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The Commercial Hedgers are considered the smart money. The Speculators are considered the dumb money.
The rise in yields corresponds with the decline in Treasury prices. A bounce is ahead of us in 2017.
Commercial traders have built up their most bullish position since February of 2013.
Commercial traders are now long 50% more long than they are short. This is the most bullish COT Ratio reading since July of 2011.
The speculative side of this trade have built up their most concentrated short position since February of 2013 and their largest net short position since March of 2012. The speculators are usually wrong. They set their recent COT Ratio high two weeks before the market topped out. The concentration of their short position should give pause to new short sellers.
The technical picture suggests a bounce is due.
BOND RISK LEVELS
Latest Value(s):
- Last Reading: 2.0 December 27th, 2016
Extreme Values:
- Excessive Optimism: 8.0
- Excessive Pessimism: 2.0
BOND OPTIX WEEKLY
Latest Value(s):
- Last Reading: 33.0 December 23rd,, 2016
Extreme Values:
- Excessive Optimism: 70.0
- Excessive Pessimism: 40.0
The Treasury prices are oversold on the March 30-year Treasury Bond futures.
The evidence is displayed with the buyers of US Treasury Bonds. I side with the commercial traders. The dramatic imbalance in positions between the commercial and speculative traders suggests a bounce higher is imminent.
My Elliot Wave Of Bonds – TLT:
Elliott Wave 2 Theory
Elliott Wave (2) is the first correction against the new trend
Elliott Wave (2) corrects wave (1), but can never extend beyond the starting point of wave one. Typically, the news is still bad. As prices retest the prior low, bearish sentiment quickly builds, and “the crowd” haughtily reminds all that the bear market is still deeply ensconced. Still, some positive signs appear for those who are looking: volume should be lower during wave two
Elliott Wave 3 Theory
Elliott Wave (3) is usually the strongest and longest wave
Elliott Wave (3) is usually the largest and most powerful wave in a trend. The news is now positive and fundamental analysts start to raise earnings estimates. Prices rise quickly, corrections are short-lived and shallow. Anyone looking to “get in on a pullback” will likely miss the boat. Trading the Wave (3) is usually the most profitable. This will be a muti-year rally!
In Conclusion:
The new year of 2017 will not be a good one for global economies. There will be a big slowdown throughout the global economies. The equity markets, as well, will be extremely negative in 2017. The next yearly closing should be at a low level. The low of 2016,1800 in SPX, may be breached. The analysis is trying to say yes! Be prepared to exit your long stock positions at the midpoint of 2017 and enter “safe havens”. See my gold forecast – Click Here
Bonds should start to rise and hold up through 2017. But will only rally in a big way once there is a major global event/crisis or the later stages of a bear market in US equities. Either way, likely not going to happen till late 2017 or beyond.
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Chris Vermeulen
AAPL shares have been in free fall mode all October spooking investors with a $120 drop from the all-time high in September. As well all know, though it’s hard to follow without a proven trading strategy to keep us focused but the key is that you must buy when others are selling and then sell when everyone is buying.
Apple shares really have helped in holding the overall stock market up in the past but recently it has been a big drag on the broad market. Taking a look at the chart below you can see my analysis and thoughts of this giant.
The red horizontal line shows the key level where high volume traded in the past. For the market to reset (flush out investors/traders) it must shake as many longs out before it can start rising again. By the price breaking below that level which also happens to be a Century Number $600, most of the stops were placed down around this level. The volume spike of 40,000,000 shares clearly shows it triggered stops once that $600 level was broken. We want stops run because it give more power to the next rally/bounce.
NASDAQ Index:
The NASDAQ has formed a similar chart pattern and is heavily weighted with AAPL shares. Trading NQ futures, QQQ, QLD or the XLK exchange traded fund as a much more affordable way to play a bounce/rally in the coming weeks.
Russell 2000 Index:
I really like the Russell 2000 index because small cap stocks can rally hard and fast outperforming the large caps like AAPL, SP500, NASDAQ and DOW. This index is looking ripe for a bounce in the coming days which could trigger the next major rally to new highs. You can plan this index through TF futures contract, IWM, TNA, UWM exchange traded funds.
Trading Conclusion:
While this setup looks very promising because the election is almost over and the Santa Clause rally is just around the corner. Know that some of the biggest drops in the market happens during times when the market is running the stops. It is a natural tendency to take big positions which things look great, but that is not how you do it… Take calculated position sizes knowing indexes could fall another 2-3% before putting in a real washout bottom.
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Chris Vermeulen