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Bob Loukas is the founder of The Financial Tap. With over 20 years of experience in market analysis and trading, Bob is a life-long student of economics and has an abiding passion for the financial markets. He is a leading expert in Market Cycles. His love of Cycles emerged from the study of the ...more

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Danger Zone
The Daily Cycle (DC) is still showing us somewhat of an uptrend, although gold remains barely above the 10-dma. The clear failure to make new highs in this 3rd DC cannot be ignored and such action is rarely bullish.
Is The Gold Silver Ratio Predictive
Precious metals bear markets always hit silver hard, while bull markets always see Silver outperform gold. As a result, the Gold Silver Ratio rises during bear markets and then falls during bull markets.
Returning Gold Bulls
Gold is back over the 10-week moving average and the technicals look fantastic. Sentiment and COT have barely changed, reasons to be hopeful this Cycle has room.
Trump Stock Market
Equities sold off sharply as the election results started to come in, but by the end of the week, the market had settled generally higher.
Bond Cycle Timing
For an asset locked into a bull market trend, Bond’s current consolidation has been both long & deep.
Excessive Crude Speculation
Crude has been on a fantastic run, and has gained 20% during just the first half of a single Daily Cycle. Unfortunately, however, we need to temper our enthusiasm, since Crude tends to move quickly during both up and down trending Cycles.
Gold Price Reversal
The Gold market continues to be lethargic. Two weeks ago, negative rumblings about Deutsche Bank pushed Gold higher out of the Half Cycle Low.
Another Cycle Higher – S&P
What we know for certain is that the Daily Cycle is well into the timing band for a Daily Cycle Low (DCL), and has reached a new low on day 44.
Bond Sentiment Extreme Near A Cycle Turning Point
The Bond market has obviously been in a strong rally since the April Investor Cycle Low (ICL).
Will This Crude Oil Rally Hold?
Crude has finally reversed higher to recover some of its recent losses, and is now showing clear evidence of a new Daily Cycle and Crude Oil Rally. There are early signs of a new Investor Cycle as well.
S&P 500 – Will They Buy The Dip
During the past few years, we’ve seen plenty of sharp sell-offs in equities that have reversed (Buy the Dip) to make new highs, but this time the sell-off feels different. I sense that the market’s character has changed on multiple time-frames.
The Next Crude Spill
I continue to believe that Crude is in a bear market, and that its long term trend is down. The past 12 months support my position, but if that no longer applies, if Crude is no longer in a bear market, my subsequent analysis will be incorrect.
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