Tuesday, November 1, 2011

I Hope We Didn't Forget About the $USD

It's true, the negative divergence in the market was long and was very deep (which doesn't bode well for the future of the market). In looking at charts, confirmation is important and I brought the dollar up several times. I hope we didn't forget about it or fail to realize the importance of what we were seeing. Remember, the market and most commodities have an inverse correlation to the $USD, meaning a strong dollar means a weak market and thus the Global currency race to the bottom to protect each countries markets, just like Japan Sunday night.

 This is the bullish descending wedge in price I pointed out in the US Dollar Index (50% of the Index is weighted by the Euro as the single most important currency in the basket). There was also a leading positive 3C divergence, this essentially is a very big warning of very bad things to come (barring interventionist policies that are effective).


 The current formation is almost a twin of the 2009 formation which rallied 20%, but didn't have the same disastrous effect on the market due to ongoing POMO and other "FAD" intervention. With the current correlations in place, this is a grim warning.


 Intraday UUP 15 min has seen a very big positive leading divergence and wouldn't you know it, the last thing it did was break support and hit new lows in a head fake before launching up.

The 30 min chart is hugely leading positive.

This is more of a macro picture, but an ugly one.

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