Well said Amoeba! Perhaps now the kiddies will play nice and we can get back to the market...
I'm looking forward to CH's next, completely nonpolitical, post about the market. I sense a bear trap door ahead, with year to date lows, and then some. In fact, I think the yearly high has been put in, and pain b4 gain.
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Well said Amoeba! Perhaps now the kiddies will play nice and we can get back to the market...
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Okay, here's the technical picture. The market has turned ugly (obviously). From a technical perspective, I did not expect this much selling. That's why you've seen me post some links to help you frame the real underlying angst of the market. If you think the insiders and big money simply use charts to navigate these waters, you'd be wrong. They know how things work and they know when risk is rising and falling. Charts can tell us a lot most of the time, but they get tricky when things are different. Global CBs are under pressure as never before and so we are almost certainly going to see a battle of perhaps epic proportion for control of the global economy to include the monetary system. I am just trying to help you develop a basic foundation of what could play out over the coming weeks and months ahead. These things cannot be timed very easily, if at all. In environments like this, you might consider keeping some degree of powder dry depending on your risk tolerance.
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Price on the S&P 500 broke support and appears headed for a test of the 200 dma. I would not assume it will hold if it gets there; although it may. A break of support could also happen before a turn back up. That is what I would expect in a bull market, which is where we still are. But, while it is still a bull market, a lot of damage could be done before a bear market is declared if things continue to bias to the South. So betting on a bullish outcome does carry risk. Now, I am not suggesting we are heading into a bear market. I am just trying to frame risk. And the risk appears to be rising.
Let's look at some other risk measures currently in play. NAAIM is still bullish overall, though some modest shorts are in evidence. The options are neutral to bearish for Friday. My intermediate term system has flipped negative. Breadth is negative and falling hard.
So, I am looking for more selling for a possible retest of the lows. NAAIM would seem to suggest that the market is not ready to fall apart. Perhaps not for weeks or months yet. Again, you can't time the risk element that's in play.
I have raised cash myself in order to not have a ton of stock exposure right now. If you have cash on the sidelines, you may want to consider redeploying some if we test the lows, but volatility could make that very difficult. Especially for TSP.
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With the US giving up it's World Leadership and China making it's play do you think the US dollar will lose it's dominance to the Chinese Yuan (renminbi)?
May the force be with us.
Certainly a risk, I think one reason for tariffs; we're re-establishing US world leadership after 8 years adrift.
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As James Rickards argues in Currency Wars, this is more than just a concern for economists and investors. The United States is facing serious threats to its national security, from clandestine gold purchases by China to the hidden agendas of sovereign wealth funds. Greater than any single threat is the very real danger of the collapse of the dollar itself.
Baffling to many observers is the rank failure of economists to foresee or prevent the economic catastrophes of recent years. Not only have their theories failed to prevent calamity, they are making the currency wars worse. The U. S. Federal Reserve has engaged in the greatest gamble in the history of finance, a sustained effort to stimulate the economy by printing money on a trillion-dollar scale. Its solutions present hidden new dangers while resolving none of the current dilemmas.
While the outcome of the new currency war is not yet certain, some version of the worst-case scenario is almost inevitable if U.S. and world economic leaders fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors. Rickards untangles the web of failed paradigms, wishful thinking, and arrogance driving current public policy and points the way toward a more informed and effective course of action.
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