Early Morning Outlook

Broader Outlook

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“The strong point in poker is never to lose your temper, either with those you are playing with or, more particularly, with the cards. There is no sympathy in poker. Always keep cool. If you lose your head you will lose all your chips.” – William J. Florence
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Early Morning Outlook

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“The first rule of trading – there are probably many first rules – is don’t get caught in a situation in which you can lose a great deal of money for reasons you don’t understand.” – Bruce Kovner
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Early Morning Outlook

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“We know that the random element in the market represents at least 40 to 60 percent activity. Therefore, it’s not logical to look at every tick or to think that every tick or every chart formation has meaning. They don’t. There are too many traders trying to look at the markets from too stringent an analytical viewpoint. Most of what happens in the markets is meaningless. Why try to interpret every little movement, every little reversal, every little tick? In trying to do too much, they’re actually paying too much attention to the market. You have to keep a distance from the market. Only then will you have the psychological resources to let your profits ride. You won’t be looking at every tick and interpreting it in a fearful way.” – Jake Bernstein
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Early Morning Update

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“If you are a successful game player, it can be a fascinating, consuming, totally absorbing experience; in fact it has to be. If it is not totally absorbing, you are not likely to be among the most successful because you are competing with those who do find it so absorbing.” – George Goodman (aka Adam Smith), “The Money Game”
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Morning Outlook

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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” – Aldous Huxley

Remember that as interesting and engaging as current events may be, as a trader, your job is to manage risk and try to deliver superior risk adjusted returns. Filter out the noise and filter out your bias.
As a general rule of thumb, when brokers are scrambling to raise capital, you might want to seriously consider how you are going to be positioned over the weekend. we are at key inflect points across the board and it is even more important that usual to bring your A-game.
Naturally, the first priority is always to manage your risk but it’s also important to make hay when the sun is shining. As we said coming into this week, it’s important to understand when you are moving into a window of time when you can, at the very least, make or break your Quarter.
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Early Morning Update

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Here are some of the key points we will be discussing and reviewing today in the Video Update and Webinar:
1. No real change in the context > POST.
2. Still plenty of short-term complacency > POST.
3. Bigger picture, focus on RTH and not the usual o/n shenanigans we have seen for years.
4. Rotation out of Tech ‘safe-haven’ and action in Small Caps. What this means for positioning and the bigger picture.
5. Month-end flows and possible re-balancing implications for the rest of the week.
6. Developments in Europe and what this means for the Euro trade.
7. Keeping an eye on USDCNH.
8. Possible turning point in Crude and on a broader level, for commodity currencies.
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Complacency

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“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.” – Andy Grove

For readers that are not on Twitter, this is a thread from yesterday afternoon:
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Morning Update

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Limit down in a lot of Asian markets today as the unwind continues. Clearly things are getting uglier and uglier under the hood.
As we have been discussing, even if we have not seen a lot of panic from retail, the indiscriminate selling continues. Naturally, we don’t know, but the way things are trading, it really looks like someone big is being forced to de-risk hard and is in the process of a big unwind. I’ll leave the speculation as to who this could be to others but suffice to say, this is not Johnny-One-Lot getting margin called.
You know when the Fed and other CBs are taking multiple actions and the ECB has to co-ordinate another program at mid-night on a Wednesday… things are not orderly under the hood.
One of the key things to watch next is the USD. We have been discussing and mapping out scenarios for a while now but again, a strong dollar will break a lot more stuff. Pay attention to possible action from the FED or Treasury as other CBs have also started to hint at having to intervene here too.
Don’t forget that it’s time to get greedy when others are fearful. despite all the things that are going on , this too shall pass and it’s time to start look at longer-term opportunities, trades and portfolio construction too.
Sorry for the lack of longer written posts on the blog recently but things have just been too busy. Naturally, charts will continue to be posted as well as complementary access to some to the premium content.
I can’t stress this enough; this is a time to not only look for opportunity but to also internalize what is happening and learn. Please do not waste this unique opportunity if you have the luxury of following all this action unwind live.
Furthermore, and I hate to sound like I am plugging the premium content but unless you understand what is going on and have been able to successfully navigate the action, imho it makes a lot more sense to let someone guide you and use this opportunity to learn and grow as a trader rather than continuing to shoot from the hip. Most of the time a little investment in your own development can really go a long way and make things far less complicated than they should be.
If you know someone that is struggling, please pass this on. It’s very frustrating to see people continue to email in with horror stories or looking for a way out just because they are/were unwilling to invest in their own education.
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Week Ahead

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Once again, we find ourselves in a situation where is it all and only about Trump. Despite the fact that we have the FED and the ECB on deck this week, the real focus will remain on the December 15th Tariff Deadline.
Other key things to focus on apart from the usual data releases: UK Election, first Lagarde Presser, SNB rate/Presser and BOC Gov Poloz Economic Outlook . Nevertheless, the reality is that regardless of what happens this week, it could all easily be reversed over the weekend due to the Tariff Deadline.
All in all, as long as jobs data remains strong and markets at ATH, we would expect Trump to feel Bullet-Proof and therefore with no inclination to fold on his CHina demands. We will be focusing on mapping the various scenarios along with possible moves not only for intra-week action but especially to be ready for the next Sunday open too.
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