Event risk is looming in the financial markets.
On a scale of 1 to 10 this week's calendar event risk is a 12. We will be hearing about home data, employment data, manufacturing data, and sentiment data all while attempting to digest a mid-week Fed meeting (did I mention the State of the Union Address?). Economic data has been consistently strong; it doesn't make sense to expect otherwise. Yet, the financial markets have reacted to both good and bad data in the same manner (buy stocks, sell bonds, sell the dollar, etc.). If there is anything that could change that pattern, it would be a good old-fashioned price squeeze. Big events such as Fed meetings and payroll reports are often the catalyst for such last hurrah trend extensions followed by eventual reversals. This week feels like it is setting up to be one of those times.
Treasury Futures Markets
Treasuries are likely in store for one more round of long-squeezing before turning the corner.
Despite relatively high yields and low default risk, Treasuries haven't been able to find buyers. In the short-run this makes sense; investors are chasing momentum not yield. However, in the long-run higher-yielding Treasuries will lure money away from the equity markets.
With stocks, bonds, and currencies at extremes and with speculators so heavily loaded in directional trend trades, we have a feeling the exhaustion of these moves is looming. Further, the inflection point could be on the heels of either the Fed meeting on Wednesday or the payroll report on Friday.
If you are a bond bull, look to try to get in on a dip into the 147/146 range in the ZB and the mid-to-low-121s in the 10-year note.
Treasury Futures Market Analysis
**Bond Futures Market Consensus:** Treasuries were weaker than we originally anticipated. However, the bulls should get a good opportunity on one more probing low (146/147 in the 30-year).
**Technical Support:** ZB : 147'31, 147'18, 147'0, and 146'12 ZN: 121'17 and 121'01
**Technical Resistance:** ZB: 150'09 151'03 and 154'08 ZN: 123'05, 124'10 and 126'20
Stock Index Futures Markets
Euphoria is in the air, will it ever clear?
This market has thrown sentiment contrarian indicators and technical oscillators out the window. The only thing driving prices is emotion and FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). Most oscillators applied to a chart of any time frame (monthly, weekly, daily) suggest this is the most overbought the stock market has been in decades, or possibly even ever. As we have all been reminded, overbought doesn't necessarily mean there will be sellers. Afterall, buying is FOMO driven...not price driven, nor does it have to be logical.
The chart suggests the next up-move should run into resistance near 2893. Based on previous rallies going into a Fed meeting, we believe there is a good chance of this price being seen by the end of the week (we aren't necessarily bullish, we are just identifying the pattern). If this price is seen, it might be a place for the bears to give the downside a shot (assuming there are any left with the funds to play).
On the flip side, if prices break below 2852 the bears might finally get some relief.
Stock Index Futures Market Ideas
**E-mini S&P 500 Futures Market Consensus:**
Technical oscillators on all time-frames have been perpetually overbought. How long can this last?
**Technical Support:** 2852, 2873, 2735, and 2667
**Technical Resistance:** 2893 and 2902
E-mini S&P Futures Day Trading Ideas
**These are counter-trend entry ideas, the more distant the level the more reliable but the less likely to get filled**
ES Day Trade Sell Levels: 2881, 2887, and 2893
ES Day Trade Buy Levels: 2856, 2829, 2801, and 2790
In other commodity futures and options markets....
November 1 - Bull call spread with a naked leg in May corn (buy the May 3.70 call, sell the 4.00 call and the 3.50 put). The cost of the trade is 3 to 4 cents, the risk is open under 3.50, the profit potential is roughly 26 cents or $1,300.
December 12 - Buy back 4.00 corn call to lock in small gain and open the trade to upside profits if the market reverses.
January 22 - Buy March 10-year note 123 calls for about 17 ticks.
January 25 - Buy March crude oil 62.50 put near 28 cents.
Seasonality is already factored into current prices, any references to such does not indicate future market action.
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