Billy Idle

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As I was first putting this post together, the weekly jobless claims came out. Last week’s was an historic record. This week’s puts it to shame.

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Prior to the above, the ES has been slowly trying to mount a retracement from yesterday’s devastation, but it fell to pieces when the joblessness news hit the wires.

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One item holding together is gold, which I switched from bearish to bullish on precisely twenty-four hours ago. I will say, however, that there’s a ceiling of resistance at about 1630 it needs to conquer.

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With so much going on, it’s easy to miss posts, so I just wanted to mention in passing, in case you didn’t see it recently, that SlopeCharts now has crossover indicators as well as custom dates.