Dec 10 -16, 2023 FEAR NOT Brave Investors Where have we been and where are we going? Join our weekly market thread on Traders Community… The Week That Was – What Lies Ahead? Contents Click on the links below to navigate to the relevant section. Editorial It was a week of consolidation for the major stock indices as they closed the week with modest gains ahead of quadruple witching next Friday. The S&P 500 closed the week at 4,604 up … Continue reading “Traders Market Weekly: Treasury Debt and Central Bank Balancing Act”
Gold New All Time High Against the U.S. Dollar as Yields Pressure Greenback
Gold, like many assets in the past year has defied traditional valuation. Gold used be known as an inflation hedge, however as yields have fallen as disinflation has featured with CPI and PPI falling globally gold has rallied. This Friday the price of gold hit a record high in US dollars, it has already hit new all times highs in other currencies. For example, it hit a record high in Australian dollars last month. The bet here isa currency bet, … Continue reading “Gold New All Time High Against the U.S. Dollar as Yields Pressure Greenback”
Traders Market Weekly: Algorithms, Jobs and Holiday Markets
Dec 3 -9, 2023 FEAR NOT Brave Investors Where have we been and where are we going? Join our weekly market thread on Traders Community… The Week That Was – What Lies Ahead? Contents Click on the links below to navigate to the relevant section. Editorial The markets continue to roll-on, fueled by carry trade liquidity, short covering in crowded trades as unemotional algorithms dominate emotional human decision making. On Friday the S&P 500 closed at 4,594.6 on Friday, its … Continue reading “Traders Market Weekly: Algorithms, Jobs and Holiday Markets”
Traders Market Weekly: Squeeze Dynamics and Market Fragility
Nov 26 – Dec 2, 2023 FEAR NOT Brave Investors Where have we been and where are we going? Join our weekly market thread on Traders Community… The Week That Was – What Lies Ahead? Contents Click on the links below to navigate to the relevant section. Editorial Markets delivered more of the same in the shortened Thanksgiving week with speculators giving thanks to equities indices as they continued their drive higher as short squeeze dynamics continue to play their … Continue reading “Traders Market Weekly: Squeeze Dynamics and Market Fragility”
Traders Market Weekly: Holiday Shopping Season Kicking Off
Nov 19 -18, 2025 FEAR NOT Brave Investors Where have we been and where are we going? Join our weekly market thread on Traders Community… The Week That Was – What Lies Ahead? Contents Click on the links below to navigate to the relevant section. Editorial Equities continued their drive higher as short squeeze dynamics playing their role. The Goldman Sachs most short index surged 7.2% in Tuesday trading, the largest one-day gain in a year (11/10/22). Indicative of squeeze … Continue reading “Traders Market Weekly: Holiday Shopping Season Kicking Off”
Traders Market Weekly: The Consumer Matters
Nov 12 -18, 2023 FEAR NOT Brave Investors Where have we been and where are we going? Join our weekly market thread on Traders Community… The Week That Was – What Lies Ahead? Contents Click on the links below to navigate to the relevant section. Editorial In another week of violent retribution by the market bulls and bears, bullish one day, bearish the next with reactive patterns. The angst from financial pundits and loss-making trade noise confirms the latter. Through … Continue reading “Traders Market Weekly: The Consumer Matters”
Traders Market Weekly: It’s a Mad World of Bond Auctions and Central Bankers
Nov 5 -11, 2023 FEAR NOT Brave Investors Where have we been and where are we going? Join our weekly market thread on Traders Community… The Week That Was – What Lies Ahead? Contents Click on the links below to navigate to the relevant section. Editorial This time the herd predicted an almighty crash in markets, what actually happened was completely different. The S&P 500 spat back over its 200-day moving average, trapped all those that were beared up because … Continue reading “Traders Market Weekly: It’s a Mad World of Bond Auctions and Central Bankers”
Traders Market Weekly: Central Banks, Debt, Jobs and Apple
Oct 29 – Nov 4, 2023 FEAR NOT Brave Investors Where have we been and where are we going? Join our weekly market thread on Traders Community… The Week That Was – What Lies Ahead? Contents Click on the links below to navigate to the relevant section. Editorial Voracity and volatility across markets ramps continue on stretched positioning, geopolitical powder kegs and multiple catalysts from earnings, data to central bankers and everything in between. The S&P 500 continues to test … Continue reading “Traders Market Weekly: Central Banks, Debt, Jobs and Apple”
Traders Market Weekly: War Drums, Bond Routes, Magnificent Seven Earnings
Oct 22 – 28, 2023 FEAR NOT Brave Investors Where have we been and where are we going? Join our weekly market thread on Traders Community… The Week That Was – What Lies Ahead? Contents Click on the links below to navigate to the relevant section. Editorial Markets are going through a loop of fear and loathing intensified by war, fear and multiple triggers on multiple fronts. Yields are reflecting an inevitable reaction to inflation, growing supply from a government … Continue reading “Traders Market Weekly: War Drums, Bond Routes, Magnificent Seven Earnings”
Traders Market Weekly: War, Rates and Bankers Deliver Chaos
Oct 15 – 21, 2023 FEAR NOT Brave Investors Where have we been and where are we going? Join our weekly market thread on Traders Community… The Week That Was – What Lies Ahead? Contents Click on the links below to navigate to the relevant section. Editorial Geopolitical uncertainty continues to roil markets. We now have two major war fronts with Hamas/Israel joining Ukraine/Russia. The uncertainty there is seeing sharp shifts in commodities from safe havens like gold and commodity … Continue reading “Traders Market Weekly: War, Rates and Bankers Deliver Chaos”