ridethepig | SHCOMP for the Yearly Close📌 Another round of updates for the Yearly close on the MT and LT maps, sellers may still be in control but buyers are flirting with that breakup. This will occupy the battlefield and unlock a test of 4,500 for 2021.
What is wrong with the bull case is exhausting to list; the exchange of capital from public to private assets is developing sooner than I expected. After Trump lost it is opening the window and front door for capital outflows. I am not interested in personalities with politics, when you have been in this business for too long you either understand or learn to never trust politicians on either side. Biden implementing the typical "vote me in and i'll get the guy who caused this" manoeuvre is carrots on a stick. Economic cycles are more powerful than politics.
As we have seen, monetary policy has been employed and constitutes an excellent weapon for this 'reset'. After PBOC 'whatever it takes' moment, we managed to trade more or less to the tick on the lows as the exchange was easy to track:
Now once we approached the highs we began to track for signs of a possible top.
On the one hand, the ABC is very strong and must absolutely continue holding for sellers to have a valid setup. However, an immediate attack on the highs looks somewhat easier now as we ran out of time on the U.S. political front. So, the correct moves for 2021 is now the freeing impulsive swing rather than the previous retracement:
But we must quite specifically keep an eye on continuation of sharp speculators outguessing government defaults cooking and the early game has started. Possibly the occupation of 4,500 and beyond.
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ridethepig | SHCOMP Market Commentary 2020.08.26📌 A quiet few weeks and enjoying the last few days of summer before things get very active in markets for the rest of the year and into 2021.
Global Equity buyers received their reward for their braveness play: overshoots are a weakness.
See diagram below.
The mysterious 2650 lows were held from the Giant Panda (PBOC), when retail threatened the attack down to make the recovery difficult the monetary side played the defence. At the same time, it also makes the inevitable far worse as the energy needed to get back to 2750/2650 is minimal. The book is very thin.
Buyers have made good use of the swing higher, ignoring Covid cases and deaths and totally looking through US/China protectionism. Sellers have played the waiting game and distributed on the test of resistance 3400/3350:
Prepare for a parry away as the ever present threat of covid approaches and puts further lockdown threats in play. The risk of a full blown monetary crisis has put Equities under permanent threat as the weakness comes from confidence. If consumers are not confident enough to return, or will question if clients are even able to meet, then it will not matter the amount of stimulus as the issue is far bigger than central banks.
A strong move here would be to push the tempo and threaten the immediate breakdown. Live portfolio flows and chart updates resuming as 'normal' from Jackson tomorrow.
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ridethepig | Chinese Equities ... The Slaughtered PigThe "hanging" candle
The problem is as follows:
If the only way to reach risk-on in and remove social distancing is either via a vaccine (most preferred option although not really in scope till 2021) or further extreme lockdown measures (as you all know extremely costly and damaging to the monetary side) to completely remove the virus from circulation. With all roads towards confidence blockaded, it's more advisable to take a contrarian stance to the equity promoters.
This is not an easy one to add too. It depends on the circumstances next week, namely on the virus front as Europe looks set to follow the US and lose control. This is something I would like you all to anticipate: it is all too easy as for the Robinhood pawns who tend to be weak when tested.
The flows are as follows:
1️⃣ the flows themselves in US equities are open to attack
2️⃣ the final nail in the coffin comes from long bonds which are too much pressure to maintain: this means that the necessary complacency forces retail to buy all the junk while those smart enough unload and exert Puts / shorts.
Here the notion of parking capital in China in the short-term turns out to be deceptive and soft. Once more the reason can be found in the previous SHCOMP swings: in diagrams attached below you will see excellent examples of PBOC blockaders and failures.
Ride the PBOC, Feb 3rd 2020
The attempt to ride the CB flows, the hanging lows were relatively obvious and panic creates weakness which can be bought with confidence like passing clouds.
SHCOMP Market Commentary, Feb 24th 2020
The pullback was a result of the PBOC and sharp hands. Many moons ago I would've been convinced by this market...not today.
This leads to the long run choppy conditions and unfavourable outcome of soft hands who placed their stops too blatently. The sell side is still there on the move, ride weakness is the strategy and balance out at key support levels.
