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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Month End Positioning Underway

Attempting to make sense of the movement in the currency markets in today's session can be very confusing. Case in point? The Euro/Dollar. A report by the OECD, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, warned that tapering of the bond buying programs (monetary easing) by various Central Banks, could result in a slowdown in global growth. It singled out the Euro-Zone as a region that could be most impacted and consequently lowered its forecast for that region's growth.

Normally, that would have been enough to put pressure on the Euro. No so today! Today seems to be a case of large speculators squaring positions ahead of this month's end. Since everyone and their dog has been long the US Dollar and short nearly every other currency on the planet, we are seeing a bit of an unwind occurring which is taking the Dollar lower, especially given the fact that the equity markets are under pressure today. That too might be a case of end-of-the-month position squaring.

Trying to read too much into price action at this time of the month can be rather futile. I am more interested in seeing how things close the week this Friday instead. Nonetheless, if we can any breaches of chart resistance or support levels, no matter what the cause, we could see additional price volatility.

Speaking of price volatility, has anyone seen the Volatility Index lately? Check it out....What I find rather fascinating is that lately, the VIX has actually been moving higher even as the stock market has been making one new lifetime high after another on an almost daily basis. Perhaps, even some of the perma equity bulls are beginning to wonder if this bubble can keep inflating indefinitely!?

5 comments:

  1. Its time for the june gold longs to demand delivery. This bear market phase needs to come to an abrupt end.

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  2. Here comes the Fed Head "Jawbone" to prevent gold from rising any further, and to crush WTIC below $93.

    These guys are simply brilliant with their "Pie-Hole" strategy of managing the world's largest financial market:

    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/feds-rosengren-tapering-may-come-in-few-months-2013-05-29-13912452?siteid=bigcharts&dist=bigcharts

    Looks like "Tapering" is on, despite the fixed income carnage.

    They will deal with that later, once the bears have really piled into bond shorts, then they will turn that market at the most unexpected, inopportune time against the short sellers.

    How easy is that?

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  3. Eventually every delivery will be settled in cash and no one can do d*mm about this. Only complain. Very sad. This is the end game. Settle the whole thing in worthless cash.

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  4. http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2013/05/us-10-year-note-yield-very-long-term.html
    Two charts from Ralph Dillon at Global Financial Data:
    10 yr yield long term and 10 year note yield with S&P 500

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  5. If gold can get above 1540 and stay there, this will have been the greatest con game of all time.

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