ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
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The vote by the United Kingdom (UK) to leave the European Union (EU), aka Brexit, kicked off a series of market events that collectively seem very surreal. First, there was the global rally in financial markets going into the vote. Relieved market participants appeared to anticipate a victory by the Remain side. Next came two … Read more
+500% spike in searches for "buy gold" in the past four hourshttps://t.co/pmMsRUcAwK — GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) June 24, 2016 Regular readers know that Google Trends has become my favorite sentiment indicator for assessing gold at the extremes. So I hopped up when I heard about the above tweet on the latest podcast of “Slate Money.” (That … Read more
(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are likely to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades are … Read more
(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are likely to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades are … Read more
At the time of writing, currency markets opened trading this week with Brexit fear continuing to recede in the form of a big gap in favor of the British pound (FXB). Google Trends shows that on Friday, search interest in Brexit took a big step back (down 17%). This move confirms the apparent change in … Read more
Two days ago I defined and described the case for a blow-off top in SPDR Gold Shares (GLD). Speculators have provided a confirmation of a top, yet there is now a caveat based on GLD’s ability to comeback a bit on Friday (June 17th). After pulling back the reins for three weeks on net longs … Read more
In early May, 2016, the SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) hit a new 15-month high. At that time, I considered the prospects for a blow-off top in GLD. I concluded that a top had not yet arrived but would likely come “sometime” over the horizon. I used Google Trends, one of my favorite tools for analyzing … Read more
Earlier this month, I used Google Trends to demonstrate that the currency market lagged a key shift in Brexit sentiment. Just 10 days later, interest (aka anxiety?) in Brexit, the prospect of a UK exit from the European Union (EU), has scaled new heights while the British pound (FXB) has hit new lows for the … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on February 22, 2016. Click here to read the entire piece.) Sometimes the test of a change in sentiment is not in the pace of the new trend, but instead in the behavior after that trend first gets tested. {snip} Source: FreeStockCharts.com … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on May 8, 2016. Click here to read the entire piece.) Speculators are now net long gold at levels that surpass the financial crisis of 2008/2009 and the major 2011 peak in gold prices. Source: Oanda’s CFTC’s Commitments of Traders Given this … Read more