Things are holding up so far but not much of a bounce in Asia with the Nikkei up 2% but the /NKD FELL from 13,200 back to 12,900, below where we took the money and ran yesterday on the way up! Hang Seng up just 0.4% finished at lows of the day and Shanghai up 0.6%, finished at the high of the day. India went up 1.7% so at least they were happy and I guess we'll call them the tie-breaker.
Europe is up about half a point into lunch EXCEPT Italy, who have been in rally mode – they're flat.
Our Futures are flat as well with the Dollar at 81.12 and oil way up at $97.23, which is why we don't rush to DD or roll – you never know how crazy these upside pushes can get but there are still 128Mb open in July with 4 sessions to trade them and now there are 570Mb stuffed into the next 3 months so yes, we're going to stick with this one!
Gold topped out at $1,395 and back to $1,378, silver $21.67, copper $3.20 (off the floor from $3.16) and Nat gas flat at $3.80, after a mighty push up from $3.72 yesterday and we forgot to go long on gasoline yesterday at $2.80 (every Thursday is a good time to go long on gasoline!) and already back to $2.87 to make sure weekend drivers pay as much as possible at the pump.
Shorting oil/Burr – Always you need discipline with the Futures. If they cross a good line, THEN they're a good short. It would have been fine to play for a rejection at $97 but $97 was crossed so a quick stop-out there and it climbed to $97.30 and then failed to hold $97.25 quickly so that's a little encouraging but I hate playing those .25 lines as they offer very little resistance (that was obvious on the way up) now it's $97.11 so we HOPE they fall back below $97 so we can go short with a good stopping line but, otherwise, the .50 lines are more reliable than the .00 lines so I'd really like to see $97.50 tried, as that would clearly be silly.
President Obama authorized his administration to provide arms to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, after the White House said it had confirmed that Damascus used chemical weapons in the country's civil war.
Speaking of good crosses, watch the Dow, which is failing 15,100 and that's a nice line to short /YM if it falls with very tight stops over the line and, as above, $97 is the good short line on /CL – also with tight stops over as this market is still TECHNICALLY in bull mode (but Fundamentally, nothing has changed).
Many investors have lowered their expectations for future inflation, a shift that could get the attention of Fed officials as they consider the course of their bond-buying program at a policy meeting next week.
June 14th, 2013 at 5:26 am
Good morning!
Things are holding up so far but not much of a bounce in Asia with the Nikkei up 2% but the /NKD FELL from 13,200 back to 12,900, below where we took the money and ran yesterday on the way up! Hang Seng up just 0.4% finished at lows of the day and Shanghai up 0.6%, finished at the high of the day. India went up 1.7% so at least they were happy and I guess we'll call them the tie-breaker.
Europe is up about half a point into lunch EXCEPT Italy, who have been in rally mode – they're flat.
Our Futures are flat as well with the Dollar at 81.12 and oil way up at $97.23, which is why we don't rush to DD or roll – you never know how crazy these upside pushes can get but there are still 128Mb open in July with 4 sessions to trade them and now there are 570Mb stuffed into the next 3 months so yes, we're going to stick with this one!
Gold topped out at $1,395 and back to $1,378, silver $21.67, copper $3.20 (off the floor from $3.16) and Nat gas flat at $3.80, after a mighty push up from $3.72 yesterday and we forgot to go long on gasoline yesterday at $2.80 (every Thursday is a good time to go long on gasoline!) and already back to $2.87 to make sure weekend drivers pay as much as possible at the pump.
Shorting oil/Burr – Always you need discipline with the Futures. If they cross a good line, THEN they're a good short. It would have been fine to play for a rejection at $97 but $97 was crossed so a quick stop-out there and it climbed to $97.30 and then failed to hold $97.25 quickly so that's a little encouraging but I hate playing those .25 lines as they offer very little resistance (that was obvious on the way up) now it's $97.11 so we HOPE they fall back below $97 so we can go short with a good stopping line but, otherwise, the .50 lines are more reliable than the .00 lines so I'd really like to see $97.50 tried, as that would clearly be silly.
Oh and McCain wins!