$BTCUSD: Daily trend is now up again potentially....This means we have a chance of triggering a 2 week timeframe uptrend signal if price breaks over 53k ish before Jan 3rd. The 2 month timeframe trend, which has historically drove $BTCUSD's main cycle suggests the market is bullish until May 2022, and the current juncture allows for a move up to confirm, which would last until mid May give or take. This is a good confluence of short, mid and long term timeframes, paired with a low risk technical entry to rejoin the trend. Definitely worth a shot, since the minimum upside we get is a move to 58.3k by Jan 1st, which in itself is a trade with over 5 to 1 reward to risk. A move under 47k would nullify this theory and suggest the scenario where price grinds down towards 21k is in the cards...
There's additional support from the yield curve slightly steepening as of late, with 10 year yields looking ready to climb back up, and Crude oil bottoming potentially, same as equities overall. Manchin negotiating is a different thing than altogether rejecting the Build Back Better plan, which was what the market was pricing in. Omicron being a mild disease for the vaccinated, and the US not closing schools of businesses is a lot less worse than what the market feared too. Perhaps this recent weakness was merely rolling of options and hedges forward into the future, as we had a huge amount of options and futures expirations last Friday, which sent shockwaves across markets even into Monday's price action. With that out of the way, the market caught a bid, and liquidity started to return. Seeing $VIX move lower under 20.49 next would be extra positive.
Keep an eye out for my Twitter updates, as I post content there regularly, more often than publications themselves. I'll try to update this one as we go forward while the trade is valid.
Cheers,
Ivan Labrie.
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$EURJPY: Daily uptrend once again...Seems like yields have bottomed in the US, we got a shot at a reflationary/reopening move thanks to the recent wave of news surrounding Omicron and the $PFE/$MRK pills, together with a nice sentiment reset for the past month across the board. I'd suggest going long XXXJPY here, I'm in $GBPJPY and $EURJPY personally, but $AUDJPY also has a nice signal as well and historically correlates equities, in particular in periods like what could unfold next.
Best of luck,
Ivan Labrie.
#OIL: Monthly trend active...daily trend is downThe daily down trend signal that triggered today indicates we might get a retracement in the existing monthly uptrend in $WTICOUSD. Oil futures would be a great buy once the current fall slows down and reverses, so I'll keep my eyes wide open waiting for cues to go long into monthly support (see the green arc area).
Upside over the long term is huge, so, it is of paramount importance to rejoin this trend when safe.
Best of luck!
Cheers,
Ivan.
$UPST: Long way down...I think $UPST is poised to fall hard from here, for a good while, back to the start of the crazy uptrend we had since August 2021. I've personally managed to capture a great upside trade, and now moved into speculating on the downside here...I've shared these with my signals service clients in real time, and also commented on it in the Key Hidden Levels chatroom here.
There's a chance the company's business model is fraudulent, and it had an unbelievably crazy upside move recently, which strikes me as a bubble that is bursting. I am not seeing a rational way to justify the valuation it commands and it has a weak to non existent moat when compared against $SOFI or other lenders...Using AI as a buzzword isn't a good enough reason. Their default rates could end up being much worse than they anticipate based on their models too.
Anyways, from a technical perspective, this is a good chance to short the stock given that the weekly uptrend signal that predicted the rally the stock had has expired, and it implies a potential move back down to the start of the trend if weakness ensues. Best of luck!
Cheers,
Ivan Labrie.
$ZB_F: Uptrend signal activeWe now have a good signal here indicating bonds can rally substantially in the coming weeks. I've bot a bull call spread to capture the upside here, expiring on Dec 10th, for the March contract.
It allows me to fine tune risk and maximize gains if the trade works in a way that an outright futures long position wouldn't. If you can, join on Monday on dips, if making a higher high, be ready to pay up. It's a good hedge for your portfolio in case of carrying long oil positions like I do.
Cheers,
Ivan.
