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Chart of the Day

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“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.” – Will Rogers
As discussed in our Latest Weekly Outlook video, one of the most important charts to keep an eye on this week remains the DXY. As we have been repeatedly highlighting, it was not a question of ‘if’ Trump was going to comment on currency moves and the strong dollar but just a question on ‘when’. Heads up for more headline risk as we don’t expect Trump to back down and especially as we get closer to Jackson Hole.
No change to our outlook on equities, our focus remains on tech weakness and remember to keep and eye on GOLD and SWISSY as positioning there could really spark some interesting moves.
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Mid-Week Update

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“Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don’t confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Summer chop continues even if we do have Elon trying to make this more interesting. If you want to take the other side of Mr. Musk, after yesterday, your risk is pretty much defined at 420 and most likely, at a 10% discount to that number in the short-term 😉 We’ll discuss this in more detail in the webinar session later on today.
Short post as not change to our latest Weekly Outlook Video (nice action in Aussie & Kiwi so far) and yesterday’s blog post. Charts for today > updated NQ at the pivotal gap-fill level and DXY at the magical 95 mark.
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Chart of the Day

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“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” – Winston Churchill
Welcome to the summer chop. As discussed in our latest Weekly Outlook Video, the main risk remains in the form of headlines and developments out of the whole US tariff debacle.
Unfortunately there is very little to add to what we already discussed. At this point we just have to accept that we are in the middle of the summer doldrums and that it’s important to understand that even if markets can probe/extend moves in this low volume chop, all that matters is follow-through and what happens once real volumes come back into the markets.
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Chart of the Day

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“As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.” – Denis Waitley
Another key day ahead of us as we head into NFP and ISM.
Once again markets seem to be ignoring mounting tensions with China and general tensions around Washington. We continue to think that this is a major event risk and that the situation needs to be monitored as it can very easily and quickly escalate. Keep and eye on China retaliation (it’s not a question on *if* but rather just a question of when) and Asia markets (ugly sell-off across the board and especially USDCNH pressing for the 7 mark).
The most important chart to keep an eye on is the DXY. We are pressing that 95 mark again and a break and weekly close above has the potential to trigger aggressive moves with multiple structural repercussions for many asset classes.
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On the Radar

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“Those who consider the inessential to be essential, and see the essential as inessential, don’t reach the essential, living in the field of wrong intention”
– Gautama Buddha
Not much has changed as we wait for BOE today and NFP / ISM tomorrow. We have attached to two main charts we would be keeping an eye on to get a feel is the ramp attempts in equities have any legs. We’ll stick with our base-case scenario that equities are still in a complex topping process and that we have already seen the highs in quite a few of the charts. Again, don’t forget to keep and eye on bonds!
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Chart of the Day

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“A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It’s the testing point of our character and competence.” – Stephen Covey
No change to what we discussed in our latest weekly outlook video. Over all we are still chopping around in recent ranges and we’ll have to see what we get with a lot more interesting data points, the Fed and NFP to close out the week. However, rest assured, trade wars remain the real canary in the goldmine, heads-up for anything hitting the headlines. We still think this is going to get worse before it has a chance of getting better.
Today’s focus will be on AAPL that is set to open at new ATHs close to the 200 mark. If you really stop and think about it, it’s pretty pathetic that what we’ve come to is the Bulls looking at one single company to save the current correction and take all equities back up to ATH. We continue to believe something structural changed after the Netflix release and our base-case is still that this broader correction still has room to run. More on this in today’s session…
Again, don’t forget to keep and eye on USDCNH/GOLD and the bonds.
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Chart of the Day

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“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.” – Charles Mackay
There are simply too many interesting charts out there to include in a single blog post but we tried to quickly run through the most interesting ones in our latest video update. If you missed it, make sure you check out our latest weekly outlook video.
The focus today will be on the BOJ, month end flows, the Fed’s SOMA operations and on if Apple can save the day when it releases earnings after market close.
No change to our base-case assumptions as the charts keep on hovering around key pivotal levels: ES @ 2800 and DXY @ 95.  Don’t forget to keep and eye on FANG action, USDCNH/GOLD and the bonds post the BOJ presser.
Let’s see how this NQ monthly closes…

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Charts of the Day

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“Have you ever had that moment when you looked back on something and said, ‘Well, gosh, that seems obvious now… why didn’t I see it then?’ I like to call this the Face Palm Epiphany. Oh, hindsight, you magical, humbling thing.” – Alethea Konti
A lot of moving parts today as we head into this GDP print and the end of the week.
Here are the key charts we will be reviewing and discussing today:
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Risk Happens Fast

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“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure.” – Andy Grove
As we have be warning, the risk of ‘velocity of move’ is to the downside. Not going to go on about how complacent markets are but simply highlight the FaceBook chart today. Our base-case following the whole #DeleteFacebook debacle was that it had put in a substantial top and that is was going to be very hard for FB to recover in the near future as the dynamics and underlying business was going to have to change. Obviously, we were wrong as the market had other plans but that’s not the lesson here (btw, we did not short it as we know better than to short single stock names, especially tech). The key point and one that we continually stress is that these low liquidity machine fueled ramps have a strong tendency to give back the move in a fraction of the time it took the ramp to complete.
It is going to be very interesting to see if this GDP print on Friday is really going to be the cycle top and as good as it can get. Furthermore, don’t forget that we still have a lot of earnings out. Most notably, Tesla (another accident waiting to happen) and Amazon (can it buy the market some more time).
Reminder > don’t forget it’s Super Mario Day (focus on guidance), keep an eye on USDCNH (key for USD and more importantly for GOLD/metals) and don’t forget to keep the Bonds on your radar.
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Wishing you a great day ahead.