It put a smile on my face Bobby. I can’t stand that clown Johnathan Ferro on Bloomberg, it went South as soon as he became lead in the morning, all I can stand is the Asian session in Bloomberg anymore just because of him lol. Until Chenali comes on in NY proper then its great, she is former Goldman and strong. The biggest loss I ever took was following the advice of the treasuries guy on Cnbc years ago lol. Might it be advisable to listen to them but factor in imperfection?
Bobby – as I mentioned earlier covered calls fell off of a cliff this morning. That either amounts to everyone getting out or letting them go naked on an uphill run. If you look as the relation with spot in simple technical terms that anyone can understand, Dxy is holding with rates which supports the idea stocks are not as happy as they seem. We had a strong close on 4/11 that turned into a pump and dump lasting six days. Also S/P options did not clear Fridays high mark so not sold on the hoopla at this point.
Bonds are experiencing a bit of moderate pushback on the attempt to catch wind that has been in play since 4/16 (US). The bid has held since but with this pullback I am paying special attention to the 20yr Index currently at 90.21 and looking like it might test sub-90 and in my view if 89.70 holds we would see yields drop and the Euro as well. I like to pay attention to a group of things because sometimes you get a little “heads up.” A bit of an inflection point starting this week. Just some added input. You know what my position is on Usd.
Just to add a little, covered calls in Dow are very low, Pos/Neg volume is looking like its running out of steam. Would not be surprised to see Euro drift down and Usd in general sort of hang in there. A bit weak in conviction in a few ways today.
big picture … just as June Gold futures are a top over 2400; June USD futures should decline from 106.00 and June Euro futures should rally from 1.0650, per Option Profile
Trading THEME , week of april 22
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Correctly identify the degree of difference in the messaging on interest rates from ECB and the Fed AND how much traction that theme has with players and you ll have your “go with” or “go against” trade bias
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JP it seems to me that ECB wants to start cutting but is apprehensive and waiting for the FED to work in unison. They are communist after all so they like herd mentality.