowly but surely even as the hype about the extinction of the sector became very loud.

Gold-Oil (GLD-USO)…

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NFTRH+; Long-term Yields & Associated Trades

As CPI will attest, consumer prices are certainly not suffering at the hands of the pervasive global deflationary environment.  Housing, Healthcare and other services are not easily going to give back embedded price gains.  In NFTRH 356 I tried to express this in an admittedly muddled Indicators segment.

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Silver Did Its Job(s)

As subscribers know, I had a short position against 3x Long Silver fund USLV, initiated when silver hit our bounce target of 15.50.  It was there for hedging purposes and…

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Charting Global Bears & Short Setups

Below are some pictures of developing bear markets using weekly charts of iShares ETF’s.  Some items are getting hit with the China stick, others with the Commodities stick and others with both. Regardless, they are getting hit with an ugly stick.

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Empire Manufacturing Drops

From the NY Fed... Empire State Manufacturing Survey Full PDF report here. New Orders is a key component, obviously, as that is where future business comes from. The stock market…

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NFTRH 356 Out Now

25 pages, on point and ready for either a continuation or reversal of larger trends as tops spin all over the macro table.  An interesting market in which certain scenarios…

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US Stock Market Mini Update

Reviewing the US stock market picture from a few different angles... NFTRH been using the Equity Put/Call ratio to gauge pressure on the US stock market for all of 2015. …

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