Wednesday, October 21, 2020
The Copper/Gold Ratio Would Change the Macro / Commodities / Copper
By: Gary_Tanashian
The Copper/Gold ratio is saying something. That something is that a cyclical, pro-inflation and thus pro-economic reflation metal shown earlier, remaining nominally positive on a down market day has, in relation to gold, taken out two important moving averages (daily SMA 50 & SMA 200) and is currently riding the short-term EMA 20 upward. RSI and MACD are positive.
Copper: Pro-cyclical inflation, pro-reflation, pro-economy.
Gold: Counter-cyclical, monetary, with inflationary utility.
Given the right circumstances (like desperate monetary and fiscal policy), which are in play on the wider macro, gold will probably do quite well moving forward. But maybe – for a while – not as well as some commodities if the Copper/Gold ratio really is up to something positive here.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Are We Entering Stagflation That Will Boost Gold Price? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
Inflation is back. OK, not inflation, but inflation expectations. As the chart below shows, they plunged during the coronavirus crisis, but they have already recovered. Currently, and based on the inflation-protected Treasury yields, Mr. Market expects that inflation will be, on average, 1.5 percent in the next five years and 1.7 percent in the next ten years.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Crude Oil Price Stalls In Resistance Zone / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Chris_Vermeulen
CLEAR PRICE CHANNEL MAY PROMPT BIG BREAKOUT OR BREAKDOWN MOVE IN OIL
In this report, I discuss the recent price action in crude oil and how economic conditions and the pennant flag chart pattern is indicating a big price move is about to take place over the next few weeks. While some of you may want a clear, bold prediction as to whether a breakout or breakdown may happen, as technical traders, our job is to predict different possible setups and identify the criteria that will tell us when to enter the trade upon confirmation. Read below to learn more.
Crude Oil has continued to retest the $41.75 to $42.00 resistance level over the past 30+ days. My research team believes this represents a very clear indication that further failure to advance above this level will prompt a moderate price decline – likely breaking below the $36.00 ppb price level.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
High-Profile Billionaire Gives Urgent Message to Stock Investors / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020
By: EWI
In a deflationary depression, the prices of most financial assets crater, including stocks.
One well-known billionaire says it's time to shift into cash.
Here's an excerpt from a Sept. 22 CNBC article:
Billionaire media mogul Barry Diller on Tuesday urged investors to maintain sizable cash positions following the stock market's robust rally from coronavirus-induced lows in late March.
"Personally, and professionally, every nickel you can, keep it ... wherever it's banked," the chairman of both Expedia and digital media group IAC said ... "I think the market right now is a great speculation, I would stay home."
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
What's it Like to be a Budgie - Unique in a Cage 4K VR 360 / Personal_Finance / Animals & Pets
By: N_Walayat
Hi guys in this unique video, you get to the closest to experiencing what it's actually like to be budgie living in a cage as I put a VR 360 camera right in the top middle of the cage, you can pan around the cage in all directions following the budgies in their daily activities on their level just as though you were another budgie! And you don't even need a VR 360 headset as any web browser will allow you to look around in all directions. Welcome to budgie life the world's first Budgie in a cage VR 360 video.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Auto Trading: A Beginner Guide to Automation in Forex / Currencies / Forex Trading
By: Submissions
Among the notable technological advancements in the forex ecosystem is auto trading. Not only does it replace manual trading but it is also making forex trading simpler and more profitable.
Before you decide whether or not to apply auto trading in forex you need its basics and where to use it.
What is auto trading? It the use of software to analyze markets as well as complete trades. It involves the application of artificial intelligence in forex trading.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Gold Price Trend Forecast into 2021, Is Intel Dying?, Can Trump Win 2020? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Gold price traded to a new all time high to well beyond the $2000 milestone after having held in a trading range at just below $1800 for most of the post corona crash bounce.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Gold Asks Where Is The Inflation / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
The inflation remains low and below the Fed’s target. So, should gold bulls worry about it?The U.S. CPI inflation rate rose by 0.2 percent in September , following a 0.4 percent increase in August. It was the smallest jump since May. The move was driven by a 6.7- percent spike in the cost of used cars and trucks, and it’s the most significant upward change over half a century. The core CPI rose 0.2 percent, following a 0.4 percent increase in the preceding month.
