After France reported a miss in both its manufacturing and industrial production numbers (-1.0% and -0.9%, on expectations of -0.5% and -0.3%, from priors of 0.8% and 0.7%) did nothing for the EUR pairs, it was Germany who announce March factory orders which beat expectations of a -0.5% solidly, and remained unchanged at 2.2%, the same as in February. Germany is happy with a stronger EUR, Merkel will be delighted with the outcome while all other European exporters will once again come back to Draghi and demand more jawboning, which they will certainly get complaining the EUR is still too high, not for Germany. This moved the EUR/USD overnight...
You can see the EUR/USD's current 3C position looks like Draghi and ECB FX traders have been chipping away at the strength, I expect it will fall.
However the solid performance for the pair sent Index Futures like ES above and NQ below, higher, both of them also look similar to the Euro going in to the open, negative divergences.
NQ.
The positive in the $USD would tend to confirm that as it is a market negaitve just like the EUR/USD falling.
The Yen doesn't look like it will help support the market either. Also overnight and not much of a surprise, the Australian Central bank, RBA cut rates to a new record low of 2.75% from 3%, which isn't surprising given their wait and see attitude and what they've seen (especially yesterday, wasn't good. The AUD fell and keeps falling, it will not support risk in the markets either.
Today may be the day we get that red Bearish engulfing candle I drew in for the SPX early this week, the start is the first part, check, the divergences are the next step, check. We'll be watching for early opportunities.
Many of the charts you see here at WOWS are my proprietary indicator 3C which reveals underlying institutional money movements and often contradicts price. To understand the annotations made on charts, you must first understand that 3C has no numerical value, it is a pure divergence indicator. Positive divergences represent accumulation by smart money, negative divergences represent distribution by smart money and when 3C trades with price, that is trend confirmation.
The chart annotation system is simple; white arrows represent relative positive divergences, red arrows represent relative negative divergences and green arrows represent trend confirmation. When 3C is in a white or red box, that represents a leading positive or negative divergence, leading divergences are the most powerful.
We analyse 3C in multiple timeframes, the longer the timeframe the stronger the accumulation. 1-2 min timeframes represent intraday moves, a 5 min timeframe can represent a day or two and 15 min timeframes average trends of a swing trade nature. 30 and 60 min charts can move the market for a month or more and daily charts can be over a year.
You'll get use to seeing the charts and understanding how the multiple timeframe analysis works and works well.
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Futures Update BR-EXIT Edition
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So the conventional wisdom couldn't have been more wrong. Those chasing
risk and closing hedges couldn't be in a worse place right now. I would
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