Futures Trading Update

Futures Market Insight w/John Caruso – 10/09/2019

Posted 10/09/2019 3:35PM CTJohn Caruso

Just so you know, yesterday Fed Chairman Powell unofficially announced QE4 was happening.  In the meantime, via repo facility operations, the Feds balance sheet has already expanded by $162B.  Looks to be approx. 20.8B per month worth of asset purchases coming up starting in November 2019 thru April 2020.

In the event of this “unofficial” announcement of QE, Trump has elevated the trade war, blacklisting some 28 Chinese companies (largely tech companies) due to Chinese human rights violations, and now banning visas on Chinese officials linked to the mass Muslims detention facility. Still, there remains some optimism that the U.S./China can reach an interim deal – basically just kicking the can down the road on the bigger issues at hand.

We’ve been expecting this reaction by the Fed. This is likely the beginning of the Fed’s attempt to reflate asset prices via weakening the U.S. dollar. However, will the Fed be “dovish” enough remains the question. We do happen to think they’ll get it right this time – which will pull us out of the growth/inflation slowing economic back drop and into a more favorable set-up in terms of inflation (the verdict is still out on whether Growth accels or decels in Q4).  Regardless, a period of “re-flation” will be bullish for commodity assets (Which is why we’ve taken a strong interest in the LONG SIDE OF ENERGY).

Data Grind (from Monday-Today)-

Japan:
Leading Economic Index – in at 91.7 down from 93.7 previously

Europe:
German Factory Orders declined to -6.7% y/y
German Industrial Production ticked higher m/m by 0.3% BUT remains -4.0% y/y
Italian Retail Sales -0.6% m/m and slipping to 0.7% y/y

US:
Producer Price Index fell by -0.3% m/m to 1.4% y/y down from 1.8%
Consumer Price Index comes out TOMORROW.

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John Caruso

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Follow John on Twitter @JCarusoRJO. John began his career at Wilshire Quinn Capital, a Wealth Management Firm based out of Los Angeles, California. John made his move to the commodity industry at the end of 2005, and began his path at Lind Waldock, at the time the largest retail brokerage division worldwide. John did his undergraduate work at Robert Morris University in Pennsylvania from 1999-2003, where he was a 4 year varsity basketball letterman.  A self-professed “Macro Trader”, John uses a multi-factor fundamental and “quantamental” trading model in distinguishing market cycles based upon the accelerations or decelerations of growth and inflation metrics. His technical and quantitative approach is heavily reliant upon trend and market range analysis via a custom built standard deviation system in helping him make probability-based market decisions. John is an avid reader of all things pertaining to finance, and behavioral economics. Click here to sign-up for John Caruso's Trading Coach Insights. Daily information and insight on all futures marketsin ranging from metals to equities.
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