$BIIB: Update, get long!I think it warrants making a new publication here, $BIIB has flashed a buy signal with tremendously good reward to risk, as it can resume the long term trend that can take it over $1600-2600 over time. Phase 3 clinical trials have gone really well for their Alzheimer's treatment 'Aduhelm', putting it in line with results obtained by $LLY's drug 'Donanemab'. I was long $LLY and have been trading in and out of $BIIB trying to time the end of the long slide since the FDA approval news came out. I think the time is now, to get in and sit tight. I've banked my $LLY exposure, but both companies will likely do well with their Alzheimer's treatments going forward and have solid trends, but the reward to risk favors $BIIB, so I'm only long Biogen currently.
Best of luck!
Cheers,
Ivan.
$FB: Long here...I think we now have a decent setup in the company formerly known as Facebook. There were some sick runs in the $META etf and names like $RBLX, $NVDA, $U, gaming/metaverse related cryptocurrencies, etc.
Some of that money can go back into $FB here, which hasn't moved as much, and has a nice base showing accumulation by smart players. Long term, the chart is still in an active quarterly timeframe trend, so there's plenty of time and upside left in the stock. Daily offers a good reward to risk entry to join that trend. If price holds up from here and doesn't breach the area below $330, we can expect a rather steady climb from here.
Best of luck!
Cheers,
Ivan.
$GBPUSD: Upside to 1.3875...The Pound has triggered a bottom signal, in both the daily and weekly timeframe, right after seeing the 1st rate hike across developed nations since the Pandemic started. Weekly charts point to a rally towards 1.3875 within the next 11 weeks, and the daily chart has a buy signal right here. I'm long with a stop below 1.31625, aiming to capture the weekly move here, if possible. Don't risk over 1% in the position, I'd say. Calculate the sizing carefully. Risk management is key to stay in the game until we strike gold with a good trade.
Cheers,
Ivan Labrie.
WKHS: Interesting monthly signal and solid fundamentalsI am interested in $WKHS here, been eyeing it for ages since @timwest brought it up long ago. There's now an active long term uptrend at play here, which may result in a very profitable trading enviroment, if it pans out. You could milk this trend and the key levels in the stock with various methods, using T@M and Key Hidden Levels techniques.
Keep an eye on this one, lately $TSLA and $NKLA have caught everyone's attention, it will certainly drive interest towards $WKHS going forward. They have $GM backing them, and some deals with USPS and UPS up their sleeves. Small company, but certainly interesting.
If the market peaked, we might see it slide back down to support, so keep in mind this bearish scenario. I doubt it will go much lower than that if it does drop.
Cheers,
Ivan Labrie.
EURAUD: Nice long setupLooks like we have a 2.61R potential trade in the Euro vs the Aussie dollar here. I'm long, thinking it can easily hit the target zone, considering that the $EURUSD down trend signal in the daily chart has panned out, $DXY hit the weekly target, and timing for a daily move in $EURUSD has elapsed, implying a possible mean reversion or reversal move in that pair. $AUDUSD is acting weak, and the ratio shows a good reward to risk high probability Time@Mode setup.
Seems like an easy win.
Best of luck!
Cheers,
Ivan.
$OXY: Monthly signal in oil active...I scooped some long term OTM calls here, gives me 10.5% notional exposure to oil via $OXY, risking 1% of my portfolio if the trade fails.
Seems like a good way to be exposed to the big and steady trend in oil, I have already banked my other energy positions and oil futures options, this is a good way to stay exposed with minimal risk (since the weekly oil target was already reached, but monthly has a lot of room and time to go)
Cheers!
Best of luck,
Ivan.
Soybeans: Close to a buy signal once again...The last time we had a perfect storm situation to buy grains, we had a monster rally in both corn and beans. We are now in a similar situation, with the recent surge in Nat Gas affecting fertilizer prices. Weather in Brazil is problematic and China is struggling to produce grains locally...We are once again nearing a situation where reward to risk for buying into grains is tremendous. I'm long Corn futures already for a couple days and waiting for the daily chart to trigger a technical buy signal in Nov Beans to go long as well.
