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Intraday Market Thought: Indices Heat up, USD Cools on Relations Thaw
by Adam Button | May 22, 2018 11:57
Monday's equity rally was another confirmation that the year's....Improved relations and detente over the past 2 days have led to a rally in risk....Earlier today, BoE's Carney reiterated that interest rates will rise....Silver and the ppund are the highest gainers since Tuesday's Asia open...The DOW30 Premium was stopped out at 25050 (High was 25085)....Yesterday's trade is +70 pips in the green...مطاردة القيعان (فيديو المشتركين)....The US-China trade war going 'on hold' was cheered by markets as the....China has offered to import more US energy and commodities in something we....But if it's good enough for Trump and Mnuchin, then it's good enough....It was instructive that the Australian dollar was the top beneficiary in FX...AUD/USD jumped to the highest since late April...Even cable showed some signs of life...After hitting a fresh 2018 low of 1...3391 it bounced back to 1...3433 to finish only narrowly lower...The risk to the improved tone in markets is bonds...Treasury yields inched higher Monday but are now back within striking distance....Keep a close eye on that market Tuesday.
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Intraday Market Thought: USD Shrugs Services ISM
by Adam Button | Feb 5, 2019 15:19
Risk assets remain continue to push higher as China remains on vacation....The January services ISM fell to 56...7 from 58...0, posting its 2nd consecutive monthly decline (more below)....USD prevails holds on to strength after last night's remarks from hawkish....The Aussie is the day's highest performing currency of the day thanks to....A new commodities trade for Premium susbcribers is to be posted later this....The US ISM non-manufacturing report fell to 56...7 from 58...0, vs expectations of a 57...1 reading...It was the 2nd monthly decline, something not seen since the June-July....Bad news on the new orders component, which had its biggest percentage decline....Prices paid and employment components both rose...Aussie Rebound....AUDUSD initially fell as low as 0...7194 after the a disappointing retail sales report overnight, and it sparked....Instead, the guidance in the statement was identical...Inflation and growth forecasts were trimmed but by less than feared...As a result, AUD/USD jumped to 0...7265 in what's shaping up to be an outside bullish reversal day...Australian retail sales fell 0...4% in December compared to a flat reading expected...For the quarter sales were up just 0...1% after accounting for inflation, far short of the 0...5% rise expected...It's a rare recent win for a currency on a central bank decision day...That's in line with better sentiment in markets more broadly...The S&P 500 gained 0...7% on Monday after a flat start...Worries about China are on hold with markets there closed for the week...USD/JPY rallied for the second day and hit 110...00, edging over the January highs...Watch for a definitive break in the day ahead or a retreat.
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Intraday Market Thought: Eroding the one-two punch
by Adam Button | Mar 5, 2020 15:15
Markets erase 80% of Wednesday's gains 40 mins into the cash session amid....Also some US senators have announced the White House's goal of setting 1-....If you were to sketch out an ideal scenario to counteract market sentiment....The one-two punch of central banks and politics is exactly what unfolded and it....Until things changed again...Market developments will entirely hinge on the outlook for the virus...Signs of spread continue to percolate but many questions remain unanswered....We don't have answers to those questions but the central bank and....The BoC cut 50 basis points (as we warned) on Wednesday to follow the Fed....An MNI sources story also said the ECB was pondering rate cuts next week while....All are forecast to continue to ease...Had there been no virus, that would have been an extremely powerful signal...Combine that with the latest political developments...Just four days ago Bernie Sanders was a 70% favourite for the Democratic....A Trump vs Biden election is a significantly more market-friendly....Wednesday's one-two punch of central banks and politics is the market's....When the virus does turn for the better, it sets risk assets up for a....For now however it's competing against a virus that threatens to....Just 12 days ago there were 5 confirmed cases in Italy and today the government....The European Commission is already warning about a recession in Italy and....The aforementioned one-two punch appears to be the market's best chance at a..
