• Comments for August 29, 2017

    The equities markets have been in a very tight 0.6% range for the past five days. Under these circumstances it is difficult to write anything based on price/volume data.



    The real action is happening in currencies: the US$/Euro broke below its support level (resistance for the Euro). Not sure how and even if equities will react to these moves.





    Gold is moving higher, more on the US$ weakness than on the continuous missile firing in Asia.



    Not much change on the NQ8 or in the small caps yesterday.





    The small caps are outperforming, but I doubt this carries any significance in the current context of a very dull market.



    Conclusions:

    A dull market remains dull until an external event shakes everyone out of their stupor.

    Overnight weakness could be pushing markets more into the red if there is a general belief that Trump will want to "make America great again" by starting a shooting war with NK.


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    PS: There will be no comment tomorrow as I will be going on a small day trip.