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BofAML: EUR Has Topped And Gold Will Surprise To The Upside
EURUSD has topped out, BofAML's Macneil Curry notes, as the break of 1.3548 confirmed a bearish turn in the medium-term trend, targeting 18-month trendline support at 1.3144. Furthermore, Curry warns, longer-term charts suggest this could be the start of something significantly more bearish - targeting the 200-month average at 1.2187. Despite this USD strength, Curry adds, gold remains curiously bid and could squeeze to $1,399.
Via BofAML's Macneil Curry,
€/$ breakdown
€/$ broke down sharply Friday, closing through key support at 1.3564/ 1.3548 (100d avg and Jan-09 low) and confirming a near term, potentially medium term, turn in trend. We have gone short on the break of 1.3548, targeting 18m trendline support at 1.3144. However, long term charts warn that this turn could be the start of something significantly more bearish, targeting the 200m avg at 1.2187. While more needs to be seen before we can make this call with confidence (a break of the 1.3295 Nov-07 low would increase our confidence), long term interest rate spreads support this scenario. Indeed, the US-GER 10yr spread continues on its well defined widening spread towards 132bps.
€/$ begins its downtrend
€/$ is breaking down. The impulsive decline from 1.3893 and subsequent break of the 100d avg says the trend has turned bearish. The initial target is the 200d avg at 1.3349, but this should be only temporary support before the 18m t/line at 1.3144.
Weekly charts warns that this is the start of something more
A bigger picture view of €/$ warns that this most recent turn lower (from the Dec-27 high of 1.3893) could be the beginning of a much larger bear trend towards the 200m at 1.2187. To be clear, more needs to be seen (like a close below the 1.3295 Nov-07 low) before we can make this call with confidence, but the potential is there
US-GER 10yr Spread supports a lower €/$
The US-GER 10yr Spread continues on its well defined, long term widening trend. The break of long term channel resistance, coupled with the Head and Shoulders Base targets 124bps/132ps and potentially beyond. This is €/$ bearish
Gold squeeze
Despite the recent strength of the US $, precious metals remain very well supported. Last week we highlighted the bullish potential for Silver, now Gold looks poised to surprise to the topside. A break of the 1270 pivot should be the catalyst for short squeeze higher, exposing the confluence of resistance between 1362/1399
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Sorry this is a Gold post. My comment was on Bitcoin. I get the two confused.
It is NY not Congress that are holding upcoming hearings.
Officials will hold a public hearing Jan. 28 and Jan. 29 at which investors, law enforcement officials and computer engineers will provide insight into virtual currencies. One of the aims is to determine whether businesses accepting or transferring bitcoin should be licensed, which is required of wire transfer services.
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
There has been a barrage of gold articles lately all pointing to the upside. From a cynical viewpoint, it seems that either the wise guys have loaded the truck slowly and will be pushing hard upwards or they are setting up everyone for the biggest smack-down ever.
Tell me it's the first and not the latter.
I am staying with the physical already at the bottom of the lake no matter what happens
Sorry this is a Gold post. My comment was on Bitcoin. I get the two confused.
I got lost on the way to the Beanie Baby convention.
Damn, looks like we are not going to Hollywood.
I thought we were a lock.....but who knew the gimp could sing so damn good?
The banks are amazing at the timing of their releases....smash commencing as we speak
Even though I posted above about a smackdown or a tear, it's still early to tell. Meanwhile maybe just maybe I can add coins
OoK,
seems there will be a run up of gold while btc enters its new mulipulated floor price stage (coinbase gotta sell the idea its a currency afterall)
so look for gold to run up to $1600 this year from what I see.. bitcoin will have to wait till wall street is ready for the big btc fund push so buying on any dips under $800 is pretty wise there
Gold and silver tumble by the most in a month. Blame it on "fixing" the London gold fix. To put it another way, the fix ix in.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/gold-and-silver-tumble-most-month
@Stackers - That is one priceless line.
YOUAR CONFUSED STILL ?SS? sssnoob tard
"[T]here have been a few instances of “forks,” moments when part of the network accepted one new block as valid while another part rejected it and accepted a different block.
These incidents happened for accidental reasons, but a fork could someday be the result of malicious action. It is generally thought that it would be too expensive for a single malicious user (or group of malicious users) to take over more than half of the network; but if bitcoin were to grow significantly in value, this calculation could change."http://www.chicagofed.org/digital_assets/publications/chicago_fed_letter...
"The aggregate operating cost of the mining pool is what protects the bitcoin system from an attack (it becomes vulnerable if someone controls >50% of mining resources).
However, unfortunately this is not the case in the actual implementation, and this is a well known vulnerability of the system. Once the mining profits will drop significantly (in about 5-10 years) there will be less miners protecting the system, and it will be more vulnerable to attacks."http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/04/03/1446692/when-memory-becomes-money-...
"Two computer science researchers from Cornell find that this extensive ecosystem can be undermined and they outline how in a paper that they have posted on arXiv.
The paper, "Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable," is by Ittay Eyal, a post doc member of the Computer Sciences department at Cornell and Emin Gun Sirer, associate professor at Cornell.According to the two researchers, "Empirical evidence shows that Bitcoin miners behave strategically and form pools.
“Specifically, because rewards are distributed at infrequent, random intervals miners form mining pools in order to decrease the variance of their income rate.
Within such pools, all members contribute to the solution of each cryptopuzzle, and share the rewards proportionally to their contributions. To the best of our knowledge, so far such pools have been benign and followed the protocol."
The authors wrote that central to Bitcoin operations is a public log called the blockchain where all transactions are recorded. The security of the blockchain is established by a chain of cryptographic puzzles solved by a loosely organized network of participants called miners.
