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Uncertainties remain! Dovish statement We just received the 25 basis points rate cut. The market had already priced it in. Powell just released the statement. It seems to be a dovish one . He will start his speech at 2:30pm, where the market will try to understand the possibility of a 4th rate cut in December. The CBOE Fed tool has the 4th cut in December at 26%. We should see the yield curve steepen. ----- Economic reports GDP report was positive/neutral. ADP employment change headlines were good, but analyst are not happy reading into the details.
TVC:TNXShort
by dorfmanmaster
10 Year T Note: Triple Bottom. Major long term Buy Opportunity.The 10 year has rebounded off the major 1M Support this month, making a statement with last week's strong 1W candle. This marked a Triple Top formation on the 1M scale (since 2012) and the trend shift becomes obvious. 1D is trading near overbought territory (RSI = 70.811) pushing the 1W towards neutrality (RSI = 42.781, ADX = 58.406, Highs/Lows = 0.0000), detaching it from its previous bearish levels. We are expecting a major cyclical bullish move in the next 2+ years towards at least 32.00. Shorter term investors should look towards the inner Channel Up (dashed lines) for pivotal sell/ buy entries. ** If you like our free content follow our profile (www.tradingview.com) to get more daily ideas. ** Comments and likes are greatly appreciated.
TLong
by InvestingScope
Gold reserves measured in years of interest on debtThis chart depicts the US gold reserves divided by the interest on debt. The interest on debt is calculated as a proxy by multiplying the 10 year interest rate with the total federal debt. Whether this is accurate or not is not so important as we just want to compare this ratio with its historic values. It is important to note that official US gold reserves have remained unchanged since the closing of the gold window in the early 70's. This metric has risen and fallen quite a bit. First this metric rose during the stagflation of the late 70's. The gold reserve of 262 million ounces hit a high of 222 billion whilst the yield did a first peak to 13.5% with the debt, barely over 900 billion our proxy interest was about 120 billion and thus the gold reserve was almost able to pay it off twice. It is my belief that the rise in gold prices and with it the value of the US gold reserves is what cooled the debt market causing it to revert course into a 4 decade long bull. Interest rates plummeted, federal debt rose faster, and gold also went down in price. At the turn of the century gold found itself trading at 290 dollar, the gold reserve reduced to 76 billion, the US debt grown to close to 6 trillion and the treasury rate reduced but at times peaking to close to 7%, the ratio hit a low of just 0.2 years of interest on debt that could be paid by the gold reserve. The next 11 years were marked with a continuing of the bond bull run whilst also gold rallied to a new all time high. By 2011 and 2012 the ratio hit close to 2 years again thanks to gold trading at 1800 and the yield as low as 1.5%. Since then, rising yields and declining gold prices have hit this ratio back to about the middle range. Technically, not much can be said where we go from here so we'll have to take a look at the fundamentals. While multiplying the 10yr with the debt is a nice workaround to picture the interest on debt by tradingview the real interest on debt is more difficult to compute. The US debt consists of bonds with various denominations running from 30 year bonds to bonds with maturities of less than 1 year. This means that of the 30 year bonds, most have been issued in the 1990's and 2000's and the interest paid on them is the yield of those bond at the time of issuing. In fact the 30 year bonds that are maturing today have been issued exactly 30 years ago with a yield of almost 9%. When they mature, they are rolled over in new bonds that -even if we had a small tick upwards in the last couple of years) - have a significantly lower interest of just over 2%. The same holds for 10 year bonds which 10 years ago had a yield of 3-4% vs 2.6% today. This effect is what caused the actual interest on debt (www.treasurydirect.gov) to not even double from 214 billion/year in 1988 to just 402 billion/year as recent as 2015 whilst the federal debt exploded over 20 fold from 900 billion to 19 trillion dollars. However, all good stories must come to an end and this one is no different. The bond market has been topping out for the better part of a decade now and yields have seen some upward momentum. This has meant that a lot of treasury auctions saw the treasury forced to roll over their 5, 3 and 1 year bonds into new bonds with a higher yield than the old one. Whilst the treasury can steer and man-oeuvre a little bit by opting to sell short term bonds when yields are high and long term bonds when yields are low there is ultimately no escape from market reality. This has become clearly evident from the last prints of interest expenses on debt outstanding that have risen with 9.1% per year for the last 3 years and show now signs of abating with another 8.6% rise for the first five months of this financial year. This is in stark contrast with the 2.36% increase of the previous 27 years. I would venture to guess that if nothing is done on a policy level to tackle the accumulating debt and rock the bond markets gently to sleep once more we will enter a spiral of increased debt issuance met with stable or declining demand which will push up yields which in turn will create the need of issuing more debt. This viscous circle will only end through a spectacular rise in the price of gold. In a previous analysis I had already outlined a possible scenario of the 10 yr yield hitting its magnet level of 7% by 2025. Given the current debt of 22 trillion, which is increasing at 1 trillion a year, it seems likely that by the start of 2025 we will be looking to a national debt in excess of 30 trillion dollar. At a ratio of 1.8 for our gold reserve to interest expense on debt ratio we learn that the US gold reserve should be valued at 3.8 trillion dollars. For this gold would need to rise to at least 14500 dollar. If for some reason the debt markets stay irrational for a very long time before going in overdrive it could very well be that the US ends up with a 50 trillion dollar debt by 2035 when this scenario fully comes to fruition. In such a scenario I see no reason to expect that the 10 yr yield would only stay limited to 7% but could easily hit the 1980 value of 13.5% again. In order to calm the debt markets at these yields and these levels of debt gold would have to rise to about 45000 dollar to repeat the 1980 scenario. Hold on, its going to be a hell of a ride.
