Among the best questions I acquired requested this week was “How will you be lengthy gold and lengthy semiconductors on the similar time?” And I’ve a easy reply for that.

We like to take a place based mostly on the macro, which is why gold has been so compelling. Nonetheless, the algorithms have additionally added up for semiconductors. Plus, the algos lastly adopted the macro evaluation and instructed us to purchase gold. So, it is all the time a mix of artwork and math, with threat parameters the fixed function for each.

The market is in a really fascinating spot proper now. 3 ratios are telling us 3 totally different tales. The primary ratio is the one between lengthy bonds (TLT) and the S&P 500 (SPY). With lengthy bonds outperforming the SPY, the requires recession are throughout. Nevertheless, the softening of the yields additionally indicators extra QE and emboldens the expansion shares. And that is within the face of one other fee hike by the Fed this previous week.

Wait, there’s extra.

The following ratio is the one between silver and gold.

Silver is outperforming gold, which is inflationary. Because it additionally signifies that silver, a extra industrial steel, is sweet for the financial system, it implies that there’s not a recession on the horizon. In the meantime, if silver continues to outperform, it additionally means demand for the steel is rising whereas provide might not be (therefore the ratio). Which means inflationary.

Add the TLT:SPY and the SLV:GLD ratios collectively, and you’ll see why that is such a tough macro atmosphere to determine. And why we love the maths.

To this point, recession and inflation on the similar time, nonetheless means stagflation.

After which there may be the greenback.

Though, traditionally, the greenback rising and gold rising have been identified to occur concurrently, we’re trying on the greenback to the Euro for clues. The greenback usually goes up when rates of interest do. However this previous week, the greenback closed decrease WoW.

Is the greenback sniffing a pause by the Fed? A foreign money disaster? An anticlimactic finish to the banking points with authorities rescues?

If any of these eventualities come to go, it should proceed to be nice for semiconductors. And might nonetheless be bullish for gold and inflation. At 1.08, the greenback is sort of at par with the Euro.

Therefore, this coming week, we’ll proceed to observe what the bonds (closed unchanged WoW) do versus the SPY (closed larger WoW). We’ll see if silver’s efficiency (closed larger WoW) stays dominant over gold’s (closed unchanged WoW) efficiency. And, with information (on the backburner) about Iran, Russia, and China nonetheless a factor, we’ll watch the greenback and the way it performs in opposition to the Euro. Any main continuation or shift in these 3 key ratios, ought to assist us see not solely the macro (extra of an artwork) but in addition the sector energy (extra about science).

One factor no person can deny–the resiliency of the indices within the face of the persistent buying and selling vary.

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Could 2-5: StockCharts TV Market Outlook

• S&P 500 (SPY): Might be the beginning of shallower rallies, must clear 400 and maintain 390.
• Russell 2000 (IWM): 170 held, so perhaps the ratios are implying no recession in spite of everything.
• Dow (DIA): 325 key to clear.
• Nasdaq (QQQ): Nonetheless must clear the Feb excessive. 305 help, 320 resistance.
• Regional banks (KRE): 35 help, 44 resistance.
• Semiconductors (SMH): Might be the beginning of a key reversal w/ 250 help.
• Transportation (IYT): A weekly shut underneath 219, so watch right here for this week.
• Biotechnology (IBB): Held key help at 125 space.
• Retail (XRT): Granny held 60; nonetheless within the sport, particularly since that’s the January calendar vary low.

Mish Schneider

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