Uranium prospect UR-Energy is up 17+% today. I had noted that the position was increased on a down day recently. I am using today’s pop to take a partial profit of about 18% in the form of those extra shares as URG bounces to short term resistance. I may also take the remainder of the profit before day’s end or tomorrow. I have not decided on that yet.
Since Broadcom was first presented in an interim update and I am still holding it, I wanted to update its status for anyone interested. The target is at or just above 30, but I am going to take my humble 4.4% on it and move on.
The following is an excerpt from NFTRH 270, dated 12.22.13:
Now What? This is What
From NFTRH 269’s opening segment ‘Market Correction on Cue, Now What?’:
“The question now is whether or not this is the start of a larger topping scenario and the answer to that question is for now at least, no, not by evidence showing up in our indicators like junk bond (risk on) speculation and sentiment, which was dialed back from heartily over bullish to neutral by the correction of the last couple of weeks.”
With things in the media like a market strategist declaring he wouldn’t buy gold with his worst enemy’s money (CNBC) and SoGen declaring gold is finished as a safe haven investment (MarketWatch) I am given doubt about our nice neat downside technical targets. The targets are there mind you, but technical analysis can go right out the window with one shift in the markets as we all know.
Party goers are gathered around the punch bowl as expected after the FOMC’s token move on QE. Jeff Lacker is jawboning additional tapers in $10b chunks and all seems right, except… the ‘continuum’ (AKA the 100 month EMA on the 30 year bond yield chart).
Let me ask you Beuller, what happened at the red arrow in 2000? What happened after the red arrow in 2007? What happened after the plunge in 2008? What happened after the red arrow in 2011? What happened after the most recent bottom in 2012? The answers are 1) the end of a secular bull market in stocks, 2) the end of the last cyclical bull market in stocks, 3) the birth of the current cyclical bull market in stocks, 4) the end of the big cyclical commodities rally and 5) the launch of this most powerful leg of the cyclical stock bull market.
Folks, gold is bouncing today and yet the chart below is a bearish divergence, as the 30-5 yield ratio (top panel) continued to drop like a stone. For effect, the nominal 30 and 5 are shown in the lower panels.
What to watch for with respect to a precious metals drop that could be the beginning of a climactic decline:
This is perfect... Gold falls to June lows as Fed plan to taper sinks in and I thought I'd put up my own sensational headline since the MW headline is…
Well hallelujah! Finally, we have a move in the right direction by our friends at the Fed. Token though it may be. We needed a signal toward change and we got it.
A self-explanatory chart of two of the old tech guard. I would like to buy both of these back for a potentially quick trade at the shaded support zones. AAPL is clear. MSFT has a gap at a lower support zone. That looks like a tough fill, but I have seen stranger things happen. I may hold out for that lower level.
Recently two things were mentioned in NFTRH.
It’s ‘taper’ talk time again and here is a post that is only too happy to join the cacophony…
Dear Federal Reserve, please signal what would be at least a symbolic gesture to the market and pretend to tighten policy by beginning a tapering of long-term bond buying. We know inflation is being promoted via ZIRP at the discount window and via money printing used for T bond and MBS asset purchases.
Now it is time to ‘taper’ and let long-term yields rise if that is what the free market wants them to do. Given the decades-long limit at the 100 month EMA (AKA the deflationary backbone) potentially imposed by this chart, a further rise in yields is debatable anyway if all you plan to do is taper a bit. The ‘Continuum’ in the Long Bond’s yield is at this would-be limit point after all.
GLD is bouncing, reclaiming the ‘neckline’ to the bearish pattern (as noted, gold itself already did this). Within the pattern a Triangle is drawn. Big resistance is the 50 MA’s and the nose of this Triangle. Success there makes it neutral. Ultimately, GLD needs to make a higher high (above 130) from the October high and get MACD green to be a bull.
The Small Caps (Russell 2000), which have been market leaders, have led this mini correction. RUT is now nearing a point – by the 50 day moving averages and by RSI – that has limited all previous pullbacks. Watch RUT as a signal to a traditional bullish late December into January or the opposite, a more severe correction. A breakdown from the MA 50’s would break the mechanical trend of the bull of the last year.