DrStool Posted November 3, 2023 Report Share Posted November 3, 2023 Yes, my friends, it's that time of the month again, and I'm working on some reports to splain things. They'll be posted in Liquidity Trader within the next few hours. Here our focus is on the nitty gritty of day to day trading, particularly with reference to the broad market as represented by the ES, 24 hour S&P futures. Over the past couple of days, the patterns we saw foreshadowed the meltup we got, and yesterday, the market got very close to the latest 5 day cycle projection of 4225. But having given back nothing overnight, that projection now points to a range of 4345-4375. In other words, regardless of the BLS BS, the market is going higher today. Whether the move is early in the day or later, I will leave to the market gods. If the first move is up, I'd hold it until it gets to the projection range. If the initial move is down, I'd buy it around trend support which is around 4298 at the time of the BLS post nocturnal emission. Unless 4298 is decisively broken, which seems unlikely, but nothing is impossible. If that happens, we will discuss. At least we had some buys lined up on Monday morning. Swing Trade Screen Picks – Adding Longs Oh shit. I forgot that the time difference is only 5 hours this week. 😂😂😂 We started standard time over here in Europe last weekend. For moron the markets, see: Gold In the Mix November 1, 2023 Swing Trade Screen Picks – Adding Longs October 31, 2023 Last Week I Warned of Market Crash Potential October 30, 2023 Here’s Why Macro Liquidity Still Signals Record Danger October 28, 2023 Dealers Pull In Their Horns October 14, 2023 Tepid Tax Collections Mean It’s the Supply October 4, 2023 The Rhymes of History September 24, 2023 If you are a new visitor to the Stool, please register and join in! To post your observations and charts, and snide, but good-natured, comments, click here to register. Be sure to respond to the confirmation email which is sent instantly. If not in your inbox, check your spam folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted November 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2023 Based on our tracking of real time tax collections, I had warned repeatedly that BLS was overstating jobs growth for months. This month we got the adjustment. Top line 150k, which was below consensus, and indeed too low based on big October withholding tax gain, and two previous months revised down 110k. The first report is always bullshit. And wait until Feb annual benchmark revision. It will be another enormous downward revision. I will be posting an update on October Federal tax collections in a couple of hours. Stay tuned and keep your dial set right here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted November 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2023 If we really are talking about October, this BLS BS is flat out wrong. Stay tuned. I will post the details on Liquidity Trader later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted November 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2023 The bond rally is now targeting 4.20, with a conventional measured move projection of 4.120 if this yield breakdown sticks. Here’s Why Macro Liquidity Still Signals Record Danger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted November 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2023 5 day cycle has gone parabolic with the projection now at 4395. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxfox Posted November 3, 2023 Report Share Posted November 3, 2023 This is either the biggest short squeeze of all time or intervention. Plain and simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted November 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2023 Looking at the 2 hour bars you can see big resistance here. Last Week I Warned of Market Crash Potential Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted November 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2023 8 minutes ago, fxfox said: This is either the biggest short squeeze of all time or intervention. Plain and simple. Biggest Treasury futures short position of all time. What is the short position in stocks. That's old data, but would be interesting. I'll look at the fucutures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted November 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2023 Asset managers (green) long, dealers (red) and hedge funds (blue) short. Hedgies were extremely short in May and June, but have been covering gradually. This doesn't tell me anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxfox Posted November 3, 2023 Report Share Posted November 3, 2023 11 minutes ago, DrStool said: Asset managers (green) long, dealers (red) and hedge funds (blue) short. Hedgies were extremely short in May and June, but have been covering gradually. This doesn't tell me anything. If that chaos shows us anything then that the Asset Managers did have a good handle: Started to reduce lpngs in Q3 2021 it looks like and then started to built up longs from Q3 2022 on. Not bad. Guess the "Asset Managers" category can't get net short as a whole, since most of them will be quite likely "long only" funds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxfox Posted November 3, 2023 Report Share Posted November 3, 2023 Church & Dwight down 6%!!! Oh Lord, what are we gonna do now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted November 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2023 Which to Believe, the BLS or Actual Tax Collections LEE ADLER 1 - LIQUIDITY TRADER- MONEY TRENDS NOVEMBER 3, 2023 Well, it’s that time of the month again. What time is it boys and girls? It’s time to review the US Government’s end of month tax receipts for October. Those receipts tell us exactly how the US economy is doing, without the filter of Federal Agency statistical massage or Wall Street or government bureaucrats telling us what to think. Non-subscribers, click here for access. Subscribers, click here to download the report. The monthly BLS fictional jobs report for October has already been reported, with a headline number of +150,000. That’s the artistic impressionism of government statisticians at work. As a result, their first impressions for August and September were revised down by 110,000. So we have a net gain of 40,000 this month. Non-subscribers, click here for access. Unlike the BLS artistic efforts, tax collections are reality. They tell us how the economy is really doing. Most importantly, they tell us whether there’s any change in the revenue trend that might affect forthcoming Treasury supply. That’s what matters, not the economy. Treasury supply is the 700 pound gorilla of the market. Non-subscribers, click here for access. There’s been a lot of chatter in the Wall Street captured media this week about forthcoming supply because it’s quarterly refunding time. The media have finally realized that bonds are in a bear market. It only took them 39 months. We recognized it about 38 months ago. I was a month or so late there. Who knew! Once the Fed told us that it would stop buying almost all of the supply, we knew. Non-subscribers, click here for access. Now the media has also glommed on to something that we’ve been tracking for, oh, only the last 20 years. The TBAC supply forecast. And naturally they are misinterpreting that, along with the meaning of the BLS nonfarm payrolls news. Non-subscribers, click here for access. I will get to the Treasury supply data in a subsequent report which I hope to get out to you later today. For now, our eyes are on the October tax data, and withholding tax data through November 1, for what they tell us about the likelihood of any change in forthcoming supply. Non-subscribers, click here for access. Of course, tangentially, the tax data will give us some insight into the direction of the US economy. I won’t say it’s irrelevant. It’s material in that a weakening economy means lower tax revenues and a stronger economy means smaller deficits and less supply. That would change the trajectory of the trend in yields, but not the direction, because unless supply is radically reduced, the market still can’t absorb it at a stable price. Non-subscribers, click here for access. Do we need to know economic data to have a handle on Treasury supply? Not really, because we can see it from the tax trends, without trying to interpret statistically massaged, delayed economic survey reports. Non-subscribers, click here for access. Lower revenue means bigger deficits and more supply. More supply would be catastrophic in a market under constant price pressure with existing levels of supply. If supply increases from here, the incipient rally in bond prices would be very short lived, and what comes after would be catastrophic. Non-subscribers, click here for access. For now the rallies in both stocks and bonds are based on false perceptions. Enjoy them while they last. Non-subscribers, click here for access. In this report we look at the charts and the data to explain what’s coming so that you’ll have a clearer understanding and a good idea of what to do about it that fits your situation. If you are a professional, you can use this information to position your portfolio appropriately. If you are an individual investor, take this information to your money manager and tell them to subscribe to Liquidity Trader! Non-subscribers, click here for access. KNOW WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW, before the Street does, read Lee Adler’s Liquidity Trader risk free for 90 days! Act on real-time reality! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted November 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2023 What a shame that Sam Bankman Fried won't be. He should be. Yeah, that's it. Fry his ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted November 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2023 Sell everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted November 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2023 Typical bear market rally. It'll take until Thursday for all the shortz to be squeezed out, then LTFO. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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