• Comments for January 30, 2018

    Yesterday, markets continued to weaken, but did not really break down. We can see below that although the Cumulative Tick continued to be negative, but the NQ8 only moved sideways.





    Defensive sectors were also weak yesterday, cancelling their tentative bounce of last week.





    Treasuries continued to be sold, which pushed rates higher.



    However, all the commodity-based sectors were rather negative, as the US$ tried to bounce.



    We can see that the US$ tried to bounce yesterday, while the Euro and the Yen were somewhat weaker.



    As I write, the Euro/US$ just spiked up.

    Equities look weak and could open on a downgap.

    Conclusions:

    It seems that we should expect volatility today and tomorrow due to the FOMC announcement. Not sure that I want to buy equities weakness ahead of the announcement.

    Even CELG, which was possibly the only stock on my buy list, was very weak yesterday.