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Building Negative Divergence

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SPX made a marginal new high this morning and that has somewhat changed the picture from when I was doing the charts below over the weekend. There are now fixed 60min sell signals on all of ES, NQ and TF, and while I’m still favoring a retracement and a bit higher to set up decent sell signals on the RTH 60min charts, there is now a higher risk that won’t happen, and that SPX starts the retracement I’m expecting directly from here.

There are now also fixed RSI 14 sell signals on all of the SPX, NDX and RUT 60min and 15min charts apart from the NDX 60min chart so if we see a hard support break then the main retrace may have started.

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Crude Bounces to Retracement

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As expected, crude has been fighting its way back, and this morning it made things easy by nailing retracement perfectly (see green tinted area). I guess the chatter about a new OPEC meeting (remember those?) gave things a boost. I’m staying at a distance, however, since I think strength to the next level higher (about $45) is still possible, as the meaningful topping pattern (magenta tint) is still one Fibonacci level higher.

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“Gold Counter Cyclical?”

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The title of this segment is actually the subject line of an email sent by subscriber ‘RK’ on Friday, after the post-Payrolls update that included the following statement that RK questioned. From the update…

“Gold is getting clobbered as it should. Let’s please keep it real, because a lot of gold bugs are not going to. The case for gold, silver and commodities rests on an inflationary phase, which strong jobs and wages would indicate out ahead. But for now, the hit to the precious metals is logical.”

The case for commodities (cyclical) always rested on an inflationary phase, but in noting that the same is true for gold it appears that we have deviated from the preferred case for a strong, longer-term precious gold bull; and indeed we have. The point I have been making as the Semiconductor Equipment cycle went positive a few months ago and gold broke down vs. palladium more recently, is that cyclical forces are at work now. That would not be the preferred fundamental environment for gold or gold miners. (more…)