Current Touts

The slimeballs who manipulate this stock for a living made full use of a short-squeeze opportunity when Microsoft announced earnings after Wednesday's close that unsurprisingly surpassed estimates. What could bears have been thinking?? DaBoyz kicked off the celebration with a $40 rally after the close, then worked their criminal magic again on Friday's opening to hoist the stock a further $10.  Realize that no stock changed hands during the spectacular first stage of this maneuver, and only a relative handful of shares traded on the second. The result was an approximately $317 billion contribution to the financial realm's gaseous 'wealth effect'.  Most of it came in mere nanoseconds, since that's how long it takes to create an enormous gap on a chart. This is a feat that mere bullish buying could never have hoped to achieve. It required mainly the arrant stupidity of shorts, who dependably acted as though the risk of getting blown out of the water was negligible. If I had to guess where MSFT, financialization's chief instrument for adding fake money to the system, is headed, I'd say to xxx.xx.  I don't want to queer the bold, Hidden Pivot magic of this number, so I'll post it only in the chat room.

The futures ended the week a hair shy of a 5736.00 target I'd posted in the chat room. This would have merited an aggressive short if the target had been hit, ideally with at least 90 minutes remaining in the session. Alas, we'll have to reserve these ambitions, since it will be a new game when the futures start to trade again ahead of Monday's opening. The target is still shortable, but squeezing off the trade could be harrowing in the thin-volume nervousness of Sunday evenings. If the June contract blows past 5736.00, be prepared to short the next target aggressively, a Hidden Pivot 'd' target at 5867.00.

A faint glimmer of hope appeared last week with DXY's subtle poke through the 'd' target of a minor reverse pattern.  It isn't much to celebrate, but the fact that the rally even made it to 'D' implies something may have changed, since the last time this modest feat succeeded was almost a year ago. To gauge its significance, we'll need to monitor retracement patterns closely, since they should have trouble exceeding p if the dominant trend has in fact changed.  The first in evidence, on the 30-minute chart, not only exceeded p, it topped at the 'd' target of a minor rABC on Friday (a=99.70 on 5/1 at 7:30 a.m.).

I used a tiny one-off high to draw the pattern shown, but three confirmations at p suggest it will produce only winning outcomes for us. That would imply that a drop to D=3174.50 should be bought aggressively, albeit with the obligatory micro-stop possible using a 'camo' trigger. One thing the chart does NOT say is that June Gold will necessarily reach the target, since the initial penetration of the midpoint Hidden Pivot was anything but decisive. Notice, however, that it delivered a profitable 'mechanical' short - three of them, actually - and that's usually a tip-off that D/d will be reached. We don't much trade 'conventional' patterns any longer, but this one, with its crazy point 'a' and asymmetry, seemed ripe for exploitation. _______ UPDATE Apr 6, 5:52 p.m.): As the chart makes crystal-clear, June Gold is headed most immediately to 3472.7, the ‘midpoint Hidden Pivot’ of the pattern shown. It can be shorted there, but only with a delicate stop-loss, since the futures will be on their way to 3736.00 in a trice if they blow past the midpoint resistance without hesitation. You could always try shorting up there, but wouldn’t it be far better to shove your accursed doubts aside for once and catch an almost certain 300-point rally?   

July Silver has tripped a theoretical sell signal at 32.110 tied to a D target at 26.405. I doubt it will be that bad, but we should still be prepared for a fall to the midpoint Hidden Pivot, 30.210. We'll make that our minimum downside objective for the near term while planning to bottom-fish there with entry risk under tight control. Because of the way the pattern is constructed, with a somewhat unconventional 'A' and a 'p' Hidden Pivot in the middle of nowhere, a dip to p would provide an exceptional opportunity to bottom-fish.  This will obtain unless the futures reverse and pop above C=34.015.

GDXJ is just an inch from touching down at the 57.53 Hidden Pivot target shown. The pattern looks too obvious to work precisely, but it is also sufficiently compelling to all but guarantee a tradable turn from somewhere near 57.53.  This usually means that catching the low on a chart of lesser degree will endure a stop-out or two before the vehicle reverses and does what it is supposed to do: make you money. A decisive penetration of 'd', especially on first contact, would be quite discouraging, but I doubt we'll see it. _______ UPDATE (Apr 6): I first mentioned a 72.23 target two months ago when GDXJ was trading in the mid-50s.  The target still looks all but certain to be achieved, especially with the recent breach of a 64.23 midpoint Hidden Pivot associated with an even higher target at 111.59 (!)   Further attesting to the power of the rally, the thrust exceeded the watershed high at 65.95 recorded in August 2020.  Although a stall at 72.23 should be expected, GDXJ would be signaling a potentially ballistic move to 111.59 if it punches through the lower resistance easily.  The pattern yielding these targets is compelling, implying that a top of some importance could occur at 111.59. Here is the graph I'm using to get a confident handle on this vehicle. The data go back to 2009, the year in which GDXJ was listed.

We'll have a better idea of how long it might take for Bitcoin to reach the 129,978 target once we've seen buyers interact with the Hidden Pivot midpoint at 102,199.  It can serve as our minimum upside objective for now, and also cue up a possible 'mechanical' entry. If the C-D leg of the pattern maintains its current pitch, a pullback to x from above the red line (102,199) would not be unusual. It could set up a juicy opportunity to get long or augment an existing position. _______ UPDATE (May 9, 3:55 a.m. EDT): Bitcoin’s poke on Thursday above a 102,355 ‘midpoint Hidden Pivot’ has shortened the odds that it will reach the 130,189 'D' target. (Note: These numbers differ slightly from the price points given earlier.) Moreover, a pullback to x=88,362 (the green line), however unlikely, would trigger a juicy theoretical ‘mechanical’ buy, stop 74,419. Let’s wait and see how much the upthrust exceeds p on first contact. Two consecutive weekly closes above it would all but clinch more upside to at least p2=116,247.

The unconventional pattern shown implies that TNX would be a short if it  rises to 4.42%.  This means interest rates on the 10-Year Note could be at or near a cyclical top at that level. If we treat the graph as we would any other, a fist-pump through c=4.59% would imply that rates are about to rise sharply. But if the 'mechanical' aspect of the trade works the way it's supposed to, rates could be on their way down to as low as 3.90% if they reverse at 4.42%.

June Crude has tripped a moderately appealing 'mechanical' buy signal, but we'll use it to get our bearings rather than try for a quick score. Pullbacks to the green line from the secondary Hidden Pivot (p2=63.66) are riskier to buy 'mechanically', at least for a move back to the target, but the set-up is often good for a one-level ride, in this case from 57.67 to 60.66. It's too late to jump aboard, since the futures are already trading above x=57.67. Still, I'll suggest observing what happens next to familiarize yourselves with the trade and the opportunity big retracements can create..04