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still headed south
short squeeze has blown all shorts out of market.
Shorts covered a tad on GOLD - still MASSIVE Open Interest
http://news.goldseek.com/COT/1357331556.php
Volume ???
Great holiday currency manipulation by central banks... as China Japan on holiday most of week.
Yen Pairs moonshot.
SPY follows... we'll see how long the farce goes.
Can't fight the Fed.
Chart
http://uppix.net/d/b/8/0495c44d721ca19974b72a0391ec0.jpg
U.S. Dollar rallies off of support again, as traders rush in to sell Gold & Silver- 2013-01-04 07:32:41-05 CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE The U.S. Dollar has found line (1) to be support over the past year. Over the past few weeks the US$ is moving higher again off of this support. As traders are moving flows towards the US$, selling is taking place in Gold & Silver, creating a series of lower [...] http://blog.kimblechartingsolutions.com/2013/01/u-s-dollar-rallies-off-of-support-again-as-traders-rush-in-to-sell-gold-silver/
for ten years on INVERSE of this situation.
We now go to HIGHER Taxes HIGHER Rates and Middle Class Squeeze.
Gold is headed WAY LOWER at LEAST 50% of 10 12 YR move up
Taxes Up... Gold dumps Where to go ? KING DOLLAR SPIKING GO TO CASH before the CRASH.
Or Asian Equities - Japan or China ... both countries selling US Bonds buying own equities... FED cannot prop Bond market much longer ... SELL all bonds a crash is possible.
By not addressing the payroll tax, the Fiscal Cliff deal will also result in a tax hike for all workers. 50% hike in Witholdings #forex
The clock is ticking
Time is running out. As this note goes to press, the cliff negotiations have
devolved into two unpalatable options: (1) extend just the middle income tax cuts
and extended unemployment benefits and allow about two-thirds of the cliff to
happen, or (2) go over the cliff in the entirety. In our view, given the short time
frame and legislative hurdles, the latter appears much more likely.
Here we look at what we believe are likely scenarios and potential impact of each
on the economy and markets. We reiterate our key calls as follows:
Going over the cliff is not a benign “slope” as some suggest. Rather, it
accelerates the already-building damage to the economy and markets. The
latest evidence is the plunge in consumer confidence. Indeed, this could mark
the beginning of the rotation in the uncertainty shock from businesses to
consumers.
Once the cliff deadline has passed, something has to convince politicians that
what they are doing is not worth the price. Due to reporting lags, the damage
to the economy will only become clear over time. Hence the catalyst for
action will likely need to be market weakness and severe public criticism.
Today the stock market has increasingly become the disciplining force in
spurring action in Washington. “Stock market vigilantes” have replaced “bond
market vigilantes.”
Going over the cliff has many secondary, largely ignored, negative impacts,
including tax changes that could damage the housing recovery, as well as
negatively impact education and alternative energy, among many others.
Over the coming weeks we expect politicians to agree to a series of partial
patches, with some parts of the cliff delayed and others allowed to expire. The
result would be a series of awkward decision points with attendant pressure on
consumer, business and investor confidence. But we continue to believe the cliff
will be mostly resolved before the end of the first quarter. In our view, the biggest
risk to this expectation is a protracted battle over raising the debt ceiling, which
will be reached by late February or early March, after extraordinary measures.
Cliff or slope?
Optimists on the cliff outcome argue that it is a fiscal “slope,” not a cliff. We
believe this view is correct in a limited sense, but wrong in a more fundamental
sense:
The good news is that many of the cuts do not kick in on January 2. Some
tax increases may not be immediately reflected in pay checks. Some
spending programs will wind down slowly as they first use up existing cash
balances. Moreover, even if the economy contracts for a month or two, a
recession usually involves six months or more of decline and if cliff items are
resolved retroactively, the economy could experience a mini-rebound.
The bad news is that in the real world expectations matter and just the
possibility of going over the cliff has already damaged the economy. Capital
spending cooled this year and recent consumer confidence readings have
dropped sharply. Holiday shopping has already disappointed and downside
risks to spending increase the longer the cliff casts its shadow. More on
confidence below.
