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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Greatest Fund shifting... Environment and climate changing.

Hi everyone.

It is being a while since I wrote my thought and it seem like my blog will be monthly update with daily commentary update to my blog. The way I wrote here it trying to make everyone who come to the blog to follow throught all the monthly thought and it good to go over what we wrote and feel on the daily movement.

Ok now back to market.

After I took most of my profitfour week ago,

this is my update position : I only have some position left before I left the market.

Current position
Long position in (this a short term play)
Treasury @ 96.80
Short S&P @ 1190
Short euro /dollar between 1.36 - 137

Sell most of my position in commoditites include gold and silver (which seem like a bad move)

All my oil position @ 86.60.
Sell my gold position@ 1150 and silver @ 18.00

So now i am holding 80% of my cash.... looking for opportunity to enter new long position.


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Currency View.
Still maintain bearish stand on Euro. Look like the euro credit rating start to spread like i have anticipated . Euro will now start the final pharse of decline... cross my finger waiting to close my short and enter long in Euro .

Now the Japanese is getting my attention, it seem like the government debt is exploding while the market is keeping this under the radar, this will somehow starting to have effect on Yen and the situation will be getting deteriorate for the Yen, so everyone who start to pile long in Yen, might need to do more research. Yen is now tight to carry trade so thing will be abit complicate..

Dollar will gain short term wind but should use this wonderful opportunity to exit dollar . i am long term bearish on dollar and most flat currency like i wrote before so alternative long term currency holding will be gold and preious metal.

There is a few good currency which link to commoditites like canada, australia etc ...you can check out everbank, they good at currency view.
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Big Picture view.

US Economy and the world is still in re-stocking pharse , so there should more feel good story for time to come but, once this short term phenomenon end which i suspect will have another quarter to run ... so there will jigsaw move in the world market but the trend should be down ... this is something which you need to take note of.

Greek crisis and Portugal look like the next time bomb ... which bold well for my short in Euro, hope to hit my mark @ 124- 126 which I have start to take some profit from my short.

Seem like the Germany would like the Euro to be weaken which should bold for Germany and a few Euro zone economy in the next quarter like i have wrote in my previous letter.

But with the credit crisis start to spread fast, Germany better start to do demage control before the crisis spread like the 1998 south east asia financial crisis which start from Thailand and quickly spread to south east aisia country.


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Commodities outlook.

ok let talk about climate changing it is seem like the world is having a great shift is weather which could impact in global commodities supply and demand.


With raising Chinese and India medium class, i betting the commodities will have more run, weather and climatic have serious impact on the supply side while the demand keep rasing, any short term disruption in output will have serious impact in the commodities price.This is a thing which you guy need to take note of

http://www.almanac.com/forum/weather-forum/theos-astromet-forecast-el-nino-2010


Oil

After taking my profit in oil i am look to enter oil again but probably at lower range like US$72-73 range..now close my finger waiting for opportunity to go long.

the BP oil in the cost of US deep water drilling this will effect seafood and live stock which have unexpected out come of the price of seafood food item.. which should find some seafood stock in asia pacific region company to go long or comnpany which have right to fish in this region ..

This BP oil spill, just make me think how dangerous the deep sea drill is and will have huge impact on the oil price and environment for time to come. The world still have oil reserve, the only problem it is in far reach and dangerous area..

Commentary on oil market:
It is time for oil to face liquidation so i think the price could drove in deep a bit... but please beware this is only short term ... should look for opportunity to go long.


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Stock

After take my profit in S&P index, well at the time it look like well ahead but this is all about tricking the market. which i have fortunate to being able to add more short before the market clash.

I have not yet close my short position, i have a feeling this will be quite a severe correction... better go short or keep cash in hand if you are afraid to extend your short...

I think it is possible the correction to reach 1000 - 1050 range point in the s&P index, so it should be quite a run i think.

Please note that this is my personnel feeling , and just a prediction base on my crazy calculation ... please use your own gut and feeling when doing the investment ....

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Gold and precious metal.

it seem the bad move i make is in gold ( which i did not why i hit the sell button) but look ok in my silver position.

Althought the gold is looking bullish, but i still recluntant to add my gold position at this level, there is treasury auction going on so i think the "big boy" will have something up in their mind"beware".


I am bracing for the final rally and will sell my treasury @ 103.5 and will start to pull short ... but i will see again ..


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China outlook..

It seem like a lot of investor is betting China will belly up, betting against is worst then betting against USA ... We will see some slow down in the property activity, i did not see clashed, the debt per houshold in Chinese is still low so i will leave" the chinese will belly up thoery " for the next two years... but now let enjoy the growth.


