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2022-???? Bear Market to be labeled as: Bond Bust!Recession, Stagflation, Inflation, Dollar Strength, Russia/Ukraine War...how about labeling the current market turmoil what it really is; A Bond Bust! As you can see from the monthly chart below, in Jan 2022 the US10YR Yield bullishly broke the neckline of an inverse H&S that formed between June 2019-Jan 2022; then in March of 2022 it broke up again from major downtrend line. (I wrote a post about this in March 2022 saying we were in "Unchartered Territory" and the US10YR must be watched). If the Inverse H&S plays out it means we will see interest rates in the 7.5-8% range at a minimum in the near term. (Two things worth noting: 1. Nothing about this chart is bearish nor can you say it is showing any signs of reversing anytime soon when looking at it from a long term perspective. 2. Based upon charting theory-H&S patterns usually play out IF they are formed at tops or bottoms) Most people think of bonds as a "relatively safe" investment vs. other types of investments so when you have the below loss on a "relatively safe" investment it should send out shock waves: 2022 YTD TLT LOSS: -34.12% TLT High to Low during current bear market (Years 2000-2022): -48.89% A 20 year US Bond ETF losing almost 50% within 31 months should be shocking AND, as stated above, yields are not showing any signs of reversing! Here are the YTD Losses, as of Friday, in the US Indexes. NDX: -30.08% RUT: -19.29% SPX: -19.04% DJI: -10.99% Would you have ever thought that TLT would outperform NDX in YTD losses during a bear market? Before 2022, I think 99.9% of traders would state this would be impossible. And yet...here we are with only two months left in 2022. Now to the monthly charts of the DOW/DJI. I wanted to have a look at this chart since it has held up relatively well to see how the current monthly chart compares to other bear markets (Defined as a greater than 20% decline close to close). The green line on the charts is the 15 SMA...I also added some horizontal highs/lows based upon the high/lows of the last time price made an ATH and then closed below the 15 SMA and then back above it BEFORE a bear market formed. No two bear markets are the same so it's really about the relationship of the 15 SMA and the horizontal pink & red lines...what this analysis tells me is we will most likely test the March 2020 low at some point in time...we might come back up and re-test the ATH or go a little above it but statistically speaking if you look at the bear markets of the last 100 years in the DOW a new bull market is not us! Oct 2022 could however provide a temporary low! (Exceptions: 1917 & 1987 bear markets) Key take aways: 1. The US10YR Yield; followed by the other common known Treasury Yields, should be the most discussed topic and how those charts affect money flows into different types of investments instead of all the other FUD out there! Remember: Money chases yields. 2. The chances of us re-visiting the Covid lows in the DOW are high given the above analysis. 3. NDX doesn't like high Treasury Yields as it's currently the weakest of the US Indexes and very weak compared to the DOW. Its history isn't as vast as the DOW so its anyone's guess as to how low it could go or how long it could take to make another ATH. It's not an Index I'm looking at buying anytime soon as Yields have made a clear signal that the 40 year downtrend has ended so we need to change our thinking in this new environment! 4. January seems to be a topping month while October seems to be a bottoming month however that is probably just a coincidence as this was not the case in the early 1900's. There is a lot to take in above so I hope it makes sense after you think through it...I know it's not a quick read!
TVC:DJIShort
by Vixtine
3
TLT Targeting A Test of 99.19Technical & Trade View TLT (ishares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF) Bias: Bullish Above Bearish below 93.27 Technicals Primary support is 93.27 Primary pattern objective is 99.19 Acceptance above 95.40 next pattern confirmation Acceptance below 93.20 opens a test of 90.30 20 Day VWAP bearish , 5 Day VWAP bearish Notes US CPI released today, volatility expected around the print Goldman Sachs expects ‘a below-consensus 0.44% increase in core CPI in October (vs. 0.5% consensus), which would lower the year-on-year rate to 6.46% (vs. 6.5% consensus). We expect moderate increases in both food and energy prices to raise headline CPI by 0.49% (vs. 0.6% consensus), which would lower the year-on-year rate to 7.8% (vs. 7.9% consensus)' Going forward Goldman 'expect monthly core CPI inflation to remain in the 0.3-0.4% range for the next couple of months before edging down to 0.2-0.3% next year. We forecast year-over-year core CPI inflation of 6.2% in December 2022, 3.3% in December 2023, and 2.7% in December 2024. The deceleration we expect in 2023 is driven more by goods than services categories'
NASDAQ:TLTLong
by Tickmill
TLT heads up on where SPY is headingPreviously, mentioned about how TLT, UST10Y and SPY have a special relationship where the former two leads the latter. And overlaying the SPY on the TLT daily chart, there is a warning given… That TLT is heading down given that it failed a resistance level at 98, and more recently at 95. Support is at 93, and failing this brings TLT near its recent low. The MACD is turning down, while the Vol Div clearly crossed down. Oddly enough, while the correlation between SPY and TLT is uncanny, the SPY is still far off it’s recent low. A suggestion to manage risk surely? Hint hint. IMHO, this another indication that the SPY is revisiting its last low… especially when TLT does that soon.
