Something like this, here... I think we should see a buy signal here first, although, of course, the boyz might be informed in advance -g- The printing really started in early December 2008, but it drastically picked up speed in March 2009, as the market continued to tank. I became bullish way too early, in December 2008, once I saw the start of the printing. However, many global markets did bottom in October 2008....
federalreserve.gov
Release Date: March 18, 2009
"To provide greater support to mortgage lending and housing markets, the Committee decided today to increase the size of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet further by purchasing up to an additional $750 billion of agency mortgage-backed securities, bringing its total purchases of these securities to up to $1.25 trillion this year, and to increase its purchases of agency debt this year by up to $100 billion to a total of up to $200 billion. Moreover, to help improve conditions in private credit markets, the Committee decided to purchase up to $300 billion of longer-term Treasury securities over the next six months." |