Althought the chinese is curbing lending in the property market, in shanhai and big city, but the world expo will generate alot of income for chinese and which will result in stability in preperty market in Chinese market. Which i did not see the chinese preperty market will pop but i think we will see slower growth wh9ich is good for long run.

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Investment strategy:

Currency:
Prepare to go long euro when the 1.20 - 1.24 range
prepare to short Euro/Yen

Bond/
Prepare to short bond @ 103.50 - 105 range on ward.


Gold and precious,
I have a feeling there might be some force liquidation in the precious market... I will look for a good opportunity to long when the gold touch US$1100 - 1110 range .. cross my finger ...


Oil
I same like gold my target to go long is about US72 -73 range or lower ..

S&P/stock,

I see further pressure in the stock market, still keeping my short the selling should last quite a while.

I am do not have mood to write for the past day but yestersday activity good me a boost and morale ...so happy trading everyone.

Good trade every one

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  2. Hi every , I have post my short position in s&p mistake , my short is about 1190

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  3. Hi Pred,
    Good to hear from you. I'll study your comments this weekend as I'm working again.

    Allen, Regarding cnbc, that's what I like about reading your comments. You confirm that manipulation I get the feeling is happening, but don't have the experience. I'm really learning and will now watch yen crosses. Gold is strange as it decouples. What do you think about that? And, hey, I'm working during the market but you can't drink beer when the market is moving - there are weekends for that hehe!!!

    CBS, we can't depend on anyone really to help us - if they do, I just consider it a gift, not a right to expect.

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  4. CBS,
    Check out the yahoo message boards for IMJX, GOIG, and ENTI. Especialy read the posts by 'fartmaster and dmoinvest'. They are the most imformative.
    This guy, FM has an astonishing track record and writes continuously.

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  5. hi shirley
    hehe i was drinking because i had the big winner already, than the market moved again hehe

    think preditor is right ,its a sellers market dont know how faar we can move down, but u must think from one support to the next, i would be supprised if we didnt hit last low 5380 during next week..
    but short money isnt easy u must try to get daily highs for shorting, a big help is like i told u watching yen crossings in 15min chart u find the shortterm buy and sell signals market reacts good to them..

    cnbc just trys to avoid panic so that people get trapped in their book losses they know when book losses are to high they cannot sell anymore..

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  6. Congrate Allen...

    I think i might be preparing another nice vacation :)

    I just missed my gold but i think i will look forward to add more position ....

    Now hope the greek crisis will be under control soon

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  7. Nice to hear from you again Pred !!!

    If this report was posted a little bit earlier Y´ll avoid making some bad moves. But who could imagine (or believe..) that a big finger confused a "m" by a "b"...!!! in a trade and all the markets get crashed !! I wonder if they think we are all stupid.. I was expecting a little upside at s&p 1.170, perhaps reaching again 1.200 before this move down. Mi problem is the timing.., you said in your post we could could reach 1.050 (we were near on thursday) and that this correction will last for a while, you said "a quarter".. Are you expecting three months of down trend from now on, before we go up??
    I bouhgt TLT (30 years bond) at 87,5 one month ago and Y sold them 106 this week, and start shorting...
    I´m expecting go long in oil next week (let see if we reach 73..) And I´m watching silver ang copper to go long.
    I´m also wondering if this is not time to go shopping in europe, perhaps start buying Euro Stoxx 50 and Cac 40. We also almost reach your buying levels for the euro Pred.. Did you start entering long ?
    What´s your time horizon for agricultural commos ? I`m holding some and getting hurt these days in some of them.

    Shirley and Allen, perhaps in some ocation drinking some beer help you make some better trades...

    Thank you and good trades for all of you.

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  8. thx pred
    hehe that i love on u u always make ur money they easy way,first easy more than 100points long s&p now short, going vacation while ur shorts doing work..

    nothing can bring me away from markets now,eaven if the offer a trip to moon hehe,iam waiting for this so long..in dax bid side has disapeared ,incredibel on important supports..bankers start to realise, what every little child knows, if u borror someone money u might not get all back hehe..

    all the people buying at pigs auctions, after a few days sitting on horribel losses..
    cds on banks going crazy,cot shows still no buying of smart money..

    what i always warn people ,with their in germany very popular cfd trading systems comes true people getting destroyed on a singel day..some systems were cloased on friday, in my german daytrading forum pure panic..

    so its time to read jesse book again ,in this marketperiod big money can be made very fast but needs balls of steel..

