Long Term Bonds Key LevelTLT daily is on key support as long term bond yields soar which is bearish for stocks. You can Also get a case where long term bonds rally and yields fall which is also bearish for stocks if short term yields continue to rise at the same time. This will likely be the case if the Fed pivots. By that point the yield curve has already kicked up at the short end resulting in a heavy landing recession.
TLT trade ideas
TLT previous support level reachedWith hidden daily bullish divergence at this support level we SHOULD see some buying start to happen. If not, the channel will break and it will look like they want to test the lows. This week's closing candle is very important. Under 111 will look ugly on a daily close, under 110 even worse.
TLT - Possible 3 Peaks and Domed House in progressHaving seen price fully retrace to "G", odds favor this being a 3PDH formation.
Its possible we may see a rally should the potential inverted H&S materialize,
but there is no time limit for the target to be reached, so this could
occur at a later date. The targeting from this formation could easily be
combined with other T.A. methodology as supplemental information.
TLT Bond ETF Setup for Reversal to LONG Relatively WeakNASDAQ:TLT
In comparing the ratio of TLT to QQQ, I have found the ratio
or relative strength is at its historical low range.
I conclude, now may be an excellent time to shift
assets into TLT if a trader believes that the bear market rally
for equities is loosing momentum or possibly reversing.
This is not a recommendation as to a trade and just my perspective
from analysis.
TLT Bond ETF Setup for Reversal to LONGNASDAQ:TLT
On the 4H Chart, TLT is sitting on minor support with major support below that.
It is near to the bottom of open Bollinger Bands and is inclined to move through
the basis line closer to the upper band.
Significant resistance is 5 and 15% upside.
I see a swing long trade with the stop loss below the major support and targets
before the major resistances, yielding a very good reward for risk.
Call options are another possibility to consider.
TLT - Head and Shoulders formingJust a pretty straight forward head and shoulders forming. Guess market doesn't like low yields after all? Time frame - probably B-wave rally ahead of next FOMC, then dump before FOMC. I'm trying to trade bear call spreads above 114 using TBT (better use of capital at $26 strike on TBT) and will sell bull put spreads at TLT near 120...probably....on TBT that's a bull put spread somewhere around $22 or $23.
Thoughts?
TLTThe market is trying to have its cake and eat it too....
The market priced in a rate cut for next year which is why long term bonds rallied recently. Meanwhile they pumped stocks because earnings were good. Can't have it both ways, either we're headed for a recession and stocks should go down or we're not and TLT needs to head down.
TLT and the market heading up at the same time really doesn't make sense based on what the Fed is doing. Probably just money flowing out of commodity trading which now appears to be a dead play. I said this a couple of months ago, if they keep pumping oil prices then the Fed will keep raising rates so it's done.
Anyways, chart pattern is similar to the December top, made some money overnight with TLT puts, I figured employment numbers would be good.
TLT chartHere's how I interpret the TLT chart: A shallow upward sloping channel overall long bull trend which was severely disrupted by the Covid crisis where we saw bonds spike to extreme low levels as yields plummeted which was then followed by an extreme reaction the other way to the downside as investors bet against US debt. It looks to me like the current rally may be this TLT ETF getting back to its more 'normal' channel from its extreme low. It is not there yet.
TLT to the moonWe really need this to break the 35 level to confirm a change in the trend. If it does not hen somewhere in the 70's would be a high point at which it would be prudent to consider removing some chips from the table. The plan is to wait for confirmation and a retest then it's off to the races, or maybe the moon.
Update on long duration bondsHello everybody! I wanted to make a quick update on where I think the 10y and 30y bonds will be headed in the next few months, as in the past, I've been talking quite a bit about deflation and a recession being close. We have seen TLT rise significantly, yet I think there is more upside. In the short term, I can see a further pullback, but in my honest opinion, the drop over the last two days was caused mainly by Pelosi visiting Taiwan and bonds getting overbought on lower timeframes.
The 30y yields were rejected at the monthly pivot, while the 10y yields bounced at support and were denied at resistance. Yields are still in a short-term bearish trend, and there is no confirmation of a reversal yet, although the trend might have changed. It all depends on the situation between China and the US, as the more the tensions between those countries increase, the higher inflation will be, and therefore the higher rates will be. If China starts aggressively selling US bonds, this could create chaos in the funding markets. If the US starts banning Chinese imports or exports, the US bond market could explode, and yields go to the moon. This would force the Fed to step in and do unlimited QE / yield curve control. Essentially we are stuck in a scenario of mutually assured destruction here, and there is no way either one will come out as a winner in the short term.
I believe that we are in a deflationary/disinflationary period, which could be disturbed at any moment if China invades Taiwan. The Russia/Ukraine war pushed inflation higher at a time when inflation was about to start slowing down, and a China/Taiwan war could push inflation higher at a time when inflation was about to slow down. TLT could quickly reach 125-135 in the next few months. However, I don't believe bond yields are going negative soon. It will be challenging for the market to have negative nominal yields when inflation is so high and at a time when the Fed might be forced to intervene and do YCC.