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NASDAQ Rips To Fresh 14-Year Highs But Precious Metals Outperform
Silver gained a stunning 7% this week - its biggest week in 6-months - and gold up over 4% as precious metals handily outperformed US equities (despite the latter being bathed in the glory of a media-gloating low-volume melt-up). Nasdaq is now up 1.7% on the year and broke to new highs not seen since Dec 2000. There was a clear effort to get the more critical S&P 500 to unch in 2014 but it failed - despite slamming VIX to 13.5% (and STVIX to record lows). High-beta Nasdaq and Russell outperformed on the week and Trannies lagged. The USD drifted lower from Wednesday with GBP (+2%, best week in 8mo.) and EUR strength the biggest drivers but notably equities disconnected from JPY carry after 1030ET. Treasury yields slid higher today and ended the week 2bp (30Y) to 6bps (5Y and 10Y) on the week. Healthcare and Utilities are the massive outperfomers in stocks in 2014 - that must be good right?
Silver (and Gold) ripped higher on the week...
Silver now tops gold in 2014...
But the headlines will be made by the screamfest higher in US equities (even though they underperformed PMs)...
This chart perhaps sums up the market conviction - the lower pane is volume above/below average - not exactly 'piling back in' are they...
Healthcare and Utilities have led 2014... not exactly confidence-inspiring...
JPY carry has lost its mojo...
and so have bonds as it seems gold and stocks are best friends...
And VIX decoupled this afternoon...
And bonds weakened on the day - end up 2-6bps on the week...
The USD has slid 0.8% in thelast 2 days as EUR weakness gave way and strengthened along with GBP after Carney's comments... this is the best week for GBP isn 8 months and highest since Nov 09
Charts: Bloomberg
Bonus Chart: Emerging Markets are unfixed...
Bonus Bonus Chart: S&P 500 Futures trend reversion...
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One of the statistics I follow is the Average Trade Size (ATS) for a number of stocks & futures. I track ATS on a 1 minute basis for ES, the Mini-S&P-500 futures. Today at 14:26 the indicator hit a record of 22. This number is the highest value on my chart, which has the last 200 days (at a 1 minute interval). This value of 22 is higher than every open & close, where you normally see higher readings. On a 30 second basis, you can actually see two spikes; one at 14:26 and the other at 11:50. These spike occurred just prior to the intra-day top in ES.
Either some one is BTFATH, OR... they used this rally to lighten up their position.
This "market" is going to burn!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiDSojOxqiE
WOW! THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!!
Now those who bought in 2000 are down only 15% over the last 14 years...
I love shiny glittery rehypothicated paper gold. (sarc)
Excellent. Also did anythig happen at 9:50 ? Because as @Flacon pointed out , the SPY went Algo crazy up and down. And the last time when this happened on a bigger scale, it portended a Coming Crash.
Well, I'm sure a few more bankers will be suicided by this weekend and into next week. Those will be known as the "Anti-Bonus" employees.
You know, kind of like a "Claw-back" clause.
Oh no. What does this mean? I just sold all my muni bonds and bought Tesla, Priceline and Tweeter. My broker said they are much safer.
If a fake market falls and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Maybe this thing is dead on it's feet with only the machines and the poor passive saps in 401k and pensions left? Like someone yanking on the puppet strings and saying "See! See! everything is ok!" The whole volume thing makes it seem that way anyway.
The PBOC consciously does not want to disturb the gold markets when they buy but are under serious internal pressure to buy all they can.
http://www.ingoldwetrust.ch/guest-post-thoughts-behind-pboc-gold-purchas...
surprise, surprise, who coulda knowd?
this guy, 12 hours ago: Fri, 02/14/2014 - 04:32 | 4435760
"thank you for your cooperation"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6VdWzYVJmE
Yes, yes, keep printing motherfuckers, keep printing.
