Monthly Archives: April 2020
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30Apr3:37 pmEST
Gold and the Miners: Let 'em Rest Now
I am not sure how many financial news outlets or pundits on social media were blaring headlines about gold miners printing seven-year highs last week, but I doubt very many did. But that is correct--The GDX ETF hit its highest level ($34.74) last week since April 2013, as seen on the GDX weekly chart, below. After a steep multi-week uptrend off...
30Apr11:20 amEST
The Main Thing You Cannot Control is Time
At this point into the lockdown/quarantine in most parts of the country it may feel like we are constantly being teased into thinking we will re-open the economy any day now. Indeed, the market seems to think so, with stocks furiously squeezing over the last five weeks in order to try to price in such a scenario. Seeing as history does not...
29Apr11:44 amEST
Baking a Heckuva Cake
The phrase, "baked in the cake," refers to the concept of markets being able to discount a future scenario which may not yet seem apparent. When said scenario materializes it may come as a surprise to a fair amount of people but not so much to markets which have already accounted for the development. Applied to the current landscape, markets...
28Apr3:00 pmEST
You Can Almost Hear Lou Brown...
"Come on bears, get in front of the damn small caps! Don't give me this "ole" bulls***!" With tech dipping into major earnings and the FOMC, the weekly chart for IWM, below, shows us where the real battle may be. Small caps are up against their late-2018 correction lows. Turning prior support into newfound resistance would be rather...
28Apr10:58 amEST
Lining Up the Next Shot
Some near-term buyer exhaustion in many Nasdaq names this morning appears to be setting in, which cannot be too shocking given the furious push higher we have seen (especially in the futures market) over the last month. Prominent winners from this cycle, like TDOC ZM, are down sharply as I write this as we head into the true belly of the beast...
27Apr3:37 pmEST
Crude Headlines; Natty Baselines
Amid more shock-and-awe in the energy sector, be with crude oil getting throttled again with some bankruptcies from debt-ridden players in the space still very much a distinct threat, we do have an impressive red-to-green move in natural gas today. With summer air conditioning season coming up, the UNG ETF daily chart, below, at least offers a...
27Apr11:43 amEST
New World Beneficiaries
Even as various states across the country lay out plans for a gradual reopening of businesses and way of life there can be little doubt at this point that it will still take a fair amount of time for us to get anywhere close to life as we knew it back in the good ole days of February. The same can be said even more for businesses, as I suspect...
26Apr4:06 pmEST
Weekend Overview and Analysis 04/26/20 {Video}
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25Apr9:05 pmEST
Saturday Night Chart for Thought
The zoomed-out chart of the U.S. Dollar versus Japanese Yen currency cross, below, may very well have significant implications as far as what Central Banks around the world truly want to happen going forward. As you can see, those times when the cross has weakened, with the Dollar (the numerator) softening against a strengthening Yen...
24Apr12:08 pmEST
Various Toppings in Dispute
To be sure, given the lack of immediate downside follow-through by bears for any bout of weakness of late, it remains to be seen if the major averages buckle sufficiently to even tempt a retest of the March lows, be it the Dow, S&P, Nasdaq, or Russell. However, various individual names continue to operate poorly, some of them rather prominent...
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