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Global Macro Risky assets are having varying degrees of success in resuming the short covering rebound efforts that began Monday, with some initial Friday Asia morning progress being unwound for the Nasdaq100 for instance as of the Friday Asia late afternoon (London morning). Nevertheless, those playing what could still be a DeadCatBounce lasting another several days to weeks (which essentially is a Bear Flag consolidation), should be prepared first for potentially more volatility just before ending a historic week with today’s highly anticipated the US PPI at 830am EST and the US preliminary UoM consumer sentiment and inflation expectations at 10pm EST. Anticipation has dampened for an emergency Fed rate cut ahead of the next Fed meeting in May (and for a rate cut before the June Fed meeting), with medium term inflationary effects from the Trump administration #Tariffs now expected to keep Powell from cutting before June.
US Treasuries More importantly than bailing out the US equity markets has been the suggestion of JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon (and undoubtedly many others) to ensure the US Treasury market does not further meltdown. Recent bond auctions have been lacklustre in some cases with talks of a potential bailout of some of the largest hedge funds that have been hit hard on some of their US Treasuries trades, where with some particular highly leveraged trades, they step into the US Treasury market acting as dealers where bank dealer balance sheets have had to redirect elsewhere since the dust settled from the GFC due to regulatory capital requirements, etc. With the unsustainable US government debt load of ~USD 36T, and the massive annual interest on that debt at ~USD 1T, fear is rising that US Treasury issuances will no longer be fully bought up, which could erode confidence in the US dollar. The big picture technical analysis of US Treasuries can be seen in the TLT iShares 20+ year Treasury Bond ETF 25 year monthly chart below, where it is arguably testing the 61.8% Fib retrace of the massive Jan 2020 to Mar 2020 bull market. Monthly
#USDT US Dollar In the following 25 year monthly chart of the US Dollar Index, we can see what this means for the US Dollar potentially where if US Treasuries lose their traditional safe haven status, the massive uptrend from Sep 2011 to Sep 2022 of the US Dollar Index is at risk of ending this year.
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Odds are now moderate for a break of the above chart’s uptrend support connecting the key lows of 2011 and 2021 by sometime this year. US Dollar bears should not rule out though the US Dollar Index first finding multi-week, to multi-month support once it hits the 38.2% Fib retrace of its Sep 2011 to Sep 2022 bull market. Watch for any further announcements today, this weekend and early next week for any positive developments over agreements between the Trump administration and US trading partners particularly regarding the reduction of tariffs and trade barriers. US earnings next week will continue playing second fiddle to the global macro, geopolitical backdrop. With rising probabilities for massive Chinese monetary stimulus or a strong Yuan depreciation announced in the next week or so to soften the blow from the US-China trade war, some Chinese capital will leak into Bitcoin (and to a lesser extent Ether).
#bitcoin Fortunately for BTCUSD bulls or those playing a short-term bounce, BTCUSD is gaining in strength off of the strong rebound that began around Wednesday’s FOMC Meeting Minutes. BTCUSD refused to slide this week to the 38.2% Fib retrace of the massive December 2022 to January 2025 bull market (as can be seen in the weekly chart below), just above the highs of March and June 2024. Regardless of any further upside to the short covering for the balance of April, BTCUSD appears to want to slide further to an uptrend support connecting the October 2023, August 2024 and September 2024 lows (on the weekly chart) by Q3. A base, conservative scenario by year end is for BTCUSD to test the 50% Fib retrace of the late 2022-early 2025 bull market (coinciding roughly with the peaks of April and November 2021). There is a medium to low probability for now of testing within the same period, the 61.8% Fib at just above the 2024 low of psychologically key 50k whole figure level. BTCUSD has been outperforming the Nasdaq100 today and appears to want to further strengthen on today’s 830am EST US PPI and 10am EST preliminary UoM consumer sentiment and inflation expectations. Weekly
Nevertheless, the current rally will likely begin tiring by next week sometime or whenever it manages to rally right up against descending wedge resistance (on the daily chart).
