Introduction When we covered gold’s 7.6% run earlier this week, the driver was a collapse in September rate-hike expectations. The dollar is the other side of that trade, and it tells the same story from the opposite direction: DXY fell from roughly 101.70 in late July to 99.50 in early August, a drop of about Read More…
NQ is coiling in a rising wedge just under 30,000 after reclaiming the August 5 low near 27,215 with a sharp multi-day bounce. Price is now pressing against the top of a consolidation range. Trade Setup Bias: Long Entry: Close above 30,074 Stop: 29,600 Target: 31,000 Invalidation A close back below 29,600 negates the setup Read More…
Introduction The Dow was the one major index that did not celebrate the July inflation report. While the S&P 500 opened at a record high and the Nasdaq closed up 0.54% on August 12, the Dow settled at 53,770.27 — down 21.58 points, or 0.04%, on a day the data went its way. YM has Read More…
Follow-Up: What Played Out Since August 5 Analysis We flagged 30,000 as the level to watch in our last analysis on Nasdaq, with a close above it opening the door to 30,300 and the June highs. Price never got there. Instead, NQ spent five sessions grinding sideways beneath that number, closing at 29,794.75 — 101 Read More…
Follow-Up: What Played Out Since August 4 Gold has done exactly what we were watching for. In our previous analysis, price was stuck at 4,118.8 in a tight range between 4,050 and 4,200, and the one thing we singled out was a quiet series of higher lows building in RSI while price went nowhere. That Read More…
Follow-Up: What Played Out Since August 3 We flagged 79.92 as the level that needed to hold in our last analysis on crude, with a break opening the door to the 75.00–77.00 shelf. Oil fell hard into that zone, losing roughly 11% across the week’s first three sessions and closing at 75.22, right at the Read More…