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Major Highs Cooking for Chinese Equities!📍 In this position, after clearing the knee-jerk reaction from covid flows we are starting to enter into chapter II, heavy protection. The flows have shown strength in drastic fashion; the apparently bottomless wallet of keynsian economics - suddenly showing a surprising amount of animation! You can see the impact of PBOC on Chinese Equities here:
...and now buyers had a simple win by testing the 2983 highs. The retrace idea was as follows; overprotecting a strategically important structure. The reward was to open up a retest of the support which was an all embracing struggle for the PBOC:
In the long run, the positional struggle from CB's will come down to a struggle between healthcare on one hand and restraining capitalism on the other. It is extremely important to strive for re-openings in sensible fashion since the virus is still in circulation and lusts to expand. Health crisis cannot be solved with throwing money at it... not enough time has elapsed so the Stan Erck pump and dump we are watching with Novavax is set to flop and sadly put the final nail in the coffin for Global Equities.
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ridethepig | SHCOMP Market Commentary 2020.02.24A bloodbath across most of Asia with SHCOMP managing to hold via PBOC intervention. Actively sold the Tokyo close as red alerts have been triggered across Global EQ Index.
Those familiar with the current technical flows we are tracking will remember the PBOC dip; it was a classic example of CB intervention in attempt to stop the bleeding. The issue is that markets want to test the limits, CV is showing no signs of abating and the impact is still yet to be seen in earning and growth figures.
We have retraced back to the last breakdown point and selling has begun as if a new crisis is here...
Good luck all those on the sell-side in equities, a major move in the making if things do not get under control within days on the virus front. Thanks for keeping the support coming with likes, comments and etc!!
RIDE THE PBOC !!!China returning from LNY and an (un)lucky -8% selloff taking the headlines as SHCOMP catches up to the bleeding across Global Equities since last week. Well done those that caught the move we traded live here:
A flawless -8% leg in a single gap; as long as the full extent in the impact of this virus remains unclear it will be difficult for SHCOMP to get back above 3,000. These retraces should be seen as good SHCOMP selling opportunities (although tricky in this case for some). The liquidity injection from PBOC will be enough to put the handbrake on the selloff, this area is of focus and here looking for 2983 to the topside while 2650 is the area of focus below.
China a much bigger part of global growth now; almost 2/3 of China is in shutdown meaning PMIs are likely to dip next month. We have some time to complete the retrace before reassessing if the coronavirus impact can be looked through or if we will need to change MT and LT outlooks.
A transmission leg, not for the feint of heart. Thanks as usual for keeping the support coming with your likes, comments, charts and etc! Good luck all those trading SHCOMP after the last 8% move we can afford to leave some chips on the table.
ridethepig | SHCOMP Market Commentary 2020.01.31As usual thanks for keeping your support coming with likes, comments and etc... Lets get started with a round of important chart updates coming today (which btw is extraordinarily late after a week ban). I would like you to note the position arising here looks as though its "business as usual" for the dip buyer crowd, whereas sellers are seeking salvation in a momentum breakdown against the support.
The 2793.xx has now been exposed and the base is open for a typical attack. The macro cycle swing down started here when we traded the highs in April year:
As we know, the philosophy of a swing which we have dealt with can wield sound reason for the evaluation of any possible scenarios where flows are involved. But as this example will show, the theory of swings we have widely mentioned in previous charts can also be useful to highlight the notion that battlefields exist.
So we are talking here about an area which is needed to break in order to form the breakdown as a first premise. I would recommend that you try to technically understand the two different sides in play, notably should we fail to breakdown then the swing to the extreme topside with a rebound through the red line as the other scenario (this will come via coronavirus fading). It is possible to remain indifferent to direction without great difficult in the game.
German Equities are now forming a high and already appear to be coming off:
To secure the breakdown we will need Europe and NY to keep the pressure on today, SHCOMP is closed till Monday so gaps expected! Good luck!
SHCOMP How long is the divergence willing to last?The Shanghai Composite reflects the real situation that we are facing up. The S&P 500 completely out of mind in that perspective. Are we approaching a reversal movement in both indexes? Indeed, one of them has a lot of chances rather than the other. Which one is willing to turn over first?
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