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#TrumpTariffs #Ethereum ($ETH #ETHUSD ) ETHUSD continues to underperform BTCUSD, and with the strong downward momentum as seen by the still downsloping weekly RSI and MACD (in the weekly chart below), could slide further in the next month or so before finding a more sustainable tradable bottom from the November high or to the June 2022 low. Note that the ETHUSD bull market that began June 2022 and ended March 2024 has nearly completely unwound. Nevertheless, some short term relief could arrive in the next day or so as risky assets are increasingly short-term oversold, with odds rising for a minimum multi-week Dead Cat Bounce to begin as early as Wednesday with the release of the US FOMC meeting minutes, Thursday with the US CPI and unemployment claims, and Friday with the US PPI and preliminary UoM consumer sentiment and inflation expectations.
April 7, 2025 Global Macro Risky assets have gapped down to start the week with the market digesting the historically high US tariff levels announced by the Trump administration late last week. The tariffs are a complex discussion beyond the scope of today’s piece, but a herculean effort to rebalance global trade with the US suffering increasingly unsustainable massive trade deficits with many major trading partners over the last few decades. There have been many benefactors among US MNCs to the offshoring trend, but also many losers principally among US manufacturers (remaining onshore). Time will tell whether this strategy of re-onshoring of some manufacturing into the US will work over time, but in the past few months, the market has spoken with its fears over what the brakes on the status quo means insofar as impact to global trade flows and profits in the short to mid term. As with other times of severe risk off sentiment, correlations across asset classes rise and these past few months have been no different.
#Bitcoin ($BTC ) For the next few days, to the relief of bulls or those playing a short-term bounce, BTCUSD should be seeing some tentative support as BTCUSD is now testing the 38.2% Fib retrace of the massive December 2022 to January 2025 bull market (as can be seen in the weekly chart below) along with the highs of March and June 2024. BTCUSD is likely to slide further to the 50% Fib of the same bull market (coinciding roughly with the peaks of April and November 2021) by year end but odds are rising for a minimum multi-week Dead Cat Bounce to begin as early as Wednesday with the release of the US FOMC meeting minutes, Thursday with the US CPI and unemployment claims, and Friday with the US PPI and preliminary UoM consumer sentiment and inflation expectations.
#hbar $HBAR #HBARUSDT #HBARUSD post-#cpi #ta fairly bullish on mthly, wkly and dly charts where I'm looking to buy on dips in the next few days w/ tight bracket orders. I generally won't be holding more than 24-48hrs per long. Let me know your thoughts!
post-#cpi #ta fairly bullish on mthly, wkly and dly charts where I'm looking to buy on dips in the next few days w/ tight bracket orders. I generally won't be holding more than 24-48hrs per long.
#XLMUSDT #XLM #stellar post-#cpi #ta fairly bullish on mthly, wkly and dly charts where I'm looking to buy on dips in the next few days conservatively w/ tight bracket orders. I generally won't be holding more than 24-48hrs per long.
#BTCUSD appears ready to roll over on wkly timeframe w/ a lower Jan high vs Dec high increasingly likely w/ current wkly Gravestone unable to reclaim the record high. Note the rejection as well in Dec at the uptrend resistance connecting highs of Jan, Mar'23 and Mar, Dec'24. Wkly Stochastics is tiring from overbought level w/ wkly MACD trying to -vely cross. Watch for #Nasdaq100 weakness to lead $BTC lower.
Although #BTCUSD is starting 2025 w/ a green January candle, it remains at moderate risk of forming a major top around the upcoming Trump inauguration Jan 20, where odds rise for a sell on news scenario as traders lock in strong gains since the Trump November win.
W/ the #S&P500 showing signs of fatigue on its red January candle w/ the monthly MACD trying to negatively cross, it'll be interesting to see what another bout of risk-off on Jan 20 could do to $BTC and what that may mean for #BTCdominance .
Let me know your thoughts on what are your favourite #Alts in the meantime!