Latest / Financial Survival Network / Rebound or Recession? Market Warning Signs - Jim Welsh #6274
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- 0:00Speaker 1: So right now, the market I think is still of
- 0:02Speaker 1: the mind that we don't have to worry about a recession.
- 0:05Speaker 1: I mean, the risks are up a little bit, but
- 0:08Speaker 1: you know, things are all going to work out, deals
- 0:10Speaker 1: are going to be made, and everything's going to be
- 0:13Speaker 1: co pro setic. I'm just not in that camp. I
- 0:16Speaker 1: just think it's time to be a little bit more
- 0:18Speaker 1: skeptical of let's buy every dip and it's going to
- 0:22Speaker 1: be you know, Nirvana.
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- 0:51Speaker 3: And welcome you are listening to and watching the Financial
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- 0:55Speaker 1: I'm your os Kerrie Letz.
- 0:57Speaker 3: Well, if you're surprised about what happened, what's happened to
- 1:01Speaker 3: the market over the past couple of months, you shouldn't be,
- 1:03Speaker 3: because you'd been watching this show. You would have heard
- 1:06Speaker 3: Jim Welsh sounding the clarion call that trouble was ahead.
- 1:11Speaker 3: For the market, and you would have at least been prepared.
- 1:14Speaker 3: Probably wouldn't have done anything like I didn't, but nonetheless
- 1:19Speaker 3: at least you would have known. So Jim like, what
- 1:22Speaker 3: was the real tip off here back earlier in the
- 1:26Speaker 3: year that made you realize that the markets were headed lower?
- 1:30Speaker 1: Well, there was a combination of things. First was the perception.
- 1:34Speaker 1: And it's always great to join you, Carrie, and you're
- 1:36Speaker 1: going to be posting a piece on your website that
- 1:39Speaker 1: kind of covers some of the stuff that we're going
- 1:42Speaker 1: to talk about in greater details. I just wanted to
- 1:44Speaker 1: put that out there at the beginning. But at the
- 1:46Speaker 1: beginning of the years, you remember, everyone was pretty bold
- 1:49Speaker 1: up that President Trump was going to come in and
- 1:52Speaker 1: make a good economy even better, and most people thought
- 1:56Speaker 1: that in regards to tariffs, he was using the tariffs
- 2:01Speaker 1: as a negotiation ploy and that he would quickly roll
- 2:04Speaker 1: back as soon as he got some concessions. And Treasury
- 2:09Speaker 1: Secretary Bessen gave a speech in early February, and after
- 2:13Speaker 1: reading his comments, Carrie I came to the conclusion they
- 2:17Speaker 1: weren't going to be backing down. They were serious about
- 2:20Speaker 1: what they were going to do with the tariffs, the
- 2:24Speaker 1: trade negotiations, and that meant that the market wasn't prepared
- 2:30Speaker 1: for that event. And then technically what I had been
- 2:34Speaker 1: writing in January and February was as the SMP was
- 2:38Speaker 1: making new hides, the advanced Decline line was making a
- 2:42Speaker 1: lower peak. In fact, that peaked in November twenty ninth,
- 2:46Speaker 1: and historically Carrie actually going all the way back to
- 2:49Speaker 1: nineteen twenty eight. Divergence is between new highs and a
- 2:53Speaker 1: major average like the SMP or the Dow, whereas the
- 2:57Speaker 1: AD line making a lower high, that pretty much warned
- 3:01Speaker 1: of corrections. Now, if the reason to sell is minor,
- 3:05Speaker 1: then the correction is usually five to ten percent, but
- 3:08Speaker 1: the reason is somewhat more significant, and terrors fell into
- 3:12Speaker 1: that category. Declines of ten to twenty percent or even
- 3:16Speaker 1: bear markets showed up if indeed the economy ultimately went
- 3:19Speaker 1: into a recession. So though all those are all the reasons,
- 3:23Speaker 1: plus sentiment was really high and bullish in terms of
- 3:28Speaker 1: allocation to equities, and you know, when you add all
- 3:32Speaker 1: that off, it was the perfect cocktail, if you will,
- 3:35Speaker 1: for the market to be disappointed and then be vulnerable
- 3:39Speaker 1: to selling pressure, which is what we obviously saw especially
- 3:43Speaker 1: during the month of April.
- 3:44Speaker 3: All right, so we had the selling pressure, we had
- 3:47Speaker 3: a pullback, wasn't it was dramatic, but it really wasn't
- 3:51Speaker 3: that severe in terms of pullbacks, was it.
- 3:55Speaker 1: Well, twenty percent is pretty meaningful, and in terms of
- 3:59Speaker 1: the time impression, you know, that makes it even more meaningful.
