Gravity sucks – ASML
October 17, 2024 Leave a comment
Yesterday, the ASML share price completed a reversion to its 200 week moving average.
Soon, I’ll be re-buying it.
October 17, 2024
All time highs doesn’t mean bubble
October 14, 2024 Leave a comment
The Nasdaq 100 is stretched but not bubbly
October 14, 2024
Macro Extremes (week ending October 11, 2024)
October 13, 2024 Leave a comment
A weekly Macro, Cross Asset review of prices trading at extremes which may generate future investment ideas and opportunities.
The following assets (on a weekly timeframe) either registered an Overbought or Oversold reading and/or have traded more than 2.5 standard deviations above or below its rolling mean.
* denotes multiple week inclusion
Extremes above the Mean (at least 2.5 standard deviations)
Brazilian and Turkish 10 year government bond yield
U.S. 5 year bond yield minus the U.S. inflation rate (YoY) spread
U.S. 10 year bond yield minus the U.S. inflation rate (YoY) spread
Shanghai Composite *
CSI 300 *
HSCEI *
Hang Seng *
Nasdaq Transports
And Australia’s ASX Small Caps *
Overbought (RSI > 70)
Middle East Urea *
Gold as priced in AUD, CAD, CHF, EUR, GBP & USD *
Dow Jones Industrials
And Toronto’s TSX *
The Overbought Quinella (Both Overbought and Traded at > 2.5 standard deviations above the weekly mean)
Pakistan’s KSE *
Extremes below the Mean (at least 2.5 standard deviations)
None
Oversold (RSI < 30)
U.S. 3 month government bill yield *
Australian Coking Coal
U.S. Midwest Hot Rolled Coil Steel *
North European Hot Rolled Coil Steel *
Lithium Carbonate *
Lithium Hydroxide *
The Oversold Quinella (Both Oversold and Traded at < 2.5 standard deviations below the weekly mean)
None
Notes & Ideas:
Broadly, it was a week to ‘leave the bat on the shoulder’ and there was nothing to do.
Global government bond yields mildly rise, adding to last week’s move.
Yields across the UK and U.S. curve are in a 4 week rising streak.
The US minus German 10 year spread has also risen for 4 consecutive weeks.
While the US 5 year breakeven inflation rate and and the US 5 year yield minus US 3 month bill spread have both risen for 5 weeks.
U.S. 2’s are their highest weekly close in 2 months.
Equities were mixed.
Understandably, Chinese and Hong Kong indices gave up some of the previous weeks gains.
Last week, I wrote that around July 2020 – February 2021 was the last time we saw Chinese A50, CSI 300 and Shanghai Composite register an overbought quinella.
This week, they only appear in the overbought category because they traded up to their 2.5 standard deviation mark early in the week.
In addition, the China A50, HSCEI, Hang Seng and Egyptian indices had bearish outside reversal weeks.
DJ Industrials notable entrant in overbought this week.
The Nasdaq Composite has put together a 5 week winning streak as have the S&P MidCap 400, Nasdaq 100, S&P 500 and the TSX.
The Philippines PSE winning run ended at 5 weeks.
And Thailand’s SET is closing in on a overbought quinella reading.
Commodities were the busiest of the 4 assets classes featured in Macro Extremes.
The bia was slightly tilted to weakness.
Gold across various currencies remains overbought.
Silver and Sugar aren’t overbought this week.
Coking Coal joins Steel prices in oversold territory.
The Baltic Dry Index has fallen 15% over the past fortnight.
Lean Hogs are in a 5 week winning streak.
Sugar, Tin, Nickel and CRB Index all broke their 4 week winning streaks.
U.S.Midwest Hot Rolled Coil Steel has spent 20 weeks being oversold.
And Lithium Hydroxide has now spent 65 consecutive weeks in weekly oversold territory.
Currencies action was dominated by U.S. strength, again.
The DXY Index is at its highest close in 2 months.
All currency pairs which are appeared in last week’s edition no longer appear.
The Aussie fell while the Swiss rose.
The Yen also rose, albeit slightly.
CHF/AUD broke its 4 week losing streak and AUD/EUR broke its 4 week rising run.
And the British Pound was flat to slightly lower.
The larger advancers over the past week comprised of;
Cocoa 9.5%, WTI Crude Oil 1.6%, Heating Oil 1.4%, Lithium Hydroxide 1.7%, Orange Juice 2.3%, Palladium 7.1%, Gasoline 2.7%, Rubber 1.6%, Gold in CAD 1.5%, Wheat 1.6%, KBW Bank Index 4%, Dow Jones Transports 2.7%, MIB 2.1%, TAIEX 2.7%, KRE Regional Banks 3.9%, KSE 2.3%, S&P Midcap 400 1.2%, Nikkei 225 2.5%, Copenhagen 1.4%, SET 1.8%, SOX 2.5%, Nasdaq Transports 2.7%, WIG 1.8%, ASX Financials 2.4% and the ASX Small Caps rose 2.5%.
