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Rebound Too Little Too Late, But Farter to Go 9/22/20


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It took all day, but they finally mounted a short covering stampede in yesterday's last hour.  The result left the market shy of repairing the breakdown. The indicators are ambiguous this morning. They're not signaling yet whether there's a second round to the rebound, or the decline has farter to go.  Stay tuned. 

60 minute bars. 

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30 minute bars
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On the daily chart, you can see clearly now where support stopped the decline. The daily indicators are declining, and are in a kind of no man's land where they are not at levels of any prior lows. I infer from that that there may just be a "tad" more downside. 

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Composite liquidity continues to rise, but at a slower pace than in the second quarter as the Fed has slowed QE. That reduces the cash flowing into Primary Dealer accounts, which in turn contributes to a slowing in secondary liquidity drivers.

“Slowing” is a relative word, however. Historically, the numbers remain gargantuan.

No, something else is holding the market back. Here’s what that something is, and what we’re going to do about it.

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Whoa. Bearish.

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