A solid jobs report, and an unemployment rate of 4.3%, is giving the markets some much-needed direction (how about that… 95.7% are working! Although some might say it’s more like 63%… but I digress). This is strengthening the dollar, as I’ve been hoping it would… and like I wrote about two days ago.

At the moment, this is having the intended effect on gold, which is to weaken it. I am presenting short GLD and long JDST. Here’s what the front month is doing, and my desired direction.

Interesting, equities seem completely bored with the strong jobs. As I am typing this, the NQ is up all of six-hundredths of a single percentage point, which kind of suggests economic strength and robust jobs are sort of already factored in fully.