- 4:03Speaker 1: At the same time the SMP then you know, off
- 4:06Speaker 1: that wall, I was expecting a rally and a couple
- 4:10Speaker 1: of weeks ago targeted fifty seven hundred to fifty seven
- 4:13Speaker 1: fifty for this rally, So you know the impact carry
- 4:17Speaker 1: when you have a sharp decline that is then reversed
- 4:21Speaker 1: relatively quickly. You know, the damage psychologically is obviously lessened.
- 4:27Speaker 1: But i've you and I have talked about this. The
- 4:30Speaker 1: bifurcation in the US economy is pretty extreme in the
- 4:33Speaker 1: sense the bottom fifty percent of people have been under
- 4:37Speaker 1: the gun from higher prices, higher cost of living, wages
- 4:41Speaker 1: not keeping up. And that's the part why President Trump
- 4:45Speaker 1: was elected. A lot of people who had never voted
- 4:48Speaker 1: for a Republican decided to do so because they remembered
- 4:51Speaker 1: back in twenty eighteen the economy was in better shape.
- 4:55Speaker 1: They were in better shape. The top ten percent now
- 4:59Speaker 1: account for fifty percent of consumer spending, so that has
- 5:04Speaker 1: been buttressed by the stock market doing well. Housing prices
- 5:08Speaker 1: gained fifty percent over the last four or five years.
- 5:12Speaker 1: So when we see acid prices start to falter, I
- 5:16Speaker 1: think that again is a warning that those at the
- 5:20Speaker 1: top who have been really carrying the spending load will
- 5:24Speaker 1: at some point in time start to become more cautious
- 5:27Speaker 1: and pull back. So, you know, I believe that we're
- 5:30Speaker 1: in a bear market and that the odds are we're
- 5:33Speaker 1: going to see the S and P go back down
- 5:36Speaker 1: to the loads that we saw on April seventh at
- 5:38Speaker 1: forty eight thirty five. And you know, I just think
- 5:43Speaker 1: that the repercussion from the terrafor the FED not doing anything,
- 5:48Speaker 1: the economy's going to slow. We're going to see unemployments
- 5:51Speaker 1: start to pick up. And you know, when you add
- 5:54Speaker 1: all that up together, it's the stock market priced for
- 5:57Speaker 1: all that. I don't think so.
- 6:01Speaker 3: So you don't think the tariff war is ending quickly,
- 6:05Speaker 3: I don't think so.
- 6:06Speaker 1: Again, Normally it takes eighteen months to come up with
- 6:09Speaker 1: a trade negotiated deal because they're an enormous amount of detail.
- 6:15Speaker 1: So what that suggests is what's going to happen in
- 6:17Speaker 1: the next few weeks is the administration will announce agreements
- 6:23Speaker 1: and principle well which we've agreed to a trade deal,
- 6:26Speaker 1: but now we're going to work out the details. And
- 6:28Speaker 1: as we all know, in any legal document which a
- 6:31Speaker 1: trade deal certainly qualifies, the devil is always in the details.
- 6:36Speaker 1: So I just think that, you know what that means
- 6:38Speaker 1: is down the road, there's hiccups that are going to happen.
- 6:42Speaker 1: So I just don't think that unless the tariffs. Right
- 6:47Speaker 1: now we're at a ten percent flat with obviously very
- 6:50Speaker 1: high tariffs against China, right ten percent tariff is up
- 6:53Speaker 1: from two percent. So if we even with the trade deals,
- 6:57Speaker 1: if we stay at ten percent, that is a significant
- 7:00Speaker 1: increase and the net result then I've written about this
- 7:03Speaker 1: a lot over the last year. You know, in nineteen
- 7:06Speaker 1: thirty Smooth Holly was passed and world trade dropped by
- 7:13Speaker 1: sixty five percent because everybody else, you know, started to
- 7:17Speaker 1: do the same thing. And we actually have seen carry
- 7:21Speaker 1: over the last five years more and more trade barriers
- 7:24Speaker 1: regulations being raised, not by just the US but globally.
- 7:30Speaker 1: So the ground is set, unfortunately to almost repeat some
- 7:34Speaker 1: of the experience of the nineteen thirties. Did you know
- 7:37Speaker 1: tariff's calls the Great Depression? Know, but they made the
- 7:41Speaker 1: global economy weaker than it otherwise would have been. And
- 7:45Speaker 1: I think they made that weakness be deeper and last longer.
- 7:49Speaker 1: So I'm not a big fan of terras. The longer
- 7:52Speaker 1: they persist, I think that is problematic for the economy. Yeah.