The group of largest decliners from the week included;
Australian Coking Coal (4.5%), Rotterdam Coal (2.1%), Bloomberg Commodity Index (1.3%), Baltic Dry Index (6.2%), China Coking Coal (4.3%), North European Hot Rolled Coiled Steel (1.8%), Copper (1.8%), US Midwest Hot Rolled Coiled Steel (2.6%), Arabica Coffee (2.1%), Tin (4.1%), Natural Gas (7.8%), Nickel (2.9%), Shanghai Rebar (1.9%), Robusta Coffee (4.7%), Sugar (3.4%), Dutch TTF Gas (2.7%), Middle East Urea (2%), Silver in AUD (1.4%), Silver in USD (2.1%), Corn (2.1%), Oats (2.2%), Soybeans (3.1%), Shanghai Composite (3.6%), CSI 300 (3.3%), China A50 (10.6%), Egypt (3%), HSCEI (6.6%), Hang Seng (6.5%), MOEX (1.8%), PSE (2.1%), BIST (2.6%) and the ASX Materials Index fell 1.4%.
October 13, 2024
by Rob Zdravevski
A dangerous market which can rip higher
October 9, 2024 Leave a comment
My latest newsletter discusses how a stretched, full valued equities market can still ‘rip’ higher.
“shenanigans in the late hours of this current party (cycle) is when things become dangerous.
It’s also often when the most fun is had.”
The link to read and subscribe is below.
Macro Extremes (week ending October 4th, 2024)
October 6, 2024 Leave a comment
A weekly Macro, Cross Asset review of prices trading at extremes which may generate future investment ideas and opportunities.
The following assets (on a weekly timeframe) either registered an Overbought or Oversold reading and/or have traded more than 2.5 standard deviations above or below its rolling mean.
* denotes multiple week inclusion
Extremes above the Mean (at least 2.5 standard deviations)
Turkish 10 year government bond yield
U.S. 10 year bond yield minus the U.S. inflation rate (YoY) spread
Silver in AUD & USD *
AUD/CAD *
AUD/INR *
AUD/USD *
BIST
And Australia’s ASX Small Caps *
Overbought (RSI > 70)
Sugar *
Urea (Middle East and U.S. Gulf)
Gold as priced in AUD, CAD & USD *
MYR/USD *
Egypt
Karachi *
Philippines PSE *
And Toronto’s TSX
The Overbought Quinella (Both Overbought and Traded at > 2.5 standard deviations above the weekly mean)
Gold in CHF, EUR & GBP
Shanghai Composite
CSI 300
HSCEI *
Hang Seng *
Extremes below the Mean (at least 2.5 standard deviations)
CAD/AUD *
EUR/GBP *
Oversold (RSI < 30)
U.S. 3 month government bill yield *
U.S. Midwest Hot Rolled Coil Steel *
North European Hot Rolled Coil Steel *
Lithium Carbonate *
Lithium Hydroxide *
The Oversold Quinella (Both Oversold and Traded at < 2.5 standard deviations below the weekly mean)
None
Notes & Ideas:
Broadly, many things that were trading at ‘extremes’ last week, are no longer so, this week.
Global government bond yields rose.
Yields across the UK curve are in a 3 week rising streak.
Japanese yields rose strongly, recovering last weeks decline.
Commensurate to bond yields being oversold recently, inversely, this publication listed iShares 1-3 year Bond ETF (SHY) being overbought. It was implying to consider the antithesis of being long bonds. This past week, SHY fell 1%. This gave up 33% of the capital gain seen over the past 6 months.
U.S. 2’s are their highest weekly close in 2 months.
The U.S. 5 year yield minus the 3 month bill spread has climbed for 4 straight weeks.
And various U.S. yield spreads listed last week have broken their 6 week rising streak.
Equities were mainly lower, contrary to any bullish feelings being felt.
The pocket of strength was contained to Chinese and Hong Kong indices.
In fact, the Chinese market was only open on Monday.
The July 2020 – February 2021 period was the last time we saw Chinese A50, CSI 300 and Shanghai Composite register an overbought quinella.
The Nasdaq Composite has put together a 4 week winning streak.
The Philippines PSE is in a 5 week winning run.
The ASX Financials Index has fallen 6.5% in the past fortnight after being overbought in the week prior.
And Toronto’s TSX makes a return to overbought territory.
Commodities were mixed, although the indices strength due to their weighting to energy contracts.
The Bloomberg Commodity Index has risen 8.6% over the past 4 weeks.
Gold across various currencies remains overbought as does Silver.
Urea is a new overbought entrant.
Coffee isn’t overbought anymore.
Cocoa and Shipping Rates took a shellacking.
While Coking Coal prices bounced out from oversold territory.
Sugar, Tin, Nickel and CRB Index are in 4 week winning streaks, while Natural Gas its.