I posted this on the VIX thread at 3:06 PM: "We just saw the top. They might be able to hold it into the close, but look out below. They got everyone into this sucker the could"
I got it within a minute. Almost perfect double tops on Nas and S$P. negative divergences everywhere. Massive head and shoulders formed on Dow after 61% retracement. Bat pattern on the S&P. should get really ugly next week
See you next week when we print 1900 in the ES
I've been riding it all the way up. But now the ride truly has ended, at least through the summer
nice...
find me a catalyst for this mythical "should get really ugly next week" and I'll say 'meh' nothing that can't be papered over with some liquidity. only a fool would short this market, smart traders wait for the 5% pull back, get long to the peak (8 pts from ATH SPX?), then liquidiate. rinse and repeat. has been working for literally 2 years now.
as the stats show, all you have to do is be in the market for the biggest rallies and you capture the vast majority of long term returns.
Oh, is that all?
we can discuss the merits of different trading strategies during non-QE intervals at length when QE ends... which is to say, we'll probably never discuss the merits of different trading strategies outside of some form of QE. within its given context, why would you question a method if it works without caveat?
The decline starts before the catalyst, just as it did in 2000 and 2008. You won't hear about the catalyst until its already down 5-10%. How about one of these - an EM blowing up and setting off a derivatives domino game, the US falling into a recession that the Fed reacts too late to, The Nikkei plunging as it becomes more apparent that Abenomics has failed, etc...
Trust me, you are preaching to the choir. Most here are exhausted from years of signals of emminent doom, but alas, it hasn't happened and as long as every aspect of the markets are manipulated, a crash isn't going to happen...
"You won't hear about the catalyst..." You mean YOU and JoeSixpack won't hear about the catalyst. Asymmetric information can be painful when you're not plugged into the global information network 24/7. i'd like to think that if a butterfly in Brazil flapped its wings out of synch with its brethren, it wouldn't be long before i found out.
You don't have to short with margin when you've got HVU or UVXY.
You need very little $ and given what's coming http://flic.kr/p/enJ7Cs you'd be a fool NOT to profit from the down-move coming.
HVU = (217 / SPY ) 11
so when SPY = 80, HVU = 58,488.06
unless you like margin calls, then by all means, go short on margin, get a margin call before realizing the best sell-price & lose all your money, play right into the hands of the banksters who SEE your margin account & know what you can't afford to lose. That's how they get you & NANEX helps show that every day. Suckerz.
Ooh, goody! Technical analysis. My, has that worked so well since March 2009.
Tell me - what technical analysis pointed to a nearly 1200-point run for the S&P back in March 2009? I'd like to see THAT chart. As a bonus, of course.
Well, I trade the Nasdaq, which has now put in an almost perfect 78% retracement of the plunge from top in 2001 to the low in 2009. That's what you would expect. Thanks for bringing it up as I forgot to mention the longer term stuff.
I'm no pure technician, but the highest flying (momo)names have pretty much followed the most basic TA tenets fo the past couple years....give or take a few miraculous stick saves here and there....Like TA for Dummies.
Our NDX friend is talking Fibs as in Fibonacci aka Leonardo of Pisa born in 1175 AD.
http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibBio.html
As far as many of these momo stocks - you donate to the regime - your stock is supported aka pumped. Facebook is a total farce as is Twitter.
I propose a merger:
ticker FWIT
Company: FWitter
purpose: combine all fuckwittery from every format of sharing, micro-videos, duckface pornstar girls & epicFails across all time & space to one giant fuckwitwall
nothing technical about it. No back-testing, no equations, nothing but opinion.
FWIW Lakeshore Gold up 9% today (T.LSG). GLTAL
FWIW USLV up 13.60% today. http://scharts.co/1jk23Hv
Only $87,715,000,000 in TOMO today.
Price deflation.
dollar deflation (of purchasing power that is)- fixed.
