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COMMENTARY for Thursday
TODAY'S ACTION for Thursday
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Despite the deflationist theme sounded in today’s commentary, I don’t see gold falling apart here. Far from it, for there are in fact just too many buyers around the world who understand that paper money, most particularly the dollar, is currently enjoying its last hurrah. That said, we should keep a very close eye on Comex Gold’s ups and downs and take seriously any bearish impulse legs that develop on the hourly chart. The ones in progress this week played out yesterday to their lowermost target, 1186.50, prompting an update at the time that that could be it for sellers for the time being. We shall see. But notice in the accompanying inset that there was no damage whatsoever to the daily chart. That would require a selloff this week exceeding 1156.20 — not impossible, as we know, but until such time as it happens there’s no point in worrying about it. ______ UPDATE (3:55 a.m. EDT): DaBoyz are playing dirtier than usual tonight, taking the futures down nearly $12 just to run stops tied to a key low at 1184.40 recorded on May 10. The futures have since recovered nearly all of the loss, making the move seem in retrospect like a wholly gratuitous swoon. The nearest Hidden Pivot target at the moment is 1194.40, $1.10 above the so-far recovery high.
There are numerous corrective patterns in motion right now in different time frames, including one on the hourly chart that has yet to establish a point ‘C’ high (but A=18.725, B=17.920). I suggest watching abc midpoints on the hourly to determine whether a bullish turn is at hand. If so, the downward progress of any such pattern should be visibly impeded at the hidden ’p’ support. Bulls could cease splitting hairs if the futures pop above 18.810 today, since that would turn the lesser charts unambiguously positive.
Traders easily could have made hay with the 1098.75 support I’d flagged, since the futures popped yesterday for a 20-point rally precisely from that number. It is the midpoint support of a major downtrend that is itself part of the even larger uptrend begun in March of 2009. Yesterday’s failure to penetrate the support is bullish going forward, but this still needs to be confirmed by the creation of a bullish impulse leg on the hourly chart. As of now, that would require a print at 1150.60 (see inset). If the confirmation does not come and the futures close below 1098.75 for two consecutive days, look for the selling to snowball all the way down to 1022.75.
Unlike the E-Mini S&P, the E-Mini-Dow never got close to a Hidden Pivot midpoint support that we’d flagged. It turned from 50 points above it, although this will not have bullish implications until such time as the futures push above 10722, a look-to-the-left peak recorded May 14 on the way down.
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Take any dozen good reasons for being bearish right now and they still don’t equal the bullishness of the chart shown. The undeniably compelling rally objective is 13085, a 4.8% move from current levels, and one can only surmise that the dusting the 12158 midpoint received on the last pullback (12/28) all but clinched a finishing stroke to the higher number. Moreover, it implies that bears shouldn’t get their hopes too high even if, in the next few days, the Dow plummets 324 points to retest the midpoint support. As of now, that would signal not weakness, but a screaming opportunity to get long. Hard to believe, really, but that’s what the charts say.
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Inflationistas Have Been Mighty Quiet Lately
by Rick Ackerman on May 20, 2010 12:01 am GMT · 45 comments
We backed off the inflation/deflation debate a few months ago when we started feeling sorry for the inflationists, who seemed hopelessly out of touch with the real world. As far as we were concerned there was nothing to debate, since, other than what we’ve referred to as grocery-store inflation, no evidence existed that prices were about to rise, let alone explode. That is still true. What on earth could they have been thinking? It should have been clear enough that the monetarists needed to revamp their outmoded theories after rampant easing in the wake of the S&L debacle 20 years ago failed to generate any meaningful inflation at the consumer level. What we got instead was a new strain of “good” inflation that seemed to benefit everyone. Indeed, few complaints were heard from homeowners » Read the full article