Monthly Archives: May 2018

Economic Old Age: 40% Unemployment Ain’t Awesome

The chart below reflects the boys and girls and robo-traders of Wall Street enjoying their last game of chart-point Ping-Pong. As is evident, the squeeze is on, and we don’t think this particular triangle “resolves” with another breakout into the financial stratosphere. When the market peaked at 2873 on the S&P 500 back on January 26, there were 170 points of daylight…

Weekly S&P 500 ChartStorm – May 6

Those that follow my personal account on Twitter will be familiar with my weekly S&P 500 #ChartStorm in which I pick out 10 charts on the S&P 500 to tweet. Typically I’ll pick a couple of themes and hammer them home with the charts, but sometimes it’s just a selection of charts that will add to your…

Gold & Silver: The Prozac Markets

The Dow Jones on Wednesday broke down to double digits in the BEV chart below (-10.11% / 23,924).  I was wondering if this was the week the Dow Jones was going to take out its -11.58% (23,533) from March 23rd.  But Friday came leaving the Dow at -8.84% / 24,262. The problem for the bulls…

USDCAD Weekly Analysis – Sunday, May 6

USDCAD’s bounce from 1.2526 extended to as high as 1.2917. A further rise is still possible in the coming days and next target would be at 1.3100 area. Near term support is at 1.2785, a breakdown below this level would indicate that the bounce had completed at 1.2917 already, then another fall towards the bottom…

Should You Buy The Banks Right Now?

Is the U.S. the “last man standing” when it comes to the (previously) synchronized global expansion? I don’t know, but what I do know is that the idea of synchronous global growth has been undermined recently by soft data in Europe. Surprise – it’s falling apart: (SocGen) I mean, maybe not. There are some supply-side…