HEDLines – Archive

The ongoing grain rally has now produced a top extension in corn, to go with those already seen in Soya and cotton. Soya meal and beans (not shown here) also made further similar signals: There has been no signal in…

There were compressions in US 30-year government bond futures as reported in the April 6th edition. Prices moved up a bit and have now slipped back to the compressed levels where we expect to find support. Buy some. We have…

Soya beans and soya meal both made top extensions yesterday. This comes two days after the same signal in cotton, as reported in the last edition. This is an opportunity to short-sell either one of these and to review the…

Stocks have begun to stir in the first signs that the new bubble we proposed in the March 29 edition is now inflating. European markets have broken upward from recent daily compressions, after some long sideways ranges. Here are Germany and the UK…

There has been some selling of the £ sterling since the prospect of the UK leaving the EU first loomed over the markets. The referendum is in late June so it is much in the news and departure is considered a…

Gold futures made a daily-scale compression yesterday and have moved up above it today. A closing break would indicate more strength to come: We have had a number of calls from readers looking for guidance on gold as there has…

US treasury bonds have been trading sideways for some weeks. This led to some recent daily-scale compression signals in bonds and ten-year notes that broke upward (in price) and downward (in yield) a few days ago. This probably started the…

Crude oil prices have fallen over the last three weeks and are now back at a support level. We define this as the price area where an old compression formed before the subsequent upward price move began – it acts…

There have been daily-scale compressions in several European indices that are breaking down today. This has produced a strange divergence in which stock markets in those countries that have overt heavy central bank intervention in the form of asset purchases…

People like stories that start with ‘once upon a time’ and lead up to the present. They are a pleasing way to explain how things came to be the way they are and if they strike a chord these stories…