The ugly news is that going over the cliff reduces the urgency of getting a
deal done. Once the deadline is violated, what induces the two sides to stop
fighting and start compromising? Doesn’t going over the cliff suggest that
each side believes the short term damage from going over the cliff is not as
bad as the long term “damage” of a “bad” compromise? As we have seen in
the past, often very strong outside pressure is likely needed to induce
decisions in Washington. Historically, “bond market vigilantes” have been the
disciplining force in ensuring responsible monetary and fiscal policy; today,
“stock market vigilantes” are playing that role.
What’s next
While the most optimistic scenarios have been eliminated, a wide range of messy
potential outcomes remain:
At this point, the failure to reach a deal means a “clean” grand bargain, where
the two sides quickly compromise on most of the cliff items, is highly unlikely.
There could be a mini-deal, where they extend middle income tax cuts and
extended unemployment benefits and allow the other two-thirds of the cliff to
expire. The hurdles for such a deal are high: they require that Senate leaders
agree, that all 100 Senators agree to expedited legislation, a majority of both
the Senate and the House vote for the legislation and the President signs it.
As such, the most likely outcome, in our humble opinion, is that all the cliff
items expire—a fiscal austerity equivalent to about 4 ½% of GDP. Then in the
coming weeks there are a series of partial patches with some parts of the cliff
retroactively extended and others simply allowed to expire. The result would
be a series of awkward decision points with attendant pressure on consumer,
business and investor confidence.
While we expect to fall off the cliff, we believe the cliff is resolved before the end
of Q1. The impact on the economy will depend on the following factors:
How long do we remain over the cliff? Each week without some resolution
means more delayed spending, increased tax withholding and, most
importantly, a deeper shock to confidence.
How many brinkmanship moments? The cliff is big and complicated. A clean
grand bargain is unlikely, in our view. More likely are a series of smaller deals
that patch up the cliff and prolong the uncertainty shock.
How big is the austerity and does it hit gradually or quickly? One of the most
dangerous things about the cliff is that there is no phase in period — it all
happens in the first year.
How serious is the damage to confidence for consumers, businesses and
investors? So far the scars look relatively mild.
How big a credit downgrade is there and is faith in Treasuries as the core of
the global capital markets damaged? Up to now, the US has maintained its
“safe haven” and reserve currency status. If that were damaged, the shock
would be much bigger.
Our base case remains the same as it has been for over a year: GDP growth
drops to 1% in Q1 and, once the cliff is resolved, growth gradually returns to
trend. We expect the shock to gradually shift out of capital spending into the
consumer. Households have been slow to recognize and react to the cliff and we
expect tax increases to push the growth in real disposable income from 2% to
zero next year. On a positive note, we do not expect a recession. We believe the
private sector has recovered significantly from the 2008-09 crisis and growth
would be above 3% absent the cliff. Hence, in our view, a recession is only likely
either if more than a month is spent entirely over the cliff or if the brinkmanship
battle extends into the second quarter.
not bad
http://news.goldseek.com/COT/1356726762.php
http://news.goldseek.com/COT/
Per TFNN Tom OBrien Gold Report #1 gold timer... not even close to bottom
Happy New Year... no volume whatsoever
Added NUGT long 9.90 on gap fill...
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RGLD was upgraded others followed
ABX
Posted by amillett on 8th of Jan 2013 at 06:06 pm
still headed south
Stocks a bit extended and
A Few Stocks I'm Tracking
Posted by amillett on 7th of Jan 2013 at 07:13 am
short squeeze has blown all shorts out of market.
COT Charts GOLD SILVER DOLLAR
Yamada's chart & commentary on gold
Posted by amillett on 5th of Jan 2013 at 04:51 pm
Shorts covered a tad on GOLD - still MASSIVE Open Interest
http://news.goldseek.com/COT/1357331556.php
Volume ???
ROSG
Posted by amillett on 4th of Jan 2013 at 04:54 pm
Volume ???
Weeks vlume at top on air volume
SPX Intraday Views
Posted by amillett on 4th of Jan 2013 at 04:22 pm
Great holiday currency manipulation by central banks... as China Japan on holiday most of week.
Yen Pairs moonshot.
SPY follows... we'll see how long the farce goes.
Can't fight the Fed.
VIX Traders - WE ARE THERE
GLD and SLV bottoming?
Posted by amillett on 4th of Jan 2013 at 02:49 pm
Chart
http://uppix.net/d/b/8/0495c44d721ca19974b72a0391ec0.jpg
Nice Gold article from this AM
Metals are very weak because?