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Intraday Market Thought: Mnuchin's Bazooka & best vs worst stocks
by Adam Button | Mar 17, 2020 23:49
Monday's bazooka from the Federal Reserve fizzled and on Tuesday Treasury....The initial results were better with a modest bounce in risk, but there are....Futures are already down 4%, US crude oil is below 27 and gold above 1540...The US dollar climbed across the board earlier on Tuesday, as the funding....Moments ago, Ashraf has issued a 3rd Premium trade, backed by charts &....Below are the best and worst performing stocks of the S&P500's consumer....nbsp;....The fiscal plans that are leaking out of the White House and Congress to fight....The latest is a $1...2 trillion program that will include direct payments to Americans of about....That dwarfs the $700B crisis-era TARP bailout...It would be a shock if we didn't exceed the $1...4T crisis-era deficit this year...It could be triple as revenues collapse on the slowdown...The bailouts could also balloon the number...Yesterday there was talk of a $50B airline loan, today Boeing is seeking a....Shares of the company are down more than 70% in a month...The long-end of the US Treasury curve pushed much higher Tuesday and that'....It's not just the US, Spain unveiled plans for up to 200B, which would be 15%....Again, much of that is in credit backstops but every big business bailout....In turn that demands a consumer bailout, and it's banks that are holding....To illustrate, there are $1...2 trillion in low-grade leveraged loans in the US...Those are trading at 84-cents at the moment...Shale companies have $300B in bank debt and virtually all of the companies are....The deeper you look, the more daunting it appears...Even more daunting are the growing political concerns...There is some level of belief in markets that both sides in the US can come....Some Democrats are pushing for a higher minimum wage, bans on buybacks and zero....Some Republicans have other priorities...In FX, the dollar funding squeeze continues despite the swap lines...That argues for severe stress in the financial system despite dramatic Fed....They added to that with a 90-day loans to primary dealers backed by collateral....That's a sign of panic and something far worse than even the drastic..
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Intraday Market Thought: Oil Spill Shrugs the Rest
by Adam Button | Mar 30, 2020 23:50
Each of equities indices, bonds and the US dollar rallied to start the week,....Is it a sign of a bottom, or quarter-end rebalancing? The Australian dollar was....China's official PMIs are due up next...In the Premium Insights, Wednesday's USDJPY short at 111...20 hits final target 108...00 on Friday, while the DOW30 short and EURUSD long were closed on Friday for....nbsp; Below is Ashraf's video for subscribers on Gold/Silver/Indices open....We're hesitant to take a signal from Monday's trading because of uarter-....On the fundamental side, we highlighted the Dallas Fed yesterday and it was far....0 vs +1...2 previously...Comments in the report highlighted strains on cashflow and worries about....The area is being hit particularly hard because of low oil prices...On that front, Brent hit at 17-year low of $21...65 and WTI fell below $20 once again...In Canada, oil is trading at less than $4 and that showed in the loonie...However it's clear that quarter-end flows were a factor in trading on the....Flow-driven trading may continue into Tuesday as the new month gets underway....From Ashraf's Tweets....A few tweets from Ashraf on seeking bottom signs...On sector-driven rally...On why Lombardia...Ashraf's Gold Poll....Increasingly the market will turn to data as March numbers begin to roll in...One coming up at 0100 GMT is the China PMI for March...The manufacturing number is forecast to rebound to 44...8 from 35...7 and services to 42...0 from 29...6...Real-time numbers like car sales and vehicle traffic show a spotty rebound in..
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Intraday Market Thought: Johnson Hospitalised, Oil Awaits Treatment
by Adam Button | Apr 6, 2020 22:59
Sterling slipped after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to the....The Australian dollar was the top performer while the yen lagged...As both gold and silver rally, the Gold/Silver ratio has fallen to as low as 107....The RBA decision is up next...A new Premium trade was posted at the close of the NY session, backed by 3....nbsp;....A statement from 10 Downing said PM Johnson was taken to the ICU for....Cable quickly fell 80 pips to 1...2215 on the report but held the lows from earlier in the day on the report in....In the US, the S&P 500 rallied 7% and broke around a cluster of resistance....That level was the late-March high and the 38...2% retracement of the coronavirus drop...A Fox Business news report indicated that Congressional leaders had briefed....5 trillion stimulus package that's in the works, and will be ready by month....It's another sign of the endless appetite for spending from governments....It's also another reminder of the costs that will need to be paid one day,....In OPEC news, the battle lines for cuts on Thursday continue to harden with more....They have to know that it's virtually impossible to execute a....If that's the case, then the entire call is a public relations exercise...Given the stakes, this would be an odd time for that kind of stunt...A more-likely outcome is a cut and a statement that says they expect the US....When that invariably doesn't happen, they will have cover to cheat or hike....Oil fell nearly 8% on the day...Looking ahead, the RBA is entirely expected to leave rates unchanged at 0...25% in the 0430 GMT rate decision...The latest minutes said there was no appetite for negative rates and the....In normal circumstances it would be far too early to anticipate any kind of....A statement indicating that the pace of bond buying could increase could weigh..