NASDAQ is on fire, perhaps fueled (or lack there of), in some extent by Tesla:
http://www.businessinsider.com/february-1st-toronto-tesla-fire-2014-2
[TSX followed suit but I'm guessing based on more reasonable valuations]
time to start building paper position for 1500, will buy any dip now
"as recovery roars ahead and inflation picks up steam. land prices continue to soar as gas lines lengthen. the vox populii are glad the war effort has finally wound down as everyone agrees now is the time to get back to work on what makes things work...namely the economy.
while yields on cash deposits have been quite high for some time now it is rumored that the Fed will finally start making a move to put an end to scourge of inflation once and for all."
1976?
Right, if that is the case, go ahead, raise interest rates motherfucker. Go ahead, I double dog dare you.
Now that the equity indexes have essentially tripled, with many of the shittiest companies traded being 10, 20 or 30 baggers, on the wave of QEflafion during the last 4 years, amidst an undeniably structurally weakened economy, I'm going to go leveraged long for reasons of pure FOMO.
I'm definitely doing a bull-call spread maximum leverage on Herbalife, just because Icahn finally convinced me that it is a rock solid, inherently awesome company.
1947?
10000 BC?
Screw it. I ordered a bunch of Ag Pandas.
Ag is still on sale.
How is delivery? I heard from a guy I know that bullion and gold have pretty slow delivery.
"When the levy breaks"
Are they trying to wind down the JPY carry trade but keep markets afloat by letting PM (and associated miners) rise, taking profits there and performing unscheduled POMO with the earnings?
I wonder how many times the likes of guys like Eric King over at KWN have creamed themselves today......
Perhaps a little off subject, but I am vexed by the options behavior today. Has anyone ever seen the Dow up over 90 points, while the Nasdaq was down 10 points? What kind of a swindle was being perpetrated.....and by whom?
Was this the first move by the new chairsatanette?
Nasdaq, s&P and Russel are all at resistance, the Dow is playing catch-up.
Aye aye aye, paper price effects phys in the ways mis amigos in the TBTF demand. Phys AU can be sustained below the price of production, and longer than real bad hangover by buying the phys producers outright via Fed shell companies, or by obvious 'gov acquisition'. When enough stragglers decide to board the 'AU UP Train', expect Italy, or one of the PIGS to have their currency spanked. Mira! We'll watch the derelicts flow their capital right back into the US dollar... and watch the price of paper gold, which hasn't disconnected as yet, lick the floor below production cost. Uno mas lashing for the bulls before the run up - which could be years.
Viva El Luchador
markets manipulate
fair price evades detection
silver price moves
behold, an erection!
Double POMO on Tuesday, S&P new all time high, Russel shorts get destroyed above 1150, 0.79 pts. away.
Hmm...let's see...worthless stocks that can be crashed to nothing at will or tangible immutable precious metals...
Koos Jansen: January Chinese Gold Demand All-Time Record, 247 Tons
Koos Jansen reports on continued unprecedented appetite from China for Gold, according to his information, after the unprecedented demand of 2,181 tons of Gold from China in 2013 Chinese Gold demand hits All-Time record of 247 tons in January. Now Gold today's breakout above $1,322 level can be put in another perspective. http://sufiy.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/koos-jansen-january-chinese-gold-dem... Gold Breaks 1,320: The Mother Of Short Squeeze Has Arrived TNR.v MUX GDX GLD SLV RGLD ABX GG
"Gold is sending its Happy Valentines to all Gold Bugs today and breaks $1320 on the massive short squeeze. Gold shorts will have their Blood Friday now. The real reason for this move is the realisation of the groundbreaking shift in the structure of the Gold market with the unprecedented demand of 2,181 tons of Gold from China in 2013. Janet Yellen testimony has opened the possibility To Taper The Taper andJames Rickards is calling for the Taper Pause in June. US dollar is going down very close to 80.00 level again. This level will be protected, but should the US Dollar break down below 80.00 Gold and Silver will go vertical towards $1,500 and $25 respectively.