NASDAQ:TLT
by Auguraltrader
TLT -- When I'm Going to Thinking About Going Long 20 Year+The short answer is: at pre-Great Recession levels when the yield on the 10-year T note was at 5.0% or above. Current forecasts for the terminal Fed funds rate are for 4.75-5.00 in February of 2023, which could push the 20 year+ paper exchange-traded fund back to near 2006-2007 levels between 80.50 and 82.05. (See, $TNX, June '06 high, 5.245, correspondent with a TLT 82.56 low; June '07 high, 5.316, correspondent with a TLT 82.20 low). If current bets as to the terminal rate are correct, we should fall short of the 2006 and 2007 levels, but could nevertheless be pretty darn close. And since current bets are that the Fed Funds rate doesn't come off 4.75-5.00 until much later in the year (the current forecast, is, ugh, November of 2023), this would conceivably require a good amount of time to work out. As we've seen, however, things can change. A few months ago, bets weren't being made on a terminal rate quite this high and that a potential cut would come far sooner in 2023. But, here we are. Inflation could either remain "sticky," or come down rapidly in response to what the Fed has done so far, in which case, we never see the low 80s in 20 year+ maturity paper. Naturally, if we do get there, I'll look to dip my toe in, whether it be with short puts (which would be a quasi-acquisitional play, most likely in my IRA) or something more directional, like a long call diagonal or a zebra/call ratio backspread ... .
NASDAQ:TLTLong
by NaughtyPines
Great Trades are Rarely Crowded: Long TLT and Short Twitter IQEveryone is a good trader in a bull market, but in a bear market, these good traders are reduced to hopium-fueled twitter analysts watching core CPI and interest rates. The former and latter data points serve nothing more as useless, out-of-context generalities for the single-celled Wall Street Bet retail enjoyer. But recent activity across the pond has sparked interest in the bond. These traders are now converting en-masse to self-proclaimed bond market experts with the thesis: "The bond market is broken" Except, the bond market is not broken. It is operating as intended, although two lines on a chart may disagree with anyone unfortunate enough to buy at the start of the year. Why is retail sentiment like this? The simple answer is that the fed is late, but a more-elaborate explanation follows: Bond yields rise because bond prices fall. It is the acquisition of a bond at a specific market price that determines that bond's yield, as a function of the difference between that bonds underlying rate (which is fixed) and the resale price. When interest rates rise, bond prices fall because newer bonds spawn with the higher base rate. This makes prior bonds, which have a lower fixed rate, less valuable because they output less extra cheddar. People then resell these bonds for a lower price and the yield rises according to market forces (the fed does not directly control this). Shorter duration treasuries follow interests rates very closely, whereas longer dated treasuries are difficult to influence by rate hikes. Either way these are secondary or tertiary market effects. This phenomenon is what results in an inverted yield curve: you can be paid more money to lend money for a shorter duration than a longer one. But why would something so illogical even happen? The answer is because the treasury market is not just any pig, it's a truffle-sniffing pig. For every brain cell in the equity or corporate credit market, the treasury market has a thousand-fold more. With these one-thousand brain cells, this pig (specifically the longer-dated pig) is rewarded by looking further ahead into the future. What does this pig see when they look that far ahead? An recession that will obliterate the equity market like Exodia. The long dated treasuries have started to price in a recession (very slowly) by pricing in rate cuts. This is why stocks and bonds are still correlated, but the correlation has started showing signs of weakness. The longer tail of the curve is smarter and refuses to sell these bonds like a fire sale. Recessions imply a fed pause and eventual rate cut, so no more high-interest treasuries. This makes bonds desirable, and this process is only starting now. I can already feel the credit market enjoyers seething and muttering: SLR relief expired! Reverse Repo! Basil Tea! No, none of these buzzwords matter. It's true that the pandemic has modified the initial conditions of the bond market. The TLT suffered immensely as the federal reserve promised to not raise rates through forward guidance, broke those promises (as is should have), and also allowed SLR Relief exemptions to expire. This made bonds less sexy and glamorous for banks like JP Morgan because the expiry affected treasury exemptions: banks didn't need to hold additional collateral to slurp bond yields, and now they again do. It's much easier now to park money with the fed overnight and get a little more back. The RRP is a much better facility than treasuries as a result, so bond indexes have dropped even harder. SLR relief is a cherry on top, but this truffle has always tasted good without it. It's absence, and whether it is reinstated or not, should not be a determining factor in the recovery of bond prices, because: No market has currently priced in a recession, and interest rate expectations demonstrate that without a chart, but when that happens, the bond market will get top billing. Bonds will decouple from stocks and TLT will rise from the ashes like a phoenix in the next quarters, incinerating twitter and reddit soys drawing lines on a chart and shorting the index. Nobody saw it coming, they will say, but good trades are never crowded. Smart money extracts the deep value from TLT in the pre-recessionary market by going long (DCA or otherwise). Degenerate smart money is gambling with TLT long calls. Whereas most of the market is still buying stocks, crypto, and chanting that the markets are broken and the fed will come roaring in. These pigs won't find any truffles in this market. Interest rate expectations are unrealistic and the fed will have to pause sometime early 2023. The recession will destroy demand, taking growth, inflation, and equity market with it, rising bond prices and dropping bond yields. The stock market will crash (I don't consider this current price action a crash yet) and continue burning even as the fed pauses, and dip buyers will be buying a dip that keeps on dipping while you're selling your new truffles on ebay because you lost your job due to mass layoffs across the entire economy.