FX:XAUUSD
by fatjohn
1
Yield explosionThe yield curve is still in a bear market. Downward trending resistance at 3.1% Once that is broken, it could easily go up to 7% which will act as a magnet due to it being a historical support line (1973-1992) and resistance (1992-2000). This would be disastrous for the US government as interest on debt would rapidly rise. More fundamental reasons of why the yield curve would go up is off course the US debt which is absurdly high. There is no reason for lenders to keep lending at these low yields. Russia stopped doing it and sold all US treasuries, China stopped doing it and now that the babyboomers are retiring they are stopping as a buyer as well. Soon only the fed will be a buyer of these bonds. Long term up is the only way to go for yields and the road is open until 7%. This would cause a panic since the US will have it very difficult to service the debt without creating more bonds, enlarging the supply. Very good news for gold (65% of the monetary reserve of the US) which could be doing extremely well just as it did in the 1970's
TVC:TNX
by fatjohn
Yep, lower mortgage rates for 201910 year yield is dropping with a quickness to match only stock sell-offs. Might be a good time to look at some REITS? Rates look to me like they will decline for the next 2-3 years. Yields hit .382 fib support today and bounced very slightly higher. News of the end of the Gov shut down could provide the catalyst needed to send yields back to .236 level (2.80%), especially if combined with "favorable" "CHINA!" news. Such a bounce will be temporary and yields will continue to drop lower. Zoom out and you can see we're on a 35+ year trend of lowering rates. Next support fib is 2.29 followed by a more significant one at 2.06. Strongest support at 1.75 where we have fib, gann fan and support/resistance trends all converging.
TVC:US10Y
by jdharward
2
Gold shines with falling real yields This chart compares the real yield of 10 year Treasuries (bottom red) to XAUUSD (top). The real yield is the yield that a treasury buyer can expect to earn after inflation (nominal interest rate minus the inflation rate). At a glance there's visibly a strong negative correlation between real rates and the price of gold over time. Research by _Erb and Harvey showed a negative 82% correlation between real interest rates and gold prices from 1997 to 2012 (The Golden Dilemma). The real yield on long term treasuries was over 3% in 2000 and fell to a negative yield in 2012-2013. During this period of time the price of gold gained over 600%. And in reverse from 2012 the real yield increased approximately 1% to 2015, while the price of gold fell almost 40% during this time. Gold is relatively expensive when the real yield on treasuries is high, and relatively cheap when the real yield on treasuries is low. If an investor can gain a high real yield after inflation by holding a 'risk free' treasury, then the opportunity cost of holding gold is comparatively high. This makes gold relatively less attractive since gold pays neither dividend nor interest. Treasury investors lose money during negative interest rates (when inflation is greater than the nominal interest rate). This makes gold more attractive despite having no yield.
ULong
by dime
1
$TVIX to hit $99.38, with trials to break $100.27In next 60 days, as $DJI continues to dramatically falls, among other market indices (e.g. oil most likely to hit below $40), thereby high-market caps (e.g., $MSFT, $AAPL, $AMZN) to settle down to new lower valuations, most likely all to hit below $600B, or even lower as it all used to hold on <$500B, thereupon $TVIX becomes a safe bet to break up its old adjusted supports and it is possible to reach to its $115 support. Please feel free to comment, Happy Holidays, and trade safe!
TLong
by aicody
5
RECESSION CLOCK STARTED An inverted yield curve means a market situation in which the yields offered, for longer maturities, are lower than the yields of the short-term portion of the curve (in this case the "short" is usually considered as the rates up to 2 years). This is a situation that is at first sight counter-intuitive. Those who have studied Finance will certainly remember the mantra for which 1 euro today is better than 1 euro tomorrow; an inverted curve, instead, says exactly the opposite: better 1 euro tomorrow. This means that investors, on average, are moving towards long-term investments, despite lower yields than short-term investments.
