Macro is ruled by two assets - the US dollar and US treasuries. If they move together they are usually telling us something important. It is time to have them both on your radar screen... 1/
Using the Euro/$ as the proxy for the dollar...there is risk of a very large head and shoulder forming. The dollar tends to rally on economic weakness (and falling yields).
And 10 year rates look like they are going to test the uptrend. If my hunch that H2 is going to be weaker than expected is correct, this trend line will confirm. After all, bonds speak the economic truth.
The Citi Economic Surprises Index will also give us its signal if it falls below 0, showing that analysts have over forecasted growth and inflation
What does it all mean IF it happens?
Bonds up, rotation out of value into growth (tech up)
Maybe a cheeky VAR shock (short, sharp equity sell-off)
BTC up
gold up
correction in commodities
EM underperforming.
Let's see over the next month...
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If you are as fascinated by community tokens as I am (I think it is the future of business models) then this interview with @hendry_hugh and @KevinChou with @AshBennington is fabulous.
Amazing interviews on the Real Vision Festival of Learning. Just watched good friends @SantiagoAuFund and @profplum99 who were so, so useful for many and as ever, great! @wolfejosh was the festival headliner with 2 incredible interviews; @nfergus who is always exceptional 1/
and a good friend of @RealVision too, along with the phenomenal @kahneman_daniel who was in my top 5 choice of guests ever for Real Vision (Finally got him!!). The round table between all three was the icing on the cake.
The depth and breadth of learning from this event, from the smartest minds in the world, fuck ups, processes and successes, is something magic.
Let's see how the Fed plays out but PTJ's observation that if they stick with their unemployment narrative then that is wildly bullish tech (BTC and gold too). Many big tech charts are looking poised to break higher, along with $ARKK.
Also....
If they remain serious about full employment (which I think they are) then either yields rises and yield curve control kicks in, expanding the balance sheet and pushing up risk assets, after an initial drop... or...
the post reopening rebound slows, as does relation (as is normal after initial post-recession, and is my base base for 2021) and the Fed have a hair trigger to do more QE and gov has hair trigger to do more stim.
I find DeMark Indicators work well for me for assessing probabilities. The weekly 9 on the log trend line in BTC feels about the right chance of a reversal higher. If this fails over a few weeks (lower odds), its will lead to much longer pain. Lets see...