HEDLines – Archive

Yesterday’s market responses to the actions of Russia’s petulant midget were quite violent and then faded. Commodities rallied strongly, including Gold. That produced a top extension, as we reported part-way through the day and that signal was still ‘good’ through…

Attributed to the great man but sadly there is no evidence that he said it, or anything like it. The phrase does encapsulate a great truth however – to succeed in markets, go against the crowd when it is most…

Equity markets are surprisingly steady, considering the see-sawing military tension on three sides of poor Ukraine. Wars have a habit of spreading, so if this one starts, it is not guaranteed that it would remain confined to that sad place.…

There was a daily-scale top extension in 5-Yr US T Note yields yesterday – these behave as the reciprocal of price, so this is a bottom extension in the actual instrument. This comes hard on the heels of similar signals…

We have commented only a few times on Bitcoin since 2017. The first time we actually made a recommendation was in the recent January 25th edition when we advised buying Bitcoin (along with several other assets) for a bounce. They…

The bounce that we expected is happening in selected assets, as written in the last edition. There have been a few more signals to report that tend to confirm that the bounce will continue and a couple of warnings too.…

There was further weakness in Equity markets after we sent yesterday’s edition, followed by a strong bounce into the US closing bell. There were daily-scale bottom extension signals in the ‘big three’ US indices, as shown here: In isolation, this…

The various US stock market indices that we follow have been making compression signals for some time. Compressions indicate that the market is on a ‘knife edge’ when we usually adopt a neutral posture, waiting for the market to ‘tip…

We have been pointing out for some time that US Equity indices are in a compressed condition. Compressions have been coming and going at both weekly and daily scales but we don’t report all of them as this is merely…

There have been extensions in five-year and ten-year US Treasury notes in the last 48 hours. These have been in both yield and price series and here we show one of each. It is likely that the recent ‘leg’ down…