TVC:US05YShort
by albertus76
FVX 5 Year Treasury Yield: Longer Term Outlook for RatesFVX Longer Term Outlook for Rates Since Yellen retired in February FVX has risen to test the the junction of the upper parallel at the same point in time as it hit the fixed resistance line at 29.83. Since then it's been consolidating inside a slowly forming pennant formation with a spike down to the 25.46 line almost exactly before it pushed higher again. Though it's likely to spend some more time messing inside the pennant, eventually the upper parallel is going to give way leading a spurt higher to 37.22 and then after consolidating some more should beat 37.22 and push higher to 52.39. That's the most likely stopping point for interest rates from that point - until wage inflation pops even higher, forcing the Fed to follow long again on rates, whether the President approves or not.
FLong
by sumastardon
1
Gold to 2 year Treasury RatioThis log chart compares the Gold price in USD to the short term 2 year Treasury yield. Since gold has no yield is it possible it will continue to sell off as 'risk free' treasury yields rise? Some analysts expect the Fed to hike three more times this year and four times in 2019, bringing the terminal fed funds rate to 3.4%. Could potentially the yield curve may flatten in the coming year giving a 2 year yield of approx 3.4%, and gold drop to 1200, printing a ratio of 353 this chart? What are your thoughts?
FX:XAUUSD
by dime
TLT: Mother of all short squeezeEvery hedge funds and their wife, dog, cats, kids are short bonds. Everyone is trapped in the narrative of the FED's rate hike. The bus of short 10 year treasury is full. Its time for a train derail. In a risk-off environment, do you think the FED will ever hike rates further? Adding another level of uncertainly is the cancellation of the Trump-Kim summit in Singapore. Including the recent crash of Italian bonds, EU drama yet again (potentially 5x bigger than Greece) The only place funds can reposition themselves are the US dollar, and US debt/treasury. Uncle Sam. The VIX is currently near lows once again. ~13 It is time to counter-trade that, and reap the rewards of the short covering along 117 support line. You have only 2% to risk. Just buy August 2018 - June 2019 call/ bull spread and close your chart. No stop loss. If it doesnt get there, you lose your investments. If it does, you get back 5x~20x your investments. All conditions are perfect.
NASDAQ:TLTLong
by LastBattle
8
SPY following giant descending triangleAMEX:SPY S&P 500 is following a giant descending triangle, even though on 04.18.18 it has not touched the triangle. Overall the market is bearish short term , despite being in the earnings season. In a bullish market some neutral and positive earnings report would have been interpreted as bullish . Increasing treasury yields may be partly to blame. As investors are buying more bonds for safety the yield increases and we passed the 3.0% yield today which carries a psychological importance as well (e.g 8 years ago it was 3.9%). Adding political and global uncertainties to this created a market that is much more easily spooked compared to Jan'18. See CBOE:VIX The critical resistance for the S&P 500 index is at 2580. If we break lower the chances are that mutual fund managers technical analysts are going to advice : "sell, sell, sell". NASDAQ:TLT NASDAQ:IGOV AMEX:TLH CBOE:TNX If we do break the 2580
AMEX:SPY
by Call_the_bottom
Short Squeeze for the Treasury bearsTypically I have seen that when everyone is on one side of the trade its quite easy for the market to make fools of the participants. The speculative short position on US treasuries, specifically the 10 year, is massive (and for good reason). While I remain a longer bear view on these treasuries I think we might end up seeing a short squeeze before we see 3% yields. The 10 year is showing some signs this could accelerate and hurt alot of bears who need to cover their positions.
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by skyman9025
US 10Y T-NOTE -> COMING CLOSE TO A MAJOR TURNING POINT?Still cannot know whether the underlying asset will be turning from the 1.382 / .50 or the 1.618 / .618 but there is a strong confluence on both levels which makes me believe that one of them which prove to be a a key reversal point. Also judging by the strong correlation between 10-Y yields and the DXY which is also nearing a major reversal point we could in effect anticipate a similar behavior on both, of one confirming the other. For risk and money management purposes, always determine a max. of 2% risk on every trade. For example on a $50,000 account, this would be equivalent to 1,25 Lots with an 80 pip stop loss. Targets and closure of positions may be subject to alteration throughout the course of the trade. This is due to the ever-changing and unpredictable nature of the market. This post is set to be used and serve as an example and in an educational manner and is not to be taken as direct investment advice.
OANDA:USB10YUSD
by Aqua_Trader