HEDLines – Archive

There was a single solitary compression in soy bean oil on Thursday last week, followed by a break up on Friday. This is our cue to buy some, which we advise doing right now. The appropriate contract to buy is…

There is fairly large turn due in equity markets tomorrow, Monday the 28th September, as shown in the turn update schedule in the September 1st edition. The US equity markets are in a churning range with high daily volatility of…

There has been renewed weakness in equity markets over the past few days, particularly in Europe, the US and Japan. The dominant signal in our view of the world is still the widespread occurrence of weekly-scale compressions in many equity…

The October delivery cotton contract made a bottom extension at a daily-scale yesterday, so we would now buy it – probably the December contract. We also recommend buying corn now as the monthly-scale bottom extension is still ‘in date’ and…

What will the Fed do next? We live in strange times. Social attitudes change, sometimes fast and what comes along is often completely at odds with what came before. The old bedrock assumption that free market economies renew themselves through…

Equity markets have formed a new range since the drop into late August, as we warned was possible in the September 1st edition of HEDlines The range has been quite tightly defined and we have not yet seen compression signals…

There is a turn due in equity markets over this weekend, so in view of the recent weakness it is worth replacing some or all of the long positions that were initially taken on the 24th/25th August. There are no…

Trading was quiet yesterday due to the one-day public holiday in London and S&P prices hovered near the highs of the recent rally. We have been concerned that prices might not make any further headway as mentioned in the last…

The bounce that we anticipated is occurring and long positions advised on the 24th and 25th August in various equity markets have open profits of varying sizes. We wrote in the first of this series of Equities – what next?…

As reported, we have seen multiple bottom extensions in stock indices around the world, now including China and Japan: These moments of general panic are good times to buy those valuable assets that have been dragged down by the crowd’s…