The traditional and seasonal Santa Claus rally appears to have come rather early this year, with October’s rally for the NQ Emini (QQQ, quote) recording a sensational month of gains following the equally dramatic events towards the end of August which saw the index correct sharply, before strong stopping volume duly appeared to prevent the market falling further.
As the month of October draws to a close, and with the ghouls and ghosts of Halloween preparing to frighten and alarm in equal measure, it is the trick or treaters at the
Just like the children’s board game of snakes and ladders, or as it is known in the US as chutes and ladders, coming down the snakes is always much faster than climbing back up the ladders, and so it is proving for primary equity markets in the US.
GBPUSD recently broke past the resistance at the 1.5650-.1.5700 psychological levels and is showing signs of a pullback from the rally.
After selling off in the past few days, EURUSD is making a correction to the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement level. This coincides with a broken support level around the 1.0950 minor psychological level and the 200 SMA resistance, which could allow the downtrend to resume.
Panic – what panic. Not according to the price of gold and whilst other markets have seen extreme volatility with equities plunging, currency pairs opening gapped down, and the VIX moving violently, gold has continued to remain calm and serene throughout, with hardly a murmur to reflect the turmoil around.
Copper, like many other commodities holds a mirror to the Reuters Jeffries CRB index, which continues to wallow in a sea of bearish sentiment on the daily chart.
Friday’s speech from Fed chair Janet Yellan rounded off a seminal week for the markets, with the US dollar bulls returning in force as her comments continued to confirm the prospect of an interest rate rise during 2015, provided economic data continues to support the mild recovery for the US economy.
China’s central bank on Wednesday decided to lower the reserve requirement ratio (RRR), the minimum level of reserve banks must hold, by 50 basis points from Feb. 5.
As we come to the end of 2014 and look forward to 2015, for those trading and investing in gold the perspectives and conclusions will no doubt be very different and entirely dependent on whether you are a longer term investor in the precious metal, or a short term speculator.
