May WTI futures are off almost 35% since Friday’s close. This drops it below the 17.12 target we first identified in March 2019 when, at 59.32, CL had completed a rising wedge and tagged multiple channel lines. Members might recall the 17.12 target was originally set for April 2023 in keeping with a March 2019 … continue reading →
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It’s interesting how Khashoggi’s murder top-ticked oil and gas prices… …and, so soon after Trump’s latest demand that OPEC lower oil prices. I’m certainly not insinuating that Trump had anything to do with Khashoggi’s murder. But, OPEC ignored Trump’s Sep 20 demand. Two weeks later, oil prices had spiked 10% higher. Since Oct 3, the … continue reading →
Over the last 20 years, we’ve seen two yield curve (2s10s) inversions: essentially all of 2000 and Dec 2005-May 2007. The inversions themselves posed no issues for equity markets. It was the dramatic unwinding of those inversions that produced crashes.Eight months ago, we almost had another. 2s10s had fallen to a trend line connecting those … continue reading →
Catch this news flash yesterday? Trump, ironically at a White House meeting with the National Council for the American Worker: You’re gonna see on China, today, right after close of business…we’ll be announcing something, uh, and it will be a lot of money coming into the coffers of the United States of America, a lot … continue reading →
As we noted yesterday, SPX is hanging on by the skin of its teeth to a breakout. Despite an 18-pt intraday plunge, it recovered by the end of the session thanks to a timely decline in VIX and rally in WTI. Will it be enough to keep the trend intact? continued for members… The daily … continue reading →
After allowing a six-session slump (that saw SPX nail our downside target), The Powers That Be can be forgiven for insisting on an overnight ramp job.Last night, it was USDJPY pushing through horizontal resistance, VIX getting clobbered through three separate moving averages, and oil continuing a nice bounce off our 48.63 target. It should be enough … continue reading →