Posted by amillett on 4th of Jan 2013 at 07:51 am
U.S. Dollar rallies off of support again, as traders rush in to sell Gold & Silver-
2013-01-04 07:32:41-05
CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE The U.S. Dollar has found line (1) to be support over the past year. Over the past few weeks the US$ is moving higher again off of this support. As traders are moving flows towards the US$, selling is taking place in Gold & Silver, creating a series of lower [...]
http://blog.kimblechartingsolutions.com/2013/01/u-s-dollar-rallies-off-of-support-again-as-traders-rush-in-to-sell-gold-silver/
Interest Rates Rise -Dollar rises - Gold ran UP
Metals are very weak because?
Posted by amillett on 4th of Jan 2013 at 07:06 am
for ten years on INVERSE of this situation.
We now go to HIGHER Taxes HIGHER Rates and Middle Class Squeeze.
Gold is headed WAY LOWER at LEAST 50% of 10 12 YR move up
Bond selloff Interest rates spike housing done
Metals are very weak because?
Posted by amillett on 4th of Jan 2013 at 06:07 am
Taxes Up... Gold dumps Where to go ? KING DOLLAR SPIKING GO TO CASH before the CRASH.
30 Year Bond Run is done... US Equities overpriced
Metals are very weak because?
Posted by amillett on 4th of Jan 2013 at 06:01 am
Or Asian Equities - Japan or China ... both countries selling US Bonds buying own equities... FED cannot prop Bond market much longer ... SELL all bonds a crash is possible.
Payroll Tax witholdings Break EXPIRES - TAXES DOUBLE
SPX charts
Posted by amillett on 2nd of Jan 2013 at 01:08 am
By not addressing the payroll tax, the Fiscal Cliff deal will also result in a tax hike for all workers. 50% hike in Witholdings #forex
Merrill Lynch AM Note on cliff
News Items
Posted by amillett on 31st of Dec 2012 at 10:42 am
The clock is ticking
Time is running out. As this note goes to press, the cliff negotiations have
devolved into two unpalatable options: (1) extend just the middle income tax cuts
and extended unemployment benefits and allow about two-thirds of the cliff to
happen, or (2) go over the cliff in the entirety. In our view, given the short time
frame and legislative hurdles, the latter appears much more likely.
Here we look at what we believe are likely scenarios and potential impact of each
on the economy and markets. We reiterate our key calls as follows:
Going over the cliff is not a benign “slope” as some suggest. Rather, it
accelerates the already-building damage to the economy and markets. The
latest evidence is the plunge in consumer confidence. Indeed, this could mark
the beginning of the rotation in the uncertainty shock from businesses to
consumers.
Once the cliff deadline has passed, something has to convince politicians that
what they are doing is not worth the price. Due to reporting lags, the damage
to the economy will only become clear over time. Hence the catalyst for
action will likely need to be market weakness and severe public criticism.
Today the stock market has increasingly become the disciplining force in
spurring action in Washington. “Stock market vigilantes” have replaced “bond
market vigilantes.”
Going over the cliff has many secondary, largely ignored, negative impacts,
including tax changes that could damage the housing recovery, as well as
negatively impact education and alternative energy, among many others.
Over the coming weeks we expect politicians to agree to a series of partial
patches, with some parts of the cliff delayed and others allowed to expire. The
result would be a series of awkward decision points with attendant pressure on
consumer, business and investor confidence. But we continue to believe the cliff
will be mostly resolved before the end of the first quarter. In our view, the biggest
risk to this expectation is a protracted battle over raising the debt ceiling, which
will be reached by late February or early March, after extraordinary measures.
Cliff or slope?
Optimists on the cliff outcome argue that it is a fiscal “slope,” not a cliff. We
believe this view is correct in a limited sense, but wrong in a more fundamental
sense:
The good news is that many of the cuts do not kick in on January 2. Some
tax increases may not be immediately reflected in pay checks. Some
spending programs will wind down slowly as they first use up existing cash
balances. Moreover, even if the economy contracts for a month or two, a
recession usually involves six months or more of decline and if cliff items are
resolved retroactively, the economy could experience a mini-rebound.