NASDAQ:TLTLong
by coinhoIio
10
DXY is Not A Fan of BitcoinI am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air. Unregulated Crypto Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity. We have only one real currency in the USA, and it is stronger than ever, both dependable and reliable. It is by far the most dominant currency anywhere in the World, and it will always stay that way. It is called the United States Dollar!
TVC:DXYLong
by coinhoIio
TLT, UST10Y and SPY - a heads up relationshipI read somewhere recently about two co-relationships between bond prices/yields and the SPY. First was about TLT - where TLT goes, the market (SPY) follows it was said. Second, was about the UST10Y (US Treasury 10 Year Yields) having to abate its bull run before the SPY cools its bearish rout. So, I took the opportunity to put these thoughts together visually and overlaid their charts. Interesting observations between these three it seems... There are three highlighted periods in 2022, all of which provide a very similar pattern. Notably, the UST10Y has a tight inverse relationship with the TLT (UST 20Y Bond ETF), which is expected. And if we follow the markings in order... The time line starts the cycle where TLT brings the SPY higher as the two are in alignment to move higher, where the UST10Y drops. Then there is a period where the UST10Y rises, and the TLT falls, but the SPY continues to countertrend (from TLT) and head upwards. This is not sustainable and TLT gave heads up of that (red shaded red box). Int he rest of the red box period, this is where the SPY stop diverging with TLT and follows TLT int he downward move. The shaded red box is the period where TLT is like a leading indicator of the SPY. To restart this whole cycle, it also seems that TLT needs to have a MACD crossover, and a MFI Histo crossover; the time lines mark the MFI Histo crossover after the MACD cross over. Given these patterns, the current situations appears to favor a continued downside drift, at least until a MACD crossover, post MACD bullish divergence, and then a MFI Histo crossover. This would appear to take several weeks more. Heads up!
NASDAQ:TLT
by Auguraltrader
TLT: Order Flow, Auction Process & Failures To RotateHey traders, If we zoom out to check the price action in TLT from a daily perspective, what do you notice? Every single time there is a failure to rotate (hinted via diamond labels), the new expansionary wave leads the market towards a new equilibrium point that so far has been found at much lower prices. I’ve circled each and every instance where these failures to rotate back up occurred. Each market is an auction process, and via the OFA script , we are able to get a pristine read of the constant ebbs and flows. The structure depicted via the script should also be a clear red flag that in this type of well-anchored bear market, being a hero typically gets you in trouble, so stay with the trend. Remember the two key main features of the OFA indicator: Magnitude: A major clue that will help determine the health of a trend is the type of progress by the dominant side in control of the trend. We need to ask the following question: Are the new legs in the active buy-sell side campaign as identified by the script increasing or decreasing in magnitude? Velocity: When it comes to the distance the price moves, the magnitude is only ½ the equation. The other ½ has to do with the velocity of the move or the speed. Was the new leg created after a fast and impulsive move? Or did price make a new low or high with the movement being sluggish, compressive and taking too long to form? A good rule of thumb is to count the number of candles it took to achieve a new leg. DISCLAIMER: This post contains commentary published solely for educational and informational purposes. This post's content (and any content available through links in this post) and its views do not constitute financial advice or an investment or trading recommendation, and they do not account for readers' personal financial circumstances, or their investing or trading objectives, time frame, and risk tolerance. Readers should perform their own due diligence, and consult a qualified financial adviser or other investment / financial professional before entering any trade, investment or other transaction.
NASDAQ:TLTEducation
by FlowState
6
$TLT: Preparing to buy when safeI am monitoring bonds here, as we are approaching the target of a weekly down trend signal that fired recently, while the monthly timeframe trend is about to reach its end. By the end of September, the odds of a reversal in bonds will be very high, while equities are looking like they could crash lower from here possibly, and we could get inflation to come down, likely due to the effect of recessionary forces at play thanks to Powell's hawkishness. Since the Federal Reserve is hell bent on killing inflation hiking rates, and the data they use won't make them worry about this course of action until it's likely too late, odds of something breaking badly here are substantial. As such, I'm eager to spot the bottom in $TLT / $ZROZ to invest. We have a decent enough juncture here, where it starts making sense to pay attention to reversal cues in multiple timeframes and monitor signals closely to go long big time when confirmed. Best of luck, Ivan Labrie.
NASDAQ:TLTLong
by IvanLabrie