Trades with cats wrote:Rate hike odds fell hard earlier today. Now Goldman says da Boyz got it wrong, that the jobs number was just high enough to keep September hike on the table.
fwiw.. my messy chart on long term FEDRATE increases vs gold/bonds/USdollar/SPX .. etc. etc.
Last Friday I guessed semi-wrong on the Baker Hughes rig count. I thought trend up would continue, instead it was flat, BUT it grew 3 in the sweet spot (The Permian Basin). Today I am clueless. Media Narrative is mixed. Putin calling for a freeze, big surge in VLCC's headed for CHina but probably trumping everything is the Dollar gyrations. My bottom line is Winter is Coming and there is no short rocket fuel left to ignite so we drift until we get some really bad inventory numbers sometime in the next several weeks.
Rate Hike-
1. Why crash stock market just before an election? What is the crisis after sitting on hands all these years?
2. These people are not slow witted. Explain how over 300,000 new jobs flipping burgers while family supporting wage jobs are flat to declining means a robust economy.
3. If we raise everyone else gets a silent devaluation and we enter a recession even sooner.
4. Real answer is watch the Fed balance sheet, that is the only thing that counts. All this rate talk is right out of Penn and Teller teaching you how to divert the audience attention.
testing ema20 for the 1st time, let's see any buyers here. so far boring day, we stuck in the range.
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ES I am showing a double bottom at 2172 with a lower high at 2176.25 . As active as today has been I'm thinking it will take an hour to get all the way up there and test that breakout level.
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