The bad news is that in the real world expectations matter and just the
possibility of going over the cliff has already damaged the economy. Capital
spending cooled this year and recent consumer confidence readings have
dropped sharply. Holiday shopping has already disappointed and downside
risks to spending increase the longer the cliff casts its shadow. More on
confidence below.
The ugly news is that going over the cliff reduces the urgency of getting a
deal done. Once the deadline is violated, what induces the two sides to stop
fighting and start compromising? Doesn’t going over the cliff suggest that
each side believes the short term damage from going over the cliff is not as
bad as the long term “damage” of a “bad” compromise? As we have seen in
the past, often very strong outside pressure is likely needed to induce
decisions in Washington. Historically, “bond market vigilantes” have been the
disciplining force in ensuring responsible monetary and fiscal policy; today,
“stock market vigilantes” are playing that role.
What’s next
While the most optimistic scenarios have been eliminated, a wide range of messy
potential outcomes remain:
At this point, the failure to reach a deal means a “clean” grand bargain, where
the two sides quickly compromise on most of the cliff items, is highly unlikely.
There could be a mini-deal, where they extend middle income tax cuts and
extended unemployment benefits and allow the other two-thirds of the cliff to
expire. The hurdles for such a deal are high: they require that Senate leaders
agree, that all 100 Senators agree to expedited legislation, a majority of both
the Senate and the House vote for the legislation and the President signs it.
As such, the most likely outcome, in our humble opinion, is that all the cliff
items expire—a fiscal austerity equivalent to about 4 ½% of GDP. Then in the
coming weeks there are a series of partial patches with some parts of the cliff
retroactively extended and others simply allowed to expire. The result would
be a series of awkward decision points with attendant pressure on consumer,
business and investor confidence.
While we expect to fall off the cliff, we believe the cliff is resolved before the end
of Q1. The impact on the economy will depend on the following factors:
How long do we remain over the cliff? Each week without some resolution
means more delayed spending, increased tax withholding and, most
importantly, a deeper shock to confidence.
How many brinkmanship moments? The cliff is big and complicated. A clean
grand bargain is unlikely, in our view. More likely are a series of smaller deals
that patch up the cliff and prolong the uncertainty shock.
How big is the austerity and does it hit gradually or quickly? One of the most
dangerous things about the cliff is that there is no phase in period — it all
happens in the first year.
How serious is the damage to confidence for consumers, businesses and
investors? So far the scars look relatively mild.
How big a credit downgrade is there and is faith in Treasuries as the core of
the global capital markets damaged? Up to now, the US has maintained its
“safe haven” and reserve currency status. If that were damaged, the shock
would be much bigger.
Our base case remains the same as it has been for over a year: GDP growth
drops to 1% in Q1 and, once the cliff is resolved, growth gradually returns to
trend. We expect the shock to gradually shift out of capital spending into the
consumer. Households have been slow to recognize and react to the cliff and we
expect tax increases to push the growth in real disposable income from 2% to
zero next year. On a positive note, we do not expect a recession. We believe the
private sector has recovered significantly from the 2008-09 crisis and growth
would be above 3% absent the cliff. Hence, in our view, a recession is only likely
either if more than a month is spent entirely over the cliff or if the brinkmanship
battle extends into the second quarter.
Comm'l Gold shortd down 12700 or so
Gold commercial net short
Posted by amillett on 28th of Dec 2012 at 03:36 pm
not bad
COT OUT
Gold commercial net short
Posted by amillett on 28th of Dec 2012 at 03:35 pm
http://news.goldseek.com/COT/1356726762.php
COT Link I use for COT Analysis GOLD
Gold commercial net short
Posted by amillett on 28th of Dec 2012 at 02:50 pm
http://news.goldseek.com/COT/
NUGT Will not be Bought until Noone wants any
ETF Precious metal performance comparison
Posted by amillett on 28th of Dec 2012 at 11:48 am
Per TFNN Tom OBrien Gold Report #1 gold timer... not even close to bottom
Obama picks up Boehner in Ohio - rumour
Where is that CNBC SPX 1550 guy now?? LOL
Posted by amillett on 26th of Dec 2012 at 01:57 pm
Happy New Year... no volume whatsoever
NUGT Long
etf investing
Posted by amillett on 26th of Dec 2012 at 10:59 am
Added NUGT long 9.90 on gap fill...