The last weekly signal expires by next week, as a failure, price hit really oversold levels and reached monthly support (see green shaded area). Implications are a retest of the weekly down trend mode (as shown by the arrow on chart), at least, which can then evolve into a new weekly uptrend, once the daily trend turns up. And potentially trigger a new monthly signal similar to the one we had before...This is an interesting juncture to enter long term positions in grain futures.
Cheers,
Ivan Labrie.
BIIB: Biogen, low risk long term buyReward to risk long term in $BIIB is very attractive here. I've gone long via a calendar spread before the latest FDA approval news, which turned out like a good long position when Biogen's Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm received accelerated approval. Following this, related companies which also have Alzheimer's drugs pending approval (like $LLY) received a dramatic boost. In the case of $LLY, their drug was approved as well a few days later. Both charts are very strong in the long term, showing signs of yearly uptrends present, indicating a multi year rally in these stocks is possible.
Accelerated approval means that the FDA approves the drug due to the possibility that it may provide therapeutic benefit to patients even though there is some uncertainty about the drug’s clinical benefit.
Aduhelm is the first therapy approved for Alzheimer’s disease that is directed at the underlying pathology itself (the presence of amyloid beta plaques in the brain). The clinical trials were the first to show that a reduction in these plaques is expected to lead to a reduction in the clinical decline of this form of dementia.
There is a lot of debate regarding the drug's price tag, as well as the clinical benefit it may or not provide, but I think it's a reasonable bet to make here, from a technical and fundamental standpoint. Valuation wise, the company has very low long term debt to equity, high free cash flow yield and a high earnings yield (trailing twelve months), earnings growth has been negative in the last year, but positive in the previous five years. There is a lot at stake with Aduhelm's potential success, so, don't risk more than you can afford to lose, consider that the yearly uptrend is invalid if price moves below 243.58 to define your position sizing based on your risk appetite.
Cheers,
Ivan Labrie.
$TTD: Long term trend active...$TTD offers a tremendous trade opportunity here, after barely missing a long term support level which would have been a good long term entry to join the trend and reacting to it, I think it's worth it to pay up and jump into it ASAP. If price were to dip into support, you may add to your position, but it isn't worth depending on limit orders that might never get filled to enter.
As long as price holds over $75, the setup here is likely to pan out between now and August 2022.
Best of luck!
Cheers,
Ivan.
$USDCAD: Lagging oil...I plotted inverse oil here vs $USDCAD, it seems there's a nice opportunity for a big short to close that spread. I'm long $CADJPY and short $USDCAD from earlier today, now made some time to post the weekly signal in $USDCAD, which is cooking here. If price breaks 1.24603, a weekly down trend with a target @ 1.16536 will be active, predicting a 18 week decline is setting up. Stop loss for this setup should be a bit above the light red horizontal line on chart.
Best of luck,
Cheers.
Ivan.
$NZDUSD: Short setup in the dailyAlways keen on having some uncorrelated trades to generate returns with potentially...I'm short the Kiwi dollar here, worth a punt as it might erase the recent multi week advance next as it remains range bound for the most part. The $NZDCNH and $JPYCNH pairs are reversing, coinciding with weakness in $USDJPY, $EURJPY, $AUDJPY, $NZDJPY, $AUDUSD and $NZDUSD. There's a chance that the recent moves in currencies are reversed overall.
Best of luck!
Cheers,
Ivan.
$EURUSD: Bottom spotted...I think we are seeing the start of a big rally in the Euro here. I'm long from around here, with a stop a bit below the daily mode on chart (yellow box).
Holding period can be quite long, depending on how signals form on the way up, I'd suggest to let it ride if not stopped out, as it can be a big move.
Best of luck!
Cheers,
Ivan Labrie.
#OIL: Huge uptrend potential in oil hereI think we are ready for the next big rally in oil, this will cause a dramatic effect on inflation and affect earnings negatively going forward long term. I think it could reach as high as over $100 a barrel by mid August here. If so, the impact on the economy would be very large, with a delay of 6 months according to research by my mentor, @timwest
With the Iran deal on the horizon, and the recent turn of events in the OPEC meeting, supply is going to be lower than demand and the US might be at risk of losing their energy independence that Trump had achieved during his tenure (also of note is the recent ESG activist shareholder movement, really concerning for the future of investment in increasing supply to meet demand from shale companies in the US).