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  9. @shirley

    if u get trapped in some stocks, remember its never bad to cut a position at half, eaven if u take some loss..its easier than selling all,somehow u must manage to profit from all this and not ending getting trapped bevor booklosses getting to big, like most investors, monday could start bullish again so another good chance u can always put the money back into the stock again..

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  10. Thank you Allen,

    It was a hard decision but it was necessary to cut losses and I'm glad I did as they have gone down more. I'm probably going back into those stocks in China as I think they will do well over time, but not until the correction is over.

    I'm very happy with the stocks I mentioned above. I have good profits already and I'm expecting much more.

    Really happy for you, Allen, you are having so much fun at your trading desk. :)

    Andre,
    I agree with you, but I prefer wine. Hope your trading goes well. Regarding ag, I hold some and I think when they run it will happen all of a sudden - also, orange crop in South America is going to be light and after the Florida frost, the price of orange juice is going higher, imho.
    I'm thinking about trying some shorts in sp. I don't know why but going short is hard for me.

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  11. Hi every 1,

    I have input "final rally prepare to take profit" in my previous headline.

    I see the correction coming which why i took all my long position ... but i not sure of the time...

    So now i am good position at alot of thing at cheap price ..

    Gold is still having some unexplain activity like the HUI, did not gain while the gold keep pushing up, this is not giving any sense to me ..


    Maybe i am over suspcious but it is just don't give me any sense.

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  12. Hi Pred,
    Read your post. It's really good to get your overall sense of the market. I'm in about 50% cash too.
    Allen, I notice the yen is weakening and futures markets are going up. COT have not changed much.
    Could mean the final leg of rally Pred spoke about may begin Monday.

    Good trading to everyone :)

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  13. Hi every one,

    The EU, just throw another inflation bomb to the market...

    May i ave to reconfigure my trade..


    Will be back for more

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  14. I think i close my short in S&P in the opening ..

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  15. may be i should hold to my short .. for a while ... the market is too bullish but the fundamental did not change.

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  16. Wow,
    Marc Faber wrote an interim report suggesting to short the market if there is a short term rebound to 1150-1180 on the sp. That was a surprise as he hardly ever updates his newsletters in the middle of the month. I think that might give me the courage to short this market soon.
    Allen, do you get Faber's newsletter? If so, could you give me your thoughts on what he wrote?
    Thanks everyone. Hope that helps everyone.

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  17. hi
    thx shirley for update on marc, its confusing now, this bailout try from eu is incredibel big..
    idont like to act when things so unclear , have no real sell signals from currencys, but like always i may miss the first move ..

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  18. Hi Shirley,


    I have deep thought on this , we are living in an extraordinary time and the investment is getting risker for day trader so beware ...

    The EU, throw free money out of no where into the market, but it doesn;t fix the long term issue which is debt... the logic is that you cannot fix debt with more debt.. while this will sure have impact is budegt problem for the whole EU in the mid to long run.

    The market will find a short live is the yestersday spark and i am brace for more correction ...

    which mean i will still adding to my short for the S&P, i am still waiting to cash out my long in treasury which i hope to hit my mark about 103.00 range , let see how the market go into the next few day

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  19. Yes, we live in very extraordinary times. It is very bothersome and there seems to be no end to the money being thrown at the problem just to keep the status quo for a few rich people. Robini was on the tv saying we are sure to have a big crash in the next 5 to 10 years. If I make it big in the markets someday, I think I'll buy a home on an island somewhere and stay there like an ostrich putting his head in the sand.

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  20. hi
    thx pred for ur thoughts, will also stick to plan playing marked from short side..dax important downwardtrendline is 6050 now, there would be nice place to open shorts with stop alittle above 6100....if 5900 breaks bevor iam also short in..

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  21. hi
    gold incredibel, somehow i never get gold right ,now miners that i sold are almost 10%higher hm hope for some pullback...

    have short line in place, dax managed to climb to my levls,but shorting eurostoxx is a safer bet..

    to rumors about gold and delivery, dont know if hedgefonds just try to get a higher price to unload,all i know is last week was just 3 days waiting time for physical gold..

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  22. play the miners. here is a good start.
    pal, swc, ssri, ego, anv, auy, svm, slw. oh and grs. good luck.

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  23. thx cbs
    after buy signal in yen crossings bull runs crazy again out of shorts hm

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  24. CNAM might have just turned today too..:)

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  26. Hi everyone,

    I thinking to close my treasurty long and will start to short,

    Will try to enter long in oil and commositites today ...