On an annual basis, the overall CPI increased 1.4 percent (seasonally adjusted), following a 1.3 percent increase in August. The core CPI rose 1.7 percent, much like in the month prior (or a bit less if we abstract from rounding). Therefore, as the chart below shows, the period of disinflation perhaps ended, but the inflation remains low. It seems that even though the inflation rate has reached the bottom in May or June, the outbreak of high inflation in the near future is unlikely.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Last Chance for this FREE Online Trading Course Worth $129 value / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020
More Short-term Stock Market Weakness Ahead / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX Long-term trend: For now, the best guesstimate is that we are still in the bull market which started in 2009. Where we go from here and how far will be gauged after the September-October correction.
SPX Intermediate trend: Intermediate correction nearly over?
Analysis of the short-term trend is done daily with the help of hourly charts. It is an important adjunct to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which discuss longer market trends.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Dell S3220DGF 32 Inch Curved Gaming Monitor Unboxing and Stand Assembly and Range of Movement / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Our new 32 inch Dell S3220DGF VA Panel Curved Screen Gaming Monitor has been delivered! Bought from Amazon for £379 (https://amzn.to/2Io4MHn). If your thinking of getting one find out what's in the box, and how to assemble the stand and what I personally really wanted to know before purchase but for which there was scant info is what's the range of movement in stand, up and down, side to side and how far does it tilt! All answered in our unboxing video.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Best Retail POS Software In Australia / Companies / Retail Sector
By: Sumeet_Manhas
A point of sale (POS) software is much more than just a conventional cash register. By integrating POS software to a mobile device or a cloud service, you can be satisfied with all of your hardware and software requirements. Various businesses, from smaller to midsize, all of them are going for a cloud-based POS software because you do not need multiple back-end servers at various locations.
There are many points of sale (POS) softwares in Australia. But finding the best POS software for you is vital to get you paid for your products. If you are looking for a POS to the trick, then POS Australia is one of the best options for you. Here is the guide for you to help you buy the best POS software in Australia.
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Monday, October 19, 2020
From Recession to an Ever-Deeper One / Economics / Coronavirus Depression
By: John_Mauldin
Economists who expected a quick recovery from this recession have been revising their forecasts. Mounting evidence suggests the May/June bounce was just that—a bounce, and not a return to prior trends.
I’ve been following Homebase, a payroll/HR data provider for small businesses, whose data gives us high-frequency and nearly real-time information. This is from their September report:
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Monday, October 19, 2020
Wales Closes Border With England, Stranded Motorists on Severn Bridge? Covid-19 Police Road Blocks / Politics / Pandemic
By: N_Walayat
So wales has started to close it's borders to England, that inevitably is going to leave , many motorists stranded in long lines of traffic on the likes of the Prince Wales Severn Bridge as Welsh police put up road blocks across the main crossing points from England into Wales. The Welsh nationalists finally have their centuries old dream come true one of separation of sorts from England with all of Wales border crossings CLOSED, under the guise of combating the spread of covid-19 as iterated by increasingly austere statements from Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford aimed at preventing people from England crossing into Wales, especially in the run up to the now extended half term holidays..
Is this really all about covid or part of a grand scheme for a move towards an Independence referendum of sorts following England's decision to implement Brexit?
Where covid is concerned from what I can see Wales has a far higher incidence of covid-19 than England, so maybe the travel restrictions should be in the other direction. Though I am sure if that were ever to happen then the welsh nationalists would also use that to their political advantage.
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Monday, October 19, 2020
Commodity Bull Market Cycle Starts with Euro and Dollar Trend Changes / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2020
By: Chris_Vermeulen
In this report, I would like to show you how currency values play an important role in the price of commodities like gold and silver. The analysis here is all about the EUR/USD currency pair to give you an idea of how they can help time and predict future price movement in metals. This is just one commodity pair out of several which provide similar insight and the more pairs that confirm, the stronger our signal and market timing will be.
Commodity bull eras do not need a strong Euro… but it definitely helps if the US Dollar weakens, as anything denominated in it like gold, silver, and oil will have a higher nominal value.
