This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.
Tuesday Turmoil? Stocks, Bonds, USDollar, Oil & Gold All Sold
US equity futures started to slide once German confidence data hit early in the morning (and Treasuries rallied modestly) but as the US opened, the ubiquitous "markets are open and I must buy' rip hit... but didn't last. Stocks leaked lower but stopped as Europe closed (in a mirror of yesterday) but could not hold bounce gains as worries over Russia's convoy weighed on markets late on. The S&P and Dow end the day unch (Russell -0.5%, Trannies up 0.6%) on the week. As stocks old off, somewhat oddly, so did the US Dollar (on EUR strength - reptariation?), US Treasuries, gold and copper. 330RAMPCAPITAL turned up (well it is Tuesday), slammed VIX, and jammed stocks (except Russell) back to green (VWAP) but it didn't hold. S&P futures volume was over 40% below average.
Mirror of yesterday as stocks dumped early and stalled at the European close.. but headlines kept coming and pushed markets lower to the end of the day...
Machines were in charge today as normal with VWAP (blue line) resistance all day (suggesting institutional sell orders were waiting)...lower pane shows volumes massively below average this week
We bounced twice off last week's "NATO Threat" levels today...
Treasuries rallied off the German data but once US markets opened, selling began and kept going even as stocks sold off...
FX markets ended with the USD higher but the main action was selling from the German data that appeared all about EUR repatriation and derisking...
Commodities slipped lower overall (even as the USD strengthened) with gold back to unch on the week (and copper worst)
Notably Brent dropped to 2014 lows - dragging Brent-WTI back under $6...
Charts: Bloomberg
Bonus Chart: Ebola-trade favorite Tekmira dumped 20% on the day...
»
- 6831 reads
- Printer-friendly version
- Send to friend
- advertisements -
Trading low-volume summer data-less days can be slightly more enjoyable than a trip to the dentist. Standard moves are “clipped”, turning around before reaching typical targets.
Even so, I did a nice Russell short early then, after waiting nearly 2 hours, missed a 2nd short entry by a penny, but felt technicals were too nondescript to chase after it, ultimately a bad move, but had I done so and held to the close I’d have gotten next to nothing thanks to Mr. 3:30 Ramp-Master.
To the HFT bots who stepped around my TZA order at precisely 12:43 near VWAP I must say, with genuine admiration: “well played” (you inbred, hexadecimal guttersnipes).
heroic! thanks for sharing!
Thanks, but I might have expected a squid of your lineage to use the term "Sisyphean."
The Fed needs to Start Printing up more $ (Again) SOON!
Roll roll roll that debt with the printing press. Scarily, scarily, scarily, life is full of stress.
This market is staggering around like a drunk at the top of
the stairs with the lights off.
Just one more for the road.
And what is the most likely outcome of a drunk staggering at the top of the stairs with the lights off...
If on the street it's hookers and blow. If anywhere else, a quick fall into the oblivion.
Lefty talker: moar police shootings, please!
http://tinyurl.com/l2v74ds
Is it normal for Elliot Wave analysts to be calling for a primary wave degree slump of Gold to sub 1000USD? WTF?
Elliot wave analyst........ Lol. Shouldn't we have the completed wave five down by now?
Yes, according to them and that was a few weeks ago but then the wave count changed? Massive crater coming, majestic slump. Boom! Kaplow!
/sarc
Elliot Wave ... o_O
that depends which elliot wave analyst you ask. ask 100 of them and you will get 100 different answers. elliot wave theory is the higher form of interpreting goat intestines.
The third of a third of a third has been coming for 5 years now. Bastards.
Probably they have to let some air out to patch the bubble before inflating it bigger tomorrow.
anybody remember CB radio - 10-4 good buddy, see you in Donetsk
"Get back in there and turn those machines on. It's Tuesday for crying out loud." - Mother Yellin
King Digital, of Candy Crush fame, off 25% after hours.
I once had a crush on Kandy.........wait, maybe you're not talking about that crush.
When I lived in England (way long ago, impetuous alcohol fueled young man) Princess Anne was up for attachment. Aside from the fact that I'd never met her, although had seen her once along The Mall whilst riding with some of the royal family parade... I do not "clearly" remember... I felt that it would have been appropriate for us to get hitched. After all, a young drunken Yank would likely have been shipped off up North direction to say a nice castle in Scotland with just enough folks in attendance to keep me fed, house, washed and clothed so as not to be gallivanting, stumbling about in drunken stupors, embarrassing the Royals in public. Figured it would have been a great life, sponging off of the Queen and family. Had visions of strutting about in the grouse with a shotgun, scaring the local pheasant in a kilt and storm trooper's blouse.... Ah, those were the days, long nights at the Scotch of St James... nudity in Regent's Park.... Insanity...
Nice to see you never recovered. :-)
My wife used to compete against Anne on the three day event circuit, before she married
Mark Philips.They were pretty pally off the course back then.
That girl could swear worse than a fishmongers wife. All is not as it appears.
You would have had a surprise.
Can't blame her for the swearing.
I lived in Australia from 1986-2010, and saw a lot of English tv comedy 1970s re-runs that have never seen the light of day in the US.
The number of times her face was compared to a horse was uncountable.
Wait, we are talking about Kerry right? ;-)
No bloodline.
Knacker fodder.
A market only Dr. Pangloss could love!
Cocksucker Johnny 5 wouldn't even let ES enter my 1890-1905 on Thursday he just had to blast it from a cunt hair below 1905. But . . . . . . . . not so sure that last move underway juuuuuussssttttt yet we may be testing that zone for real. Unless it plunges through still leaning heavily to the final BTFMOMODONKEYNUTSJERKOFFBLOWOFFTOP from there and then the race to the bottom of the megaphone.
Big "BTFD DAX" article in Handelsblatt couple days ago
Who is Elliot? Why is he making so many waves?
"Gold standard." Move along...