    Still mainain my sort in S&P.

    Cheer everyone

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  27. I think the fed have and the euro central bank have re-start QE again and i think this time will be in larger scale ..

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  28. tricky at moment some say now there are two puts in game, bernanke put and ezb put germany gains controll over ezb..so i keep away from dax shorts, lots of investment decisions are based on expectation of future exchange rates..dont matters what will happen in future in germany u have chance ending up in a strong currency..if the pigs leave eu or if germany leaves or dont know in lots of possibel futures ur ending there with exchange rate profit..capital is moving away from pigs i concentrated my shorts on ibex (spain)..how could they handel their problems more than 20% unemployment, still a housing bubble,communist party is gaining more power and so on,and now they should start to cut spending..that little i understand about economics that cannot work..

    @cbs to gold, normaly latecommers get punished,maybe gold has another 100 bugs..so iam carefully

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  29. Hi Allen

    I am like you wait to buy Atlower level. Let see how the market play out

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  30. I willl start to buy oil first target at 72.8.

    Now I think we are about to witness inflation and I think the Chinese is preparing to revalue yuan which we should prepare for this to happen sooner then everyone thought.

    Should this wonderful opportunty stock up oil

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  31. Hi Preditor!

    Is there any good oil etf:s you can recommend if you want to enter long. I also believe this looks like a good opportunity to buy oil. I am looking for an etf with good leverage.

    thanks,

    Daniel

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  32. Hi Daniel,

    I think it better to buy oil the commoditit will be better play

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  33. ok thanks
    I just came back from lunch and planned to add just after my lunch, expensive lunch I must say.

    Daniel

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  34. so today iam lucky with my shortline eurostoxx down 4% spain down more than 5%..took some profit half pos still in..

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  35. spain down 7%, finally happy end after a stupid week...

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  36. Congrat Allen.

    Looking good in my short euro dollar, short in s& p, and long on treasury. Took some from these position.


    Adding oil at 71.50

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  37. thx pred
    think we did pretty good..wanted to buy call on dax, but more than 30 points gap to cloase now i try on monday...
    oil i bought my stock omv to playit,but last week with not that good timing..

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  38. thx pred..
    think we both done very well, oil i bought my stock last week with not that good timing..cloased all shorts wanted to buy dax call but not more than 30 point above cloase..

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  39. hmpf bad english i mean this time i dont buy dax call future is 30 points above cloase..usually the frankfurt guys dont know what to do so early in morning, they cloase the gap and go for dinner and wait until us shows them what to do next hehe

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  40. I think we will more downward pressure in the market including gold. Now they are trying to tigger a pannic sell and panic buy.

    The trigger pannic sell in all asset class and at the same time panic rush into dollar and treasure.

    Every one to be carefully this should be a powerful bear market and everyone should becareful.

    So the dallor will rally together with treasury for a while . Be onthe short short side. And use this opportunity go long in commodities at cheaper level.

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  41. Hi everyone..

    I´ve noticed in timing charts that ins&p mini charts large traders started buying..and also small spec.

    Pred ..are you still believing we have more place to go down in s&p? perhaps...1100..1050? Do you have any target in the short side? Thank you

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  42. Preditor:

    I guess I sold my gold a little early at 1200, but I think you are right, gold may have some downward pressure.

    Crazy sell off in oil! Bought 20% of long position at 71.75. There was a gentleman on Teddy's site that claimed the Chicago oil pits wanted to sell oil to 60.00 on the previous thursday big sell off. Wow 60.00? Still, I plan to scale into the rest of the oil position as the spx sells off. Do you have any thoughts about this, is 60.00 just hot air and loud talk? Thanks

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  43. Hi bob,

    I sell sold my gold @ 1156 which I think it is a bit bumb for me to do given my bullish toward gold any choice is made cannot be undone.

    Regarding oil. I think it is a purify a pure speculation if you would like go sell at 60. Given the fact that the oil peek is a done deal . Now come think more deeply. The transocen incident. The oil is only to get more costly to drill upmore premium have to pay . So I notgoing to buy the news . The chinese and arab have fixe the price of the oil At 78.50. So of the guy go to the Chinese and offer at 65-70, the Chinese will willing to sign long term contract with them.

    Hi Andrea ..

    I think we will see some downward preside in s&p for the next few fading session. My target for s&p is about 1050-1080.

    Have a happy weekend every one

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  44. Hi Bob!
    May I ask you for the adress to Teddy's site. No offense Preditor. You are still no. 1:)

    Daniel

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