Shanghai Rebar prices have soared 15% over the past 2 weeks.
Soybeans broke its 6 consecutive weeks of positive closes.
U.S.Midwest Hot Rolled Coil Steel has spent 19 weeks being oversold.
And Lithium Hydroxide has now spent 64 consecutive weeks in weekly oversold territory.
Currencies action was dominated by U.S. strength.
The DXY Index broke its 4 week losing streak and rose 2%.
Hence I had a confusing read of currencies during the week.
Risk-off was seen in equities but the AUD and CAD rose.
And the Yen fell.
CHF/AUD has fallen for 4 consecutive weeks.
The AUD has risen for 4 weeks against the Euro.
The GBP was generally weaker.
And the THB/USD is no longer overbought as the Thai Baht broke its 4 weeks rising trend, falling 3% against the USD.
The larger advancers over the past week comprised of;
Australian Coking Coal 19.7%, Rotterdam Coal 3.2%, Bloomberg Commodity Index 1.8%, WTI Crude Oil 9.1%, DXY Index 2.1%, Lean Hogs 2.4%, Heating Oil 7.5%, Tin 4.1%, Newcastle Coal 2.3%, Nickel 5.7%, Gasoline 8.8%, Shanghai Rebar 12.1%, S&P GSCI 4.6%, CRB Index 2%, Dutch TTF Gas 6.2%, Urea U.S. Gulf 3.9%, Brent Crude Oil 8.5%, Gasoil 8.4%, Urea Middle East 5.3%, Silver in AUD 3.4%, Silver in USD 1.8%, Gold in CHF 1.9%, Gold in GBP 1.7%, Gold in ZAR 2%, Corn 1.6%, Wheat 1.7%, Shanghai Composite 8.1%, CSI 300 8.5%, China A50 16.3%, HSCEI 11.7%, Hang Seng 10.7%, KSE 2.8% and Oslo rose 3%.
The group of largest decliners from the week included;
Baltic Dry Index (8.6%), Cocoa (14.6%), Arabica Coffee (4.4%), Lumber (1.9%), Lithium Carbonate (5.6%), Lithium Hydroxide (5.1%), Natural Gas (1.7%), Palladium (2.4%), Platinum (2%), Robusta Coffee (7.6%), Rubber (1.6%), Soybeans (2.6%), All World Developed ex USA (3.5%), Budapest (1.5%), CAC (3.2%), DAX (1.8%), DJ Transports (2.3%), MIB (3.3%), IBEX (2.6%), IDX (2.8%), MOEX (1.9%), TAEIX (2.3%), KLSE (1.8%), KOSPI (3%), FTSE 250 (1.6%), Nikkei 225 (3%), NIFTY (4.5%), Copenhagen (2.3%), SENSEX (4.5%), SMI (1.9%), Vietnam (1.6%), BIST (6.8%) and the ASX Financials fell 2%.
October 6, 2024
by Rob Zdravevski
Out of Chinese stocks
October 5, 2024 Leave a comment
I have now exited all (except for one) Chinese related equities.
Years ago, when equity markets were in the doldrums, I would hear people tell me how they would gladly accept a 7% return in a given year.
Over the past 3 weeks, some Chinese/HK stocks and indices have risen 30%.
I bet if many or any caught one-third of that gain, they wouldn’t pack up for the next 12 months and stay away from the markets…….
Extremes in the real cash rate
October 2, 2024 Leave a comment
Watching when the spread in the study below trades at extremes can assist validating the continuation or waning of a trend in the S&P 500.
That spread is nearing oversold territory.
October 2, 2024
The robots won’t take away jobs
October 2, 2024 Leave a comment
On the topic that new technologies (or AI, perhaps) will take away jobs….
Approximately 85% of employment growth in the last 80 years can be attributed to new technologies.
Today, nearly 60% of workers are engaged in jobs that did not exist in 194
source: The Labor Market Impacts of Technological Change: From Unbridled Enthusiasm to Qualified Optimism to Vast Uncertainty (David Autor, 2022).
Interest Rates nearing their lows
October 1, 2024 Leave a comment
Broadly, interest rates (2 year government bond yields) are now between 20% and 25% below their peaks and are trading at levels last seen 18-24 months ago.
I think it’s near time for many to re-finance their debt.
From here on in, those companies still carrying much debt, better be seen to pay lower interest expenses over the coming years.
Following liquidity and capital flow
September 30, 2024 Leave a comment
This study shows the 6 times (over the past 30 years) that the U.S. inflation rate (blue line) has been oversold. It’s nearing a 7th occurrence.
It dances with the S&P 500 (orange) and the U.S. 2 year bond (green) yield.
As inflation rises, bond yields rise because bonds are being sold. This can be paraphased as an increase in #liquidity.
When bonds are sold, money tends to finds it way into equities.
In this week’s edition of Macro Extremes, the U.S. 2’s appear in the oversold category.
September 30, 2024
by Rob Zdravevski
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