Call it a pothole. Call it a mini flash crash. We’ve had a few of these lately, and yesterday’s was epic.
I call it, Dealers Shake the Trees. They’re low on inventory because of relentless customer buying. They needed to shake some loose before the relentless US Treasury liquidity tsunami put so much cash into the pockets of their whale customers, that it starts burning holes in their pockets.
The US Treasury is pumping ungodly amounts of cash into big investor (and dealer) accounts. $91 billion in the second half of April. Another $55 billion just this week. And yet, massive inflows of taxes in April, and now extending into mid May continue to refill its coffers. It is STILL sitting on just under a trillion bucks in cash.
This money is ON TOP of the $180 billion or so per month that the Fed pumps into dealer accounts in QE, month after month.
As a result, we get charts that look like this. All the dealers need to do to build inventory is to play off news like Yellen saying yesterday that interest rates will need to go up, of the announcement of a proposed capital gains tax increase. Get a little selling going, the bots and AI triggers, and away we go. The dealers take prices down through the stop levels, and BOOM, suddenly, it’s all gone and we ridiculous shit like this on the charts.
This will get worse. The flash crashes and rebounds will get bigger. When the turn finally comes, and we have a pretty good idea of when that will be, we will witness, and hopefully profit from, one of the greatest crashes of all time. It’s coming. But not yet.
The new 5 day cycle projection is 4215.
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LEE ADLER
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