- 7:56Speaker 3: Well, you know, I'm a free trader myself, but when China,
- 8:05Speaker 3: you know, basically weaponizes free trade, yep, then you got
- 8:10Speaker 3: to do something that maybe isn't for the short term
- 8:13Speaker 3: good of the country or the world, but it has
- 8:17Speaker 3: to stop. And you know, I've been reading about this
- 8:20Speaker 3: for decades already. They just ignore the wto, they ignore
- 8:25Speaker 3: all the rules. So it's got to be done. And
- 8:29Speaker 3: it's a big excrement sandwich. But we all got to
- 8:32Speaker 3: think a bite.
- 8:33Speaker 1: I've ever heard that expression? Yeah, well, I agree with you.
- 8:37Speaker 1: To me, it all comes down to the manner in
- 8:40Speaker 1: which it's being done, you know, basically starting with a
- 8:44Speaker 1: punch to the jaw as opposed to you got thirty
- 8:47Speaker 1: days to come to the table and come up with
- 8:50Speaker 1: an agreement in principle to work out our trade difficence
- 8:53Speaker 1: and if you don't, this is what we're going to do.
- 8:57Speaker 1: So I agree entirely that since joining the World Trade
- 9:01Speaker 1: Organization since two thousand and one, and we urged that
- 9:04Speaker 1: Bill Clinton was very much in favor, both Democrats and
- 9:08Speaker 1: Republicans voted for that to take place. But China has
- 9:13Speaker 1: obviously capitalized on that and to the detriment and not
- 9:18Speaker 1: just US, but other training partners around the world.
- 9:21Speaker 3: Everyone nobody is happy with him, and especially after COVID,
- 9:25Speaker 3: now that we have pretty good evidence that it came
- 9:29Speaker 3: from a lab league there, even though the United States
- 9:32Speaker 3: self funded, which is a story for another's dillionary.
- 9:37Speaker 1: But you know, enough is.
- 9:40Speaker 3: Enough already, Yeah, and you know it had to end,
- 9:44Speaker 3: and yeah, maybe there is a better way to do it.
- 9:47Speaker 3: But the difference is that you know, Trump knows g
- 9:54Speaker 3: and he worked on this before. And we're not even
- 9:58Speaker 3: mentioning the fentanyl, which for China is revenge for the
- 10:02Speaker 3: opium wars, you know.
- 10:04Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well no, again, all this is warranted. It
- 10:08Speaker 1: just comes down to the manner which they're doing it.
- 10:11Speaker 1: At the same time, I think President Trump and his
- 10:13Speaker 1: administration to understand the clock is ticking. The midterm elections
- 10:18Speaker 1: are what eighteen twenty months away or something, you know,
- 10:21Speaker 1: not that far off, So they need to accomplish an
- 10:24Speaker 1: awful lot very very quickly, so that whatever fallout and
- 10:28Speaker 1: damage does happen, there's still a window of time where
- 10:32Speaker 1: the economy can recover and show improvement going into the
- 10:37Speaker 1: midterm elections.
- 10:38Speaker 3: I totlly agree with you, Well, what about DOGE Now
- 10:42Speaker 3: that initially has a deflationary effect because all this money,
- 10:47Speaker 3: all the grifters aren't getting paid now, right, so they're
- 10:52Speaker 3: in a recession. And then the federal employees, who you know,
- 10:58Speaker 3: basically I always say a federal worker government worker is
- 11:03Speaker 3: a bit of an oxy moron. But you know, there's
- 11:08Speaker 3: a lot of them that are hitting the bricks, and
- 11:12Speaker 3: you know, in the long run that is the best thing,
- 11:14Speaker 3: because they're total parasites and unproductive and destructive, going against
- 11:21Speaker 3: the country's best interest.
- 11:23Speaker 1: Right, yeah again. A year ago, in April last year,
- 11:27Speaker 1: the General Accountability Office, which was started in nineteen twenty
- 11:31Speaker 1: one nonpartisan entity, came out with report carry and said
- 11:36Speaker 1: somewhere between two hundred and thirty billion, hundred and five
- 11:40Speaker 1: hundred and twenty billion of waste and fraud is happening
- 11:43Speaker 1: every single year. President Biden did not do anything. And
- 11:48Speaker 1: the fact that Elon Musk Indulge are going after a
- 11:52Speaker 1: problem that was identified by a non partisan entity, to me,
- 11:58Speaker 1: should tell anyone who's objective everything we need to know.
- 12:03Speaker 1: There is a lot of waste in fraud. And so
- 12:06Speaker 1: I commend that because when you start saying, okay, oh,
- 12:09Speaker 1: maybe they only found one hundred and fifty billion, I
- 12:11Speaker 1: suspect it's going to war. But you multiplied that about
- 12:14Speaker 1: ten years. Yeah, so far you know, one and a
- 12:17Speaker 1: half trillion dollars. So it's very meaningful, and it does
- 12:22Speaker 1: to send a message to government workers and maybe to
- 12:27Speaker 1: politicians who supported some of this stuff and continue to
- 12:31Speaker 1: support some of.
