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German Bunds have benefitted the most out of all the Europeans from the surge of government bond buying in recent years that has been provoked by the combination of fear and QE. The consequent rise in prices/fall in yields ended…

There have been several top extensions in various US indices lately, as reported. European equities have not really shared in the fun of the Trump rally and so similar top signals have been scarce on the other side of the Atlantic.…

Copper futures broke down from a daily scale compression earlier in the month and have since bounced back to it again: As regular readers will recognise, these ‘returns to compression’ usually offer a second chance to take a trade after…

A well-known economist has just pronounced that US equities are over-valued. Perhaps this is newsworthy because the world’s most famous investor has also just opined that stocks still have value because interest rates (and bond yields) are low and likely…

There have been two extension signals in the US$ in the last two days, both indicating that the current US$ strength is overdone: Due to the way the New Zealand currency is quoted, the signal in the first chart is a…

Energy markets have been stuck in trading ranges for almost a year and in particularly tight ranges for the last two months. There have been compression signals during this most recent tight range but no break into a trend. Now…

There was a flurry of activity in Grains last week as a new arrangement for the Renewable Fuels Standard was rumoured to be planned/plotted by refinery investor Carl Icahn, who is an adviser to Mr Trump. This caused Corn to rise…

There were fresh weekly-scale top extensions in various US indices last week and in the MDax index of second-tier German companies. Here we show the Dow and MDax but there were similar signals in the S&P 500 and Russell 1000…

The ‘big three’ US indices have all made top extensions in the last 24 hours. These are not the first top extensions – we pointed out such signals in the Nasdaq 100 and Dax futures in the January 27th edition that…

We are expecting a large market turn today. The diagram of when turns are expected in the upcoming month is displayed in the AlphaMail  section of this site but here it is again to emphasise just how large then turn…