AmenRa's Corner

A place where a skillful caddy always offers cool contemplation when it comes to your "stick" selection.



Creditcane™: I'm trying to work here but the market isn't making this easy.



SPX
Doji day (morning star?). Midpoint below EMA(10). Still above all SMA's (go figure). Tested and failed the 14.6% retrace (1319.09). Held SMA(55). No daily 3LB changes (reversal is 1332.87). QE2infinity. "JBTFD. Don't question it. Just do it. Trust me."



DXY
Spinning top day. Midpoint below EMA(10). Tested and held 0.0% retrace (74.70). Below all SMA's. No daily 3LB changes (reversal is 75.40).



VIX
Bullish short day. Midpoint below EMA(10). Still below all SMA's. No daily 3LB changes (reversal is 17.87). Still in the "no fear" zone.




GOLD
Bullish harami day. Midpoint above EMA(10). No test of 0.0% retrace. Still above all SMA's. No daily 3LB changes (reversal is 1452.50). Holding above upper trend line. Must have the precious.



AUDJPY
Bullish thrusting day. Midpoint above EMA(10). Currently above all SMA's. Held parallel trend line. No daily 3LB changes (reversal is 0.8650).



JNK
Bullish long day. Midpoint above EMA(10). Still above all SMA's. Still above its 50.0% retrace (40.42). Still below lower trend line. No daily 3LB changes (reversal is 40.21).



10YR YIELD
Bearish long day. No test of 0.0% retrace at 37.44. Now below SMA(55). Midpoint below EMA(10). Tested and failed 61.8% retrace (35.14). Held the upper trend line. Daily 3LB reversal down (reversal is 35.70).



WTI
Bullish thrusting day. Still above all SMA's. Midpoint below EMA(10). No test of 0.0% retrace. No dally 3LB changes (reversal is 112.79). Tested and held weekly 3LB reversal price (105.39).



SILVER
Bullish short day. Still above all SMA's. Midpoint above EMA(10). No test of 0.0% retrace. Holding upper trend line. No daily 3LB changes (reversal is 39.19).



BKX
Bearish long day. Midpoint below EMA(10). Tested and failed SMA(21). Still above its 38.2% retrace (51.48). No daily 3LB changes (reversal is 53.31).



AT's Silver "Glimpse"




LEFTBACK'S BOND REPORT

The Bond Report 4.13.11

Another odd day in the bond market. Fairly quiet except that 10y and 30y went bid on the back of an indifferent 10y auction before tomorrow's POMO of... the very same 10y. In corporates, HY was off the hook for some reason. In muniland the action in IQI continues to be horrendous on a day when everything else was performing decently.

Corpies: LQD 0.18%; AGG 0.11%; JNK 0.55%; HYG 0.48%
Govies: TLT 0.63%; IEI 0.11%; TIP 0.22%
Munis: IQI -1.01%; MUB 0.00%
Mortgages: MBB 0.11%
Specialty: ZROZ 0.73%; TBT -1.13%; EMB 0.10%

We are not terribly excited about US credit just now. We are 19% long. The breakdown is 7% JNK, 3% AGG, 6% TLT, 3% IEI. We are hedged to 15%, so net exposure is 4%.

In equities we are 26% long (all dividends) US, plus 5% long EWJ. Cash is king.



20 comments:

Andy T said...

Silver has had a "fallen and can't get back up" look on the very short term intraday. The whole pattern suggests further sideways/lower price action next 24-48 hours.

Andy T said...

Gotta luv some of the folks at TBP:

