Closing Thoughts

1:00 pm PST. Today’s price action is proof positive that one should not both buy treasuries and dollars. I see hedge fund managers saying buy treasuries and the dollar. One ought to trade them inversely. A bullish dollar is bearish on treasuries, and conversely and bearish dollar is bullish on treasuries.

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The dollar etf, UUP, juxtaposed with TLT in black. 

IWM closed green. GDX closed red and looks bearish.

Russell 2000

11:06 am PST. The IWM momentarily just went green. I think if it closes positively today, that will be two days in a row closing positive. That is bullish, at least for me. There could be an inverse H&S.

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Goldman Sachs

9:48 am PST. GS missed earnings and is weighing heavily on the financial stocks. I wonder if this is what’s causing the rise in treasuries today. Treasuries are much stronger than the metals.

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Silver

9:28 am PST. Silver is noticeably weaker than gold and could not retrace fully the morning’s drop. If it closes red, we could see a waterfall in the next day or two.

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Treasuries

7:48 am PST. Treasuries are still moving higher. I just saw a 567,700 share print at 119.38 on LQD, which has a very similar pattern to TLT. That was just less than half the total volume so far today, significant. Bullish above, bearish below. BAC had 1 million shares traded at 22.65-.66. The flight to treasuries is weighing on stocks and the dollar, but the tide may be turning.

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GDX

6:50 am PST. GDX shows a strong sell-off. I expect a test of 23.47 at the very least, if not lower. I saw a block trade of 630,000 shares on GFI at 4.01, could be a sell.

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The Dollar

6:04 am PST. The price action in the dollar looks interesting and shows some cause for concern for dollar bulls and gold bears. This morning the dollar has continued southward and almost looks as though it could waterfall. I plan to watch the price action in the dollar carefully today. If the USD/JPY breaks below 108 and closes below, that would be bearish.

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The Euro etf, FXE, looks as though it bounced off this lower trendline. Screen Shot 2017-04-18 at 6.03.17 AMScreen Shot 2017-04-18 at 6.03.53 AM

Closing Thoughts

1:01 pm PST. SPX closed really nicely, green for a change! I have the upper trendline as my target for now. Once we rally over the upper trendline, I anticipate we will move to make a new high. I imagine the market will probably do some back and fill into the trendline.

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The Vix is still in backwardation, but I thought we saw a nice drop in VXX today, and treasuries. The fear trades are coming off.

The market makers moved back into corporate bonds. I saw a 1.2 million share print at 87.41 on HYG. I also see a nice a-b-c corrective wave on HYG too. Looks bullish.

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