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Monday, October 19, 2020
Stock Market Melt-Up Triggered a Short Squeeze In The NASDAQ and a Utilities Breakout / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Rather quickly in trading late Sunday night, the NQ (NASDAQ E-Mini Futures) began to move higher quite consistently. By the time the markets opened in London on Monday, the rally was ON. We believe this is related to two underlying factors:
A. Short positions were getting squeezed after the end of week rally in the markets last week. The upside price pressure early in trading on Sunday/Monday likely forced many of these shorts out of the market – creating a Short Squeeze.
B. Global traders may be interpreting a biased election victory by Donald Trump based on news events or other information. This close to an election and with pending Q3 earnings just days away, a melt-up rally like this is fairly uncommon – unless you take into consideration that global investors may be pre positioning for an expected outcome.
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Monday, October 19, 2020
Silver is Like Gold on Steroids / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: The_Gold_Report
Peter Krauth explains why he believes investors should hold a position in silver.
We're still in the early innings of a precious metals bull market.
And if you're wondering whether you need to own some silver, my answer is categorically yes.
It's only a matter of degree.
With silver that's important because it acts like gold, but on steroids.
Silver can languish for extended periods, even if gold moves. But then it tends to play a rapid game of catch-up.
Timing such moves is difficult at best. Instead, it's better to build a silver position on price weakness, then simply sit patiently.
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Monday, October 19, 2020
Countdown to Election Mediocrity: Why Gold and Silver Can Protect Your Wealth / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: The_Gold_Report
With the presidential election less than a month away, sector expert Michael Ballanger offers a forecast for the gold and silver markets.
With a mere twenty-six days to the election of the "leader of the free world," of the richest, most powerful country in human history, financial markets are noticeably apprehensive as to outcome and understandably concerned with the reaction of the two deeply divided camps. With the Antifa and Black Lives Matter (BLM) "movements" mobilizing to disrupt at every turn, their ideological opponents carry little in the way of monikers but are passionately anti-BLM and anti-Antifa and even more passionately "pro-American," a descriptive often marching shoulder-to-shoulder with paramilitary and/or white supremacist groups.
The sad part of this misunderstood and misreported conflict is that the 1% elite, empowered by the politicians and the bankers that support them (the "banco-politico cartel"), would have us all believe that this conflict is the ultimate showdown between the conservative forces of law-and-order and the socialist forces of anarchy.
The stark reality is that the vast majority of the 99% that make up the unentitled non-elite, whose role has been to act as doormats upon which the 1% wipe their shoes, have finally had enough. It started with globalization, which shut down the manufacturing core of U.S. industry and shipped their jobs off to China and Mexico, and has culminated in a global pandemic that saw the politico-banco cartel once again enriching, with massive bailouts and liquidity injections, the 1%. This has resulted in all-time highs in stock prices, and wall the while the jobs of the working classes (the "doormats") were not simply transferred; they were terminated.
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Monday, October 19, 2020
“Hypergrowth” Is Spilling Into the Stock Market Like Never Before / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020
By: Stephen_McBride
Brian Chesky’s bank account had dwindled to $1,000. He had no job. And the rent on his San Francisco apartment was about to jump by 25%.
With his back against the wall, Chesky tried a “silly” idea to make some cash. He put three inflatable mattresses in his spare bedroom and offered to rent them to attendees of an upcoming conference in town.
Chesky built a rudimentary website and advertised it as Air Bed and Breakfast. That “silly” idea is worth $30 billion today. You surely know Airbnb as the wildly successful website that lets you rent out your home to travelers.
Founded just 12 years ago, it now lists more rooms than major hotel chains Marriott and Hilton—combined!
In today’s issue I’ll show you the secret that upstart Airbnb used to beat two of the world’s most successful hotel chains.
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Monday, October 19, 2020
Is Oculus Quest 2 Good Upgrade for Samsung Gear VR Users? / Personal_Finance / Virtual Reality
By: HGR
It looks like Samsung gear users finally have a reason to upgrade their ageing smartphone powered Samsung Gear VR headsets following the release of Oculus Quest 2. Amazon UK Oculus Quest 2 - https://amzn.to/3lYujFS
It all comes down to resolution per eye, Quest 1 only represented a 10% or so jump in resolution for which Oculus demanded a hefty £400 payment that and it had a litany of flaws such as NO blue tooth, NO microsd card slot!
Whilst Quest 2 is far from perfect i.e. still no blue tooth or Microsd card slot so users are forced to pay rip off price for extra storage space, at about three times the market price for the same storage!
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