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Strategies & Market Trends : John Pitera's Market Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Pitera who wrote (18073)	3/31/2016 12:35:14 PM
From: The Ox	Respond to of 33421

I've been on the sidelines but watching Copper, Silver and Gold. If...big if...the FED errors on the side of allowing inflation to gain steam, they should all do very well over time. Demand side of the equation has been muted, to say the least but there are plenty of infrastructure projects that clearly need to be started and soon. After close to 15 years of belt tightening, it would be nice to see the purse strings start to loosen in that area!!

To: John Pitera who wrote (18073)	3/31/2016 1:28:44 PM
From: The Ox	1 Recommendation Recommended By Davy Crockett Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33421

I've been under the impression that the USD index was a "buy the rumor, sell the news" setup. The huge ramp up in anticipation of the first FED hike caused all kinds of disconnects in the global currency markets. These have mostly been "digested" over the past few months as the pressures have been let out slowly. Chip's terrific chart with the Andrews pitchforks show this beautifully on the USD but I suggest that looking around at the Euro, Yen and other currencies show similar "revisions to the short term mean". Now that the worry over too many hikes, too fast has been put to rest, we've seen a nice "breather" which I'm sure many believe is, or want to read into as, weakness.