In regard to firms speculating on oil prices:
~~~~~
“DeDude Says:
April 13th, 2011 at 6:55 pm
I don’t understand why we let non-commercials invest in this without imposing a 90% tax on any profit they make. What they are doing is un-american activity undermining society, and theft from consumers of oil products. Off with their heads.”

What's funny is that a few people immediately agreed with him.

I suppose the Government should just dictate what the price of oil and gasoline will be...then we will be "ok."

Andy T said...

Added in a "glimpse" at how I see the very short term price action in Silver in 'wave terms'

CV said...

@Andy

I always like looking at your WAVE charts on silver...

I hate to be so "silver centric" in all my posts, but it's the top of what I'm interested in...

Really - for me - I think a nearby "top" is in order (whether it's been already reached - double tops at 42 - goes to 45 - or even 50)...

But it is STILL very important to me to see how these levels play out...

I wrote many months ago that I personally think that this move in silver is ACTUALLY "pointing the way" to the NEXT MAJOR TOP (defined by wave structure)...

IOW - wherever this one exhausts... It'll give a good idea as to the structure from the "launch point" last summer, and what the grander wave will actually be...

That's why I think the OVERBOUGHT crowd has it "kind of" wrong...

To me this isn't PEAKING ACTION... Well - it IS - but only in a way that will allow for a technically larger move to occur within, say, the next 18 months... The chart/price are "catching up" after 30 years of neglect...

CV is still waiting for lower prices though...

CV said...

Yeah... And that's what I said about "waiting for gold" with a "6" handle too... lol

Anonymous said...

AT,

DeDude is "DeLusional", at best..

ibid.

CV said...

@LB

I was wondering about Greece/Portugal...

Naw... Nevermind... I suppose I could just "paste" that same worry and have it run about every ODD week and it would still be a valid wonder...

Anonymous said...

was out, and about, at the local 'secondary Markets'...

re: Silver

there is definitely No Shortage.

unlike '008, there was Supply (and of nice looking inventory)

and, Buyers! @40+/Z

also, at the Animal auction, Prices were much firmer..seemingly, "Back to Normal"...though, the Buyers were few, Buying for 'multiple Accounts' -- many of the 'Hayseeds' were sitting on their 'gimme' Hats (so to speak) ...

AAIP

CV said...

@Anon

That's why I couldn't take commenting on TBP blog anymore...

People like DeDude drove me crazy...

So I did what any "natural instincts" would lead a person to doing...

I started a new blog, so that I could just drive everybody else crazy! :-)

It's the perfect yin-yan to the universe... ORDER HAS BEEN RESTORED!

Anonymous said...

cv--

"Greece" and "Portugal" are, just, 21stC. stand-ins for the "Japanese 'zombie banks' of the '90s" ..

ibid.

Anonymous said...

it goes 'Fukushima' when peep start believing that 'Espana' is = in that 'kabuki theatre'..

AAIP

CV said...

@Andy

Here's something I've been thinking...

It might be interesting to do a SILVER:GOLD ratio wave analysis...

The rationale is as follows...

The "classic" all time GOLD:SILVER ratio is 16:1 (I can answer you if anyone needs to know "why", but SHAME on you if you don't - it would mean that you've hardly spent any time researching the subject - which would make anyone's criticism of me talking about this excessively a bit pale)...

Anyway - I "think" the highest imbalance was reached at around 100-1 (gotta check)... It's back down under 40 now... But my point is that I'm wondering if the move from 16 to 100 (or the latest wave in going from 100 [perhaps on it's way to 16, or better], is following a wave pattern)...

Could be ESPECIALLY useful to metals traders who these days are swapping physical METALS (copper too) based on these imbalances...

Kind of like the NEW FOREX swaps...

CV said...

@Andy (from other thread - I'm 'catching up' here)...

One wonders why the Government didn't just Auction off the Shuttles? Go Min. Reserve at $200MM...recoup some of the cost...

Find out who "really" wanted to buy...


---

I'm thinking HUGO DRAX might have taken 6 of them...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGo748GqS9g

Was DRAX a Bilderberg group member - perchance?

CV said...

Rumor has it that Drax left his entire fortune to the "Bill & Melissa Gates Foundation" (along with St. Warren...

AKA - The Human EUGENICS Foundation...

Drax (& Hitler) seem to appreciate things like that...

CV said...

I suppose the Government should just dictate what the price of oil and gasoline will be...then we will be "ok."

Yeah - but why stop with oil?... Let the government dictate the price on EVERYTHING...

That worked real well for the people in Moscow standing in bread lines to get it at the "government agreed upon" price...

wunsacon said...

Andy, I can't remember ever disagreeing with DeDude...until just this once.

I'd like to cordially disagree with him. But, it's late. And I'm too tired to articulate much.

wunsacon said...

Anyone here expect Nixon price controls by 2013?

Regardless of who takes the WH, I mostly do...

Andy T said...

@wunsa.

I see "price controls" in our future...if some of the comments at TBP are any indication.

Scary times indeed.

wunsacon said...

I'm thinking maybe the Fed really does pause after QE2. Why? To lower people's inflationary expectations.

For one, it will lower commodities.

But, what happens to Treasury yields?

On the one hand, one might argue:
- Yields have to rise in order to draw money out of other investments.

On the other hand, one might argue:
- Because people fear the absence of QE3 will cause us to return to deflation, private investors will seek the safety of Treasuries. In other words, the Fed's decision to pull away their bid will have the perverse effect of encouraging private investors to step in to take the Fed's place! Yields *won't* go up. They might actually go down.

But, regardless of which hand wins, it seems commodity prices will come down.

Yes? No?

CV said...

@wunsa

No... IMO

More than half the peeps don't even know what "QE3" is... (unless it's a new cruise line - or energy drink)...

Commodity prices coming down only means "shortages"...

You'd have to think the banks give a FF about people, and the price they pay for anything...

Easier to create a lot of debt, be in control of that debt, print yourself all the money you need to bid up owning anything non-discretionary...

That's the way it was with everything "discretionary" (until people ran out of the monthly nut to pay back)...

Can't afford a 6th tv? Fine! I'll take your sandwich!

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