Category Archives: Futures Contract

One Trader Is Stunned By The “Staggering” Confusion In The Market

By silveristhenew | Published June 22, 2017

Wherever one looks there are disconnects… between bonds and stocks, between risk and uncertainty, between hope and reality. But, as former fund manager Richard Breslow notes, most critically, there is a divergence between data and Fed actions, and this time is different as central banks appear to have shifted into 'whatever it takes' to tighten […]

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Citi: Here Comes The V-Shaped Rebound In Oil

By silveristhenew | Published June 22, 2017

Start buying oil. That’s not only this morning’s recommendation by Dennis Gartman but, as this afternoon, also Citi’s commodities team (led by OPEC’s impressario Ed Morse) which moments ago issued a report according to which crude oil markets will not only bottom, but more importantly, “investors should position now for a potential V-shaped rebound in […]

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The Anatomy of Brown’s Gold Bottom, Report 4 June, 2017

By silveristhenew | Published June 11, 2017

As most in the gold community know, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced on 7 May, 1999 that HM Treasury planned to sell gold. The dollar began to rise, from about 110mg gold to 120mg on 6 July, the day of the first sale. This translates into dollarish as: gold went down, […]

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Futures Flat, Market Anxiety Eased By European Bank Rescue

By silveristhenew | Published June 7, 2017

European and Asian stocks, as well as S&P futures were little changed ahead of “Super Thursday’s” events which include the U.K. general election, Comey’s testimony and the ECB policy decision. That however may change following a Bloomberg news report that the ECB is set to cut inflation forecasts through 2019 due to weaker energy prices, […]

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“Sell Economic Ignorance, Buy Gold”

By silveristhenew | Published June 2, 2017

"We live in an age of advanced monetary surrealism…." is how Incrementum's Ronald-Peter Stoeferle and Mark J. Valek begin their latest epic tome on the precious metals market "In Gold We Trust." In Q1 2017 alone, the largest central banks created the equivalent of almost USD 1,000 bn. worth of central bank money ex nihilo. […]

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Deutsche Bank Calculates The “Fair Value Of Gold” And The Answer Is…

By silveristhenew | Published June 1, 2017

Over the past three years, gold has found itself in an odd place: while it still remains the ultimate “safety” trade and store of value should everything go to hell following social and monetary collapse, when it comes to “coolness” it has been displaced by various cryptocurrencies, all of which have vastly outperformed the yellow […]

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Fed Fail? Traders Cut Rate-Hike Bets By The Most In History Last Week

By silveristhenew | Published May 27, 2017

The last two weeks have seen speculators cover over $710 billion worth of Fed rate-hike bets – the biggest move in Eurodollar futures history as Trump concerns and Fed Minutes reignite lost faith in the ebullient future that sparked the creation of a record $3 trillion bet that The Fed will be right this time. […]

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Fragile Markets? US Equity Futures Flash-Smash… For No Good Reason

By silveristhenew | Published May 24, 2017

First VIX dumped-n-pumped this morning, then Russell 2000 (ETF and Futures) flash-crash at lunch time, and now, amid heavy volume, someone decided it was the perfect time to panic-buy S&P, Dow, and Nasdaq futures… Very heavy volume for early asia trading… Some contest to Russell 2000's and VIX's earlier flash crash… As […]

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“Bears Need More”: Why One Trader Thinks The Selling Is Now Over

By silveristhenew | Published May 18, 2017

Yesterday’s market dump, the biggest one-day selloff in eight months as concerns about the stability of the Trump administration and concerns about a potential Trump impeachment finally slammed risk assets hard, is also a one-off event. At least that’s the opinion of Bloomberg commentator and former trader, Mark Cudmore, who overnight wrote that “without some […]

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Euro Surges As Trump Fears Slam Dollar; Futures Poised For New Records

By silveristhenew | Published May 16, 2017

In a replica of Monday’s early trading, European shares are down, this time led by health-care stocks even as the Euro surges above 1.1050, the highest level since the US election. Asian equities rose, while S&P futures were unchanged although we expect the ramp to kick in any second, and take the NASDAQ to another […]

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