Tuesday 16 January 2018

The accelerated mainstream

US equity indexes closed broadly weak, sp -9pts at 2776. The two leaders - Trans/R2K, settled -1.3% and -1.2% respectively. VIX settled +11.8% at 11.66. Near term outlook threatens a little further cooling, but even <2730 looks out of range. More broadly, 2950/3047 remains on track by early summer.


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Summary

Trading day 10 of 2018 began on a very bullish note, with all six of the main indexes breaking new historic highs. However, the market became stuck at sp'2807, and saw increasing weakness into the mid afternoon. The fact we actually filled the opening gap is something of a novelty.

With equities seeing a significant reversal to the downside, volatility picked up, with the VIX breaking into the 12s, for the first time since Dec'1st. The 12s aren't exactly anything for the VIX bulls to get excited about though.

S/t, there is moderate threat of further cooling to around sp'2750, which would arguably equate to VIX 13/14s. More broadly though, its all to be regarded as noise, as we're well on the way to first big target of 2950/3047.
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The accelerated mainstream


An accelerated Santolli

Watching the cheerleaders this lunchtime, it was the same old nonsense. They are still overly twitchy as the market just keeps on broadly climbing. Now they are using words like 'Acceleration'. Anyone remember the Christmas tree picture I did? Anyone starting to fully realise what is actually happening here?

-Few are considering that commodities are on the edge of a major surge (CRB >197s)
-Price structure in many world markets (Russia, China, Italy) offers 'basic upside' of around 20%
-A number of key world markets are close/in the process of breaking out, giving high confidence for the spring/early summer
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One more day closer to summer.
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Goodnight from London
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