Anyone who purports to know the direction of the short term breakout, You’re a better man than I am Gunga Din.
Meanwhile, no such indecision in the money market, where T-bill rates show the Fed where the market actually is so that the Fed can use its rubber stamp to pretend that it is setting rates, when it really uses the Q of M to express policy. T-bill rates are the mirror. Then the Fed plays make believe with the after-the-fact increase in the Fed Funds target and the rates it pays on excess reserves (IOER) and RRPs.
In the long end of the market, the 10 year yield shows us the direction of supply and demand for long term Treasury paper. The trend is pretty clear. There’s more supply, and less demand, and it will get even worse as the Fed executes its plan to shrink its balance sheet, which Wall Street colloquially calls QT for Quantitative Tightening.
As for me, the good old fashioned way of saying tightening, “pulling the punchbowl,” also works. For 12 years the Fed intentionally promoted a bull market. Now it is intentionally promoting a bear market. The Fed always gets what it wants, pretending that it won’t also get the unintended consequences.
When they happen, which is a given, the Fed acts all surprised, with its repeat historical mantra, “No one could have seen this coming.” We’ll some people who were paying attention and applied a bit of common sense, saw it coming and told you so. Ahem, ahem.
So the Fed always gets what it wants, until it gets what it didn’t want, and reverses policy. Bottom line, is permanent and immutable. If you know nothing else about investing and just always followed this one simple rule, Rule Number One, you would do fabulously well. You could run a hedge fund and become a billionaire, just doing this. And you need to pay nothing for learning this rule and using it.
Rule Number One: Don’t fight the Fed.
So now the 10 year has another date coming up at 3.20. If you want to know more beyond that, click here, for starters.
Onward to crapto. Remember, the supply of crapto is infinite. Charlatan carny barkers are constantly inventing new craptos and foisting them upon the unsuspecting, unwashed masses of true believers. Crapto is the golden calf of 21st century religionists singing the praises of these false gods. Are they finally ready to drop another load on the poor zhlubs left holding these bags of shit?
Here’s a look at the weekly chart of BTC. The next leg down should target 22,000.
Now, if you are interested in a store of value that you can hold in your hand, and is shiny, and heavy, and yellow, and Potatohead can store it for you, then there’s this. I’ll even track it for you every week, and feature someone who might profitably mine it for you for a few weeks now and then.
To me, this looks like a bullish high base.
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