
That ’70s Show

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The market in recent days has been, for me, uninspiring. I’m far more engaged with my novel-writing than I am these exasperating financial markets, but the show must go on – – – so I went through my entire watch list of futures and have plucked out the charts I found at least a little interesting. I’ve watermarked them with descriptions so you know what’s what:

Every single item on my futures watch list is deep in the green today, which is annoying with some important exception: gold. Here we see GLD has mustered past its most recent (albeit small) basing pattern and is chipping away at that Ukraine Peak (which formerly had pushed futures to nearly $2100):
