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Hey, the market’s going to be boring for a little while, if you’re a bear. Comment cleaner time!
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As you can see from all the green splashed on your quote screen, the central bankers of the world have already panicked and are running around screaming their heads off, quickly undoing their feeble efforts at quantitative tightening and reverting to their multi-decade playbook of endless quantitative easing.
Let’s look at our own Federal Reserve’s monstrous balance sheet and see just how far their loudly-touted QT efforts have gone. You can plainly see here the many trillions of dollars they’ve gobbled up over the years. You can also make out, just barely, the subtle little softening of growth in recent months, as they ever-ever-ever-so-slowly bleed off a teeny-tiny bit of their trillions.
It occurred to me that even though the Socialtrade portion of Slope is one of the oldest and most unique features here, many of you have no idea what it is. I wanted to remedy that, so I’ve created a simple Guide to SocialTrade, which I encourage you to read, and once you have, browse the stacks!
Yesterday evening, word came out that Apple was dialing back on its iPhone production, because apparently the people of Earth decided that having a 17th camera lens on the back of their phones was something they could probably do without. Thus the /NQ sold off hard, and the /ES got to a new low for the year at about 3600.