The two researchers present an attack with which colluding miners obtain a revenue larger than their fair share.
'This attack can have significant consequences for Bitcoin," they warned, where rational miners join selfish miners and the colluding group increases in size until it becomes a majority. At this point, they said, the Bitcoin system ceases to be a decentralized currency.'"
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-cornell-bitcoin-lesson-selfish.html
FUCK OFF
Here comes fonestar in 3,2,1.....
Edit: Nope, he must have gone to bed early with his Bitcoin records.
ok so let's entertain that it does get decentralized.... so at worst it becomes the hell we already have?
shudder..I guess we should die now since we all are gonna die anyway
That's okay cause I still up voted ya.
Squeeze but don't "clinch".
Clinch is for fighters
You mean Clench
as in azzhole.
I think gold is going higher as well. The next hurdle is the 100 day avg. @ 1284.
XAU daily chart
Looking at the 4-h xau chart you can see the August '13 high(1433) trendline runs right across the top of this current 1180-1267 range.
If gold holds $1400, it's off to the races...
Yeah, 1400.00 is where the fun begins!
1400 is where I dump my losing 2013 longs
Try to get physical now. It feels better and you may even lose some weight.
so that I could lock my equity, pay premium and depend on market price? nah..
I don't like the double bottom premise since the second bottom is on much lighter volume then the first. I'd rather wait for a long term down trend line to be broken or see a panic to or below the 1000 level with run-for-the-hills headlines.
Technical analysis is no longer meaningful in this environment, regardless of the fact that I might like the message.
technical analysis has never been meaningful.
Think of "technical analysis" as an afterthought that makes you second guess yourself.
Similar to having amnesia and Déjà vu at the same time.
"technical analysis" is hard when they print about a trillion dollars a year in QE.....cause who the hell knows where that is going.
I'm guessing it's going to prop up equities and suppress precious metal.....but it's just a guess.
Technical analysis is still useful if you realize that the manipulators use it for smack down.
Technical analysis is always drenched in emotion. This technical analists always deny, which is just another emotion.
Seek, I see your point but TA is still good. Just realise how the boys play the game, they KNOW how most people use TA so attempt to fuck them up. So when they're playing their games look to go with them, ie when they get eveyone in, the then get everyone out - that's the time to go with the boys. USE THEM like they're using everyone else.
i have to agree with the double bottom in gold standpoint, simply because this confirms that trade in options on derivatives have kept prices within a 'volatility smile' configuration.
http://scharts.co/1awbFwy
Do you have another link related to what this is: "trade in options on derivatives have kept prices within a 'volatility smile.'"
I'm not familiar with it and don't see it in the link you provided. Thanks.
If you didn't see a gold price chart with annotations in elliot wave and a clearly outlined volatility smile, then you need an account with stockcharts.com
All options on derivatives traded on the Euronext expire a couple of days before options expiry and a week before precious metals options expiry.
Remember that bullion is considered forex in terms of derivatives.
There is little time to reel in the sell-side, who are heavily hooked into the line, since expiry of the derivative in vogue (the volatility smile) is within a few months.
http://ectrie.nl/met/pdf/MET11-2-6.pdf
that was easy , now I get it !
Surprise to the upside? Surprise to who you cocksuckers.
Remind me again: what was it about that 5-wave bounce from the October low around 1250 that BoA called the start of a big advance?
My charts tell me that when China doesn't get their gold it's game over.
In physical gold, it's the Arabs that get or "it's game over" for important oil flows (bear in mind China is a larger consumer, for now and SA knows debt laden economies won't be the VIP customer they once were, now Chinese politics matter), and Chinese buyers just bid up gold on the margin, both for internal use, and re-export westward into India through market channels.
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Exter's coins
Damn, I though at first the title was Bank of America has topped; shit is up nearly 400% in the past two years.
gold remains curiously bid? i thought these people studied the COT and a myriad of other sources which would obviate the necessity of such useless, meaningless conjectures. anyone with half a brain...
But don't you really feel bad for all the born again wackos in CO who moved there to be in gods country,? Now they have gay marriage and legal weed, LOLOLOLOL. Oops wrong article
4am dump calling with with 75,000 contracts'
$1170 "Take Down"
How do you do TA on a printing press?
In physical gold, it's the Arabs that get or "it's game over" for important oil flows (bear in mind China is http://www.sydneyleather.com.au a larger consumer, for now and SA knows debt laden economies won't be the VIP customer they once were, now Chinese politics matter), and Chinese buyers just bid up gold on the margin, both for internal use, and re-export westward into India through market channels.
Need to see a close below 1.34 in the Euro to confirm bear trend.
http://bullandbearmash.com/chart/euro-weekly-rolls-week-push-higher-clos...
If this becomes the case, the USD will skyrocket and US market indexes should finally head down.
What part of Gold SIDEWAYS market does ZH not get, or -- more precisely -- refuses to get?
Wake me up when TPTB have "caved" and gold is above $1800.
Harry Dent on Coast to Coast tonight saying some interesting things.
Demographic trends for sure, think he is on the button; but he is bullish the dollar and bearish Gold.
He seems to think the fiat system will survive another round and going "diversified" is safe, or going to cash and buying shit the next dump; dunno if I agree (okay, I don't).
wha??
DEAD WRONG ON EURUSD... IMHO...
Quitting QE before gold supplies finish has always been the gamble. I bet huge amounts the Fed loses - in physical of course!
If you want to know where gold is headed just look in the opposite direction of where the world is headed.
So if we get big upside moves in gold this would make India the richest country because of their massive tonnage ownership.
yeah, India rich... do tell
SHORT THE EURO. Deflation in Europe. No one is buying anything and they don't plan to buy anything either.