Thursday 18 February 2016

12pm update - retrace appears underway

Having ramped from sp'1810 to 1930 across just 5 trading days, it would seem a moderate retrace is underway, with a basic target of the 1900 threshold. Oil is causing problems for the main market, swinging from gains of 3% to fractionally negative.


sp'60min



VIX'60min


Summary

*an equity bearish MACD cross (with a bullish VIX cross) is due within an hour or two, and the algo-bots should be selling into that technical signal
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With Oil inventories showing a net weekly surplus of 2.1 million barrels - very much contrary to the API report, the early oil gains have vapourised, and that is not surprisingly dragging the broader market lower.

The underlying issue of over-supply has not in ANY way been addressed, and it remains utterly laughable that talk of merely stabilising supply is now supposedly bullish for prices.

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VIX update from Mr T. 

*seemingly a no-show*

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time for lunch