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There are two things I turned bullish on when the year began: gold and bonds. Both of these are based on long-term patterns. Short-term, of course, I watch them quite closely anyway.
Bonds, by way of the /ZB futures, have been slowly (very slowly!) strengthening in recent days.
Here are the five big firms reporting Wednesday morning before the opening bell. These all seem to be financial “perma-risers” to me, but click on any of these for a large version. They all seem to be eerily steady.
As we lurch to lifetime highs every day, I stumbled upon something quite curious and interesting that I wanted to share. First we have the S&P 500, which has been cruising up an ascending channel for eleven Fed-induced years.
I wanted to show how a couple of SlopeCharts features can be used together to helpful effect: first, the Price Cone, and second, Option Dots. I’ve used them in the chart below with high-flying stock Tesla. The price cone illustrates the options market’s assessment as to likely price movement in the next 30 days (an enormous range, for obvious reasons) whereas the option dots show the various put and call options available at different price points.
