Sooooooooo…I guess theNobel Prize is going to wait, eh?

Anyway, it’s nice to wake up to a morning with so much red on the screen. The one huge exception is bonds, which are up over half a percent. I’m not worried, though. It’s all following a pattern. You can see the “big tops” (with little exploration zones, in grey) followed by a “V” shaped drop and retest. That’s all we are doing right now. We are in retest mode. I’m going to increase my January 2019 TLT puts this morning.

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As for equities, that is a happier situation. The huge bounce we got on Sunday due to the “China and the U.S. are totally buddies” announcement (see green tint) has been proved – – what word shall we use? – – irrelevant? Meaningless? A flash in the pan? I’ll leave it to your poetic license.