Consider the return to normal in air travel as a factor here as well, no one is really prepared for a move like this, and most media talking heads are repeating like parrots that inflation will be transitory, as if they were under the govt's payroll. Nasty turn of events indeed, but a good opportunity for those long value and commodities.
Cheers,
Ivan Labrie.
$BABA: It's time, load up the truck...I think $BABA likely bottoms around here, the 14 week down trend signal that predicted this decline reached its final week and price will gap down into long term support from the all time 25% speed line for the whole advance from the bottom to the top. Sentiment had reached critical levels for equities last week already, and there's a path out of this mess with Evergrande possibly under control and most investors liquidated out of this stock, reaching lows not seen since 2019. Valuation is interesting now, so, it seems like a good play to try and knife catch this one. I once tried with the $KWEB etf which had completed a similar down trend recently, which led to a rapid rebound rally but that rally was faded after I took profits, and prices retraced back near the bottom on the back $BABA's continued weakness.
The time is likely now, to try and fade this largely hyped fall, after most people trying to catch the bottom gave up already. Let's roll!
I risk 1 average true range down, below this support level here, I will then monitor daily charts for a bullish trend signal after basing, to accumulate more shares and trail my stop loss higher.
Cheers,
Ivan Labrie.
$EURJPY: The Euro looks strong here, nice setup$EURJPY looks like a good low risk long setup here, any dip after the market opens is a buy, aim for a 6 day rally, as long as above the yellow box on chart. After that happens, we could get further bullish consolidations and more trend setups, so it is a good idea to catch the first signal reversing a down trend here. Increases the odds of a large reward to risk longer term trend. This pair is reacting positively to rising yields in the US, and rising inflation expectations as shown in the 10 year break even inflation chart. Totally worth a shot, together with $AUDJPY and $CADJPY, $USDJPY is also trending up but not such a high reward to risk compared to these more oversold cross pairs. $CADJPY is more correlated to oil, the BoC is seen as really hawkish as of late, combined with the trend in oil, makes it a strong candidate for a long in various pairs.
Cheers,
Ivan.
$AUDJPY: Potential long signal once againI think we are about to experience a strong reflationary wave once again, we have crypto, commodities, equities, preparing to rally in a big way, and the Aussie-Yen forming a monster base. The setup here is to buy if price breaks out forming a larger range upside move vs the last daily true range (when measured from the last close to the upside). This would get my R.E.Signal indicator to flash a green triangle underneath the daily bar, would mean we are about to start a steady trend from here. We can define risk and set a stop not too far below, which is graphed on chart. The signal might not trigger in the next daily bar, but if it does, the price for entry and stop in this chart would be valid.
I'll update this as the chart takes form. I anticipated fireworks in my previous $SPY publication, alerting of a broad sentiment reset forming, which should prepare us mentally for another huge 'winning' wave.
The last strong trend we had was after the Pfizer vaccine announcement, when we made an absolute killing with value stocks and financials. Now we have the Merck pill announcement, potentially triggering another round of reopening optimism, setting the stage for economic recovery, the first phase of which would be reflation.
Cheers,
Ivan Labrie.
$DOGEUSDT: Long Dogecoin here...I think it is about to make a move, daily and weekly charts are bullish and there's people with profits made in $SHIBUSD and $DWAC who might rotate into it, while the chart looks like it was accumulated strongly for weeks, and now ready to move up for a good while.
Best of luck, if you take the trade, it gets invalidated if prices break below the 0.23 handle...
Cheers,
Ivan.
USDCHF: Potential short signal...We got a nice short setup in the Dollar/Swiss pair, if price hits my sell stop level for today, we will confirm a decline is starting, the Dollar Index is certainly overbought, and slowing down, and pairs like this and the Dollar/Yen look like a potential top in the making, while Gold regains strength, and bonds rebound. Certainly a good reward to risk setup, and might trigger very soon today.
Best of luck!
Cheers,
Ivan.