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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder they say... so it is with PXJ at the moment. I see an ascending wedge but also an ascending triangle. One is bearish while the other is bullish. Both are decently high-probability setups. Ok, so they're not drawn textbook style but there're reasons why I've ignored certain bars. So someone else could probably see...

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The Hang Seng Index is trading around the lower boundary of the long uptrend channel & looks poised to test support around the 22,000 level. A dip towards the Covid intra-day low 21,139 may not be out of the question given that 1,000 point intra-day moves in the HSI occurs frequently enough. A critical level for me would be 23,150. I would establish a short...

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Economists are forecasting anything from 3 to 7 hikes in 2022 while the Fed funds futures market appear to be pricing in at least 5 rate hikes in 2022, starting with the first, a 25bp hike, at the March FOMC meeting. The Fed's current target range is 0 to 0.25%. March futures (ZQH2022) imply a rate of 0.23 suggesting that the lower target rate will be raised...

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Inflation is running hot in Turkey at 21% YoY & soon to surpass the 2019 high of 25%. And yesterday the central bank, or dare we say President Erdogan, cut the weekly repo rate by 100 bp to 14%. His theory is that lower rates will tame inflation. And the Turkish Lira promptly hit an all-time low against the US dollar. President Erdogan for chair of the US Fed, anyone?