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Intraday Market Thought: Fed, RBNZ Manoeuvre Around Zero
by Ashraf Laidi | May 13, 2020 15:57
Fed Chair Powell manoeuvred his way around the negative rates verbal....The Kiwi is the biggest loser of the day after the Reserve Bank of New Zealand....That's good news for our Premium NZD trades, opened earlier this week...Here's open access to this week's Premium Video...إنتهاز كسر التداول العرضي...Powell: "With interest rates at ZLB and no desire to use negative interest....rdquo; Basically, Powell is seeking new ways to say negative rates are not an....Even hawkish Cleveland Fed's Mester is personalizing the issue, saying "....Meanwhile, the RBNZ increased bond purchases to a NZ$ 60 billion,....quot; For currencies, the implications of one central bank going to zero may....USDX fluctuations are at their tightest since early February, keeping key USD....GBPUSD, however, merits a close look as it breaks below 1...2250s...More importantly, EURUSD is undergoing some key RSI patterns, seen only in....nbsp;....We said in yesterday's IMT “we're watching … the NASDAQ'....the semiconductors index 1800 resistance ”, hours before indices began....There was no trade issued to Premium subscribers, but a suggested trade was..
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Intraday Market Thought: Stocks Jump, Yields Soar on Jobs, ECB, Corona Narrative
by Ashraf Laidi | Jun 5, 2020 18:06
Thursday's bond yield break out was joined by broad and intense rallies in....US 10-year yield jumps 43% for the week, its biggest rise on record and double....DOW30 shot-up more than 3% to break further away from its 200-DMA, while....The US dollar extended its longest losing streak in three years and EURUSD....أهم سؤال في الاسواق...The new wave of buying intensified in Friday's Asia session on a....Let's look at some trading questions below...In the US, the bond market painted a positive picture in a different way as....In that case, it's a sign of dwindling demand for safety as the....Given that the Nasdaq hit a record high, the trade has already run a great deal....That paradigm continues to draw dollars out of the US...Trading Questions....The question I raised in this week's English and Arabic videos as to whether....This now helps us figure out whether sell EURUSD for the 1...10s, or wait for further pullbacks to buy for higher targets...Gold traders watch the 1677 support and bonds fixated on the 100-DMA at 1...01%, with the highest daily RSI since October 2018.
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Intraday Market Thought: Hotspot Hopscotch
by Adam Button | Jun 15, 2020 15:15
Rising virus cases in a number of US and China hotspots have put risk trades on....CHF and EUR are the highest performers, while gold and silver attempt to recover....CFTC positioning data showed euro net longs at the highest in two years...It is also interesting to mention last week'snote from JP Morgan's....The re-opening narrative is running into a hard truth: That many people won'....Those who are overzealous might face a second wave...The US remains the main focus and a number of primarily southern states....Florida reported record numbers on Saturday and Texas hospitalizations....Headlines from those hotspots began to move the market late last week but it&....The overall number of new cases on Saturday hit a record of 142,672 with....However Saudi new cases hit a record Sunday and deaths in Iran hit a two-....Tokyo reported the most cases in 5 weeks with half traced back to nightclubs...Even China is slipping backwards with Beijing forced to lockdown part of the....In a sense, none of this is particularly surprising so what happens next will be....Early-week indications are soft but certainly not insurmountable...Kolanovic's latest note....Marko Kolanovic, JPM's quant guru said last week “With the recent....nbsp;“Positioning in equities did not increase significantly and China....rdquo; Kolanovic, who's had a solid track record in calling major troughs....CFTC Commitments of Traders....Speculative net futures trader positions as of the close on Tuesday...Net short denoted by - long by....EUR +96K vs +81K prior...GBP -24K vs -36K prior...JPY +17K vs +33K prior...CHF +2K vs +9K prior...CAD -23K vs -33K prior...AUD -37K vs -41K prior...NZD -11K vs -13K prior...The specs largely disbelieve the reopening story but the enormous long-..
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Intraday Market Thought: Election Scenario #1: Blue Wave
by Adam Button | Oct 30, 2020 20:06
In the run-up to the election we will look at the most likely outcomes and how....The first scenario is a "blue wave"; a scenario where Biden wins and....There are currently 4 existing Premium trades open, short FB at 275 (now 261)....nbsp; Below is the Premium video for subscribers, ahead of US Polling Day...nbsp;....This scenario would give Democrats the most power, similar to Obama's first....Given deep partisan divisions, it's a rare opportunity to be able to deliver....In this election, it's also the most-likely scenario as measure by polls and....That said, it's a narrow probability, in the Senate in particular where....Given that and the high uncertainty around the election, this outcome is not....For risk assets, this is the most-bullish scenario...It would mean a large stimulus package as soon as Biden takes office in January....In FX, the US dollar would generally weaken and emerging market currencies....On the other border, CAD may see some initial softness on worries about....With the dollar weakness and the promise of deep deficit spending, precious....How strongly Biden can deliver on his promises may depend on how strong the....A one-seat majority in the Senate would leave every initiative at the mercy of a....A larger wave would raise the odds of more-aggressive measures and that could....In particular, Biden has promised to reverse Trump's corporate tax cut....On corporate taxes, Democratic House leader Pelosi hinted Thursday that might....Meanwhile, taxing higher incomes is unlikely to hurt the market but fears of..
