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05 Jun: TLT Weekly

TLT provides exposure to long-dated Treasuries, an asset class that is light on credit risk but may offer attractive yields thanks to an extended duration and therefore material interest rate risk. TLT might not be a core holding in a buy-and-hold portfolio, as long-term Treasuries are included in broader-based bond funds such as AGG and BND. But for those looking to extend the duration of their portfolio and potentially enhance the current return offered, this can be a useful product. TLT is efficient from a cost perspective, offers exposure to hundreds of individual securities, and delivers impressive liquidity to those looking to execute a trade quickly.

05 Jun: TNX Weekly

TNX is the 10YR Treasure Yield Index (Weekly), which is essentially inverse actual bond prices. To convert to actual yield move the decimal place over one place to the left. TNX is also inverse the TLT for those trading TLT its a great barometer for what bond ETFs will do next. TNX is heavily dependent on Federal Reserve policy & is sensitive on FOMC & Fed days.

05 Jun: TNX Daily

TNX is the 10YR Treasure Yield Index (Daily), which is essentially inverse actual bond prices. To convert to actual yield move the decimal place over one place to the left. TNX is also inverse the TLT for those trading TLT its a great barometer for what bond ETFs will do next. TNX is heavily dependent on Federal Reserve policy & is sensitive on FOMC & Fed days.

05 Jun: NYMO/SPX200

NYMO & SPX200R are excellent momentum indicators that provide a peek “under the hood” of what happening beneath the surface to monitor what real market breadth is signalling. Depending on how the charts look, they provide insight whether a rally is “narrow” or “broad” depending on how many stocks are actually participating in an advance…

05 Jun: Put/Call Ratio

CPC is the put/call ratio for option markets. It is one of the most important indicators for determining market participants positioning in aggregate. If a market is heavily bearish, typically that means its sensitive to massive bear rally rips upward. Inverse is true when markets are fully long, quick abrupt drawdowns can occur as the positioning is so heavily skewed.

04 Jun: Copper

Commodity Exchange: At the COMEX—a member of the CME Group—a standard copper futures contract represents 25,000 pounds of copper, while the mini-copper futures represents 12,500 pounds of copper. These contracts trade Sunday-Friday between 6:00 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. (CST). This means investors can make a play for approximately 23 hours every day (there is a 45-minute break period between each day).

04 Jun: WTI/GOLD Ratio

WTI:GOLD comparison chart is one of my favorite macro crude oil charts to look at because it provides a true GLOBAL price of oil adjusted to an entirely outside the entire world of currencies, not just USD itself!  Once we take a look at the chart above we see just how RARE this drop on crude price in Gold bars is on a relative basis… needless to say this is a generational low.  the bigger issue is its running out of downside room so the bottom is approaching soon…

04 Jun: Gold/DXY Ratio

The “Global Price” of Gold, this ratio compared Gold to the entire basket of USD currencies.  As I have proved earlier this year Gold had already broken the DXY ratio relationship, and this usually happens at major peaks of this ratio (hence why it breaks).  If you notice this peak was at a lower level of 22:1