Congratulations all who bought the dip this am. We are headed for the 12th up week in QQQ ever since "the rally was over" declaration.
March 12, 2012 THIS EXCELLENT CALL AND INSIGHTFUL CHART RECORDED FOR POSTERITY. [color=light blue]March 8, 2012 bone ET Sponsor http://www.spreadprofessor.com There is NO competent technical basis to be calling a major market "top" in the S&P. None. ... If I was already long, I would lighten up at 1370 ( last Fall's highs ), 1425, 1500, and short 1575.[/color] http://i40.tinypic.com/33o5gxu.png March 22, 2012 MORE EXCELLENT ANALYSIS & INSIGHTFUL CHARTING RECORDED FOR POSTERITY. March 21, 2012 bone ET Sponsor http://www.spreadprofessor.com We are not in a 'rising wedge'. There is no 'uptrend degradation'. We are in a full blown bullish trend channel... http://i44.tinypic.com/2wn4x0l.png
Link to: www.fitrade.com By: Alex Cho with Fitrade Quote from: Credit Suisse The ECB provided another substantial liquidity injection to the financial system in the euro area. The second 3-year LTRO (long-term refinancing operation) provided a total of nearly â¬530bn in fixed rate funding, slightly above the consensus median expectation of â¬450bn. No further 3-year funding operations have been announced but we would not exclude them if events on the economic and/or political front turn more sour again. (end quote) The recent decline in the EUR/USD pair has everything to do with LTRO. As the ECB accumulates a total of 3.1T Euros in European Debt on its balance sheet. Which means that 3.1T Euros have been âcreatedâ, or to be more accurate. The ECB issued more currency, and bought bond notes from the secondary market in order to inflate bond values, drop interest rates, while reducing the supply of bonds on the secondary markets. Forcing large institutions to invest in other assets that have equivalent scale like the stock market, or chase other high yielding assets like foreign treasury bonds with lower credit ratings. The theme is that both the federal reserve and ECB have halted their rapid issuance of currency. Because both forms of policy easing is over in both the USA and Europe. We have to compare the current Federal reserve rate to the ECB rate to determine whoâs inflating the economy faster. From: Global-Rates ECB Interest Rates Over Previous Year Currently the ECB has a 1% interest rate which is less inflationary than what the Federal Reserve has opted for in terms of interest rate policy. From: Global-Rates Federal Reserve Interest Rates Over Previous Year Currently the Federal reserve has a .25% interest rate. So going forward the US economy is going to inflate at a faster rate, which should, and actually has lead to the reversal in the EUR/USD pair. EUR/USD has recovered after I highlighted the pivot point on the chart in my previous blog post, and I believe the EUR/USD will continue to go higher based on the comparative interest rate structure between the two economic zones. The downside is that the EUR/USD falls lower on tail risk which would lead to another round of LTRO, or if economic growth were to miss expectations leading to ECB interest rate cuts. Any mix of negative data from Europe in other words, will promptly reverse the positive trend in the EUR/USD.
Gold & Silver indicate where stocks want to go ... March 14, 2012 Why did ET admin / mods open two of my unread private messages ? Anyone got the guts to own up ?
Does this reduce the risk of a waterfall selloff then? How many shorts are there that we've had a 20% short covering rally?
Yep BUBBLE ben bernanke saying today that he would be providing more necessary liquidity! Investors addicted to the dribble that BUBBLE ben bernake speaks of, this is a pathetic market, only way to move it is with stimulus, talk about a sad, pathetic market place! Whew, Im just wondering when they will be able to take this market off all these trillions of dollars they are pumping into it, I want to see a real market, not a market thats pumped up with cheap liquidity. Enough of the games.