- 12:31Speaker 3: The both sides of the aisle.
- 12:34Speaker 1: Are police trouble here, right, no question, no question. So
- 12:40Speaker 1: I you know, I support what Musk is doing. And
- 12:45Speaker 1: you know, sometimes the louder people squeal at something tells
- 12:48Speaker 1: you something about those people.
- 12:50Speaker 3: Pigs always squeal, Jim, you know, when they're being led
- 12:54Speaker 3: off the slaughter. And how could any thinking politician, any
- 13:01Speaker 3: any citizen of the country have any issue with what's
- 13:04Speaker 3: being done there. They're finding, you know, billions and billions
- 13:09Speaker 3: and they haven't even hit their strudge yet. I mean
- 13:12Speaker 3: only get that he's only been there one hundred days,
- 13:15Speaker 3: so that maybe will be his greatest contribution this time
- 13:19Speaker 3: around that he put an end to it and said
- 13:22Speaker 3: no mos right.
- 13:23Speaker 1: Right right, And you know what I mean. Last time
- 13:25Speaker 1: we've spoken before that you know, Besson has said the
- 13:29Speaker 1: goal is to get the deficit from over six percent
- 13:31Speaker 1: of GDP, which it was last year and the year before.
- 13:35Speaker 1: Has never happened in the history of our country where
- 13:39Speaker 1: you had a six percent plus on deficit during a
- 13:43Speaker 1: time when the economy's gone to and a half percent
- 13:45Speaker 1: and peace and peace piece at least. Yeah, not so.
- 13:49Speaker 1: But when you go from three six percent to three,
- 13:52Speaker 1: that's shaving a trillion dollars worth of government spending. So
- 13:54Speaker 1: as you said at the very beginning, was well, when
- 13:58Speaker 1: you cut back on spending, it does have deflationary effects
- 14:02Speaker 1: because the economy is going to grow more slowly when
- 14:06Speaker 1: you eliminate that kind of spending. So you know, again,
- 14:11Speaker 1: I think the economy is going to slow more than
- 14:14Speaker 1: maybe people expect. The other issue regarding everything that's going
- 14:18Speaker 1: on is uncertainty. So there was a survey of CEOs
- 14:21Speaker 1: over the last few months and in January carry sixty percent.
- 14:26Speaker 1: We're expecting to increase investment capital spending, We're expected to
- 14:33Speaker 1: add more hires and bring more people on work. In
- 14:37Speaker 1: March or part of the April survey, those were cut
- 14:40Speaker 1: in half. Like now it's thirty percent. So you have
- 14:43Speaker 1: a lot of people sitting on their hands, which again
- 14:45Speaker 1: isn't great for economic growth. And potentially, you know, if
- 14:49Speaker 1: everything gets resolved quickly, then some of that will come
- 14:52Speaker 1: on board. But those are all the reasons why again
- 14:56Speaker 1: I think the economy is going to slow. And the
- 14:57Speaker 1: one thing I want to touch on real quick. You know,
- 15:00Speaker 1: the employment report came out and everybody, well, look at
- 15:02Speaker 1: that one hundred and seventy seven thousand jobs rush. It
- 15:05Speaker 1: was a decent number, Okay, they actually there was I
- 15:08Speaker 1: think a reduction of seven thousand government workers. So as
- 15:12Speaker 1: opposed the last twenty months or so, were they all go,
- 15:15Speaker 1: I don't know, they're walking the brick somewhere. But my
- 15:18Speaker 1: point is underneath the surface, if you look at the
- 15:21Speaker 1: weekly claims report, the length of time that people are
- 15:26Speaker 1: on employment has continued to increase. So what does that
- 15:29Speaker 1: tell us is that companies aren't laying people off, but
- 15:33Speaker 1: they have in fact, as that CEO service yes all right,
- 15:38Speaker 1: and also continuing claims is up over one point nine million,
- 15:45Speaker 1: So it's just validating. What we're seeing is that slowly
- 15:49Speaker 1: but surely the labor market is weakening, and if the
- 15:52Speaker 1: economy slows, the next shooter drop will be companies laying
- 15:55Speaker 1: off workers. Unfortunately, the unemployment rate is a lagging in
- 16:00Speaker 1: the care and the FED is kind of like stuck. Well,
- 16:04Speaker 1: we're going to probably see higher prices at least for
- 16:06Speaker 1: some period of time from the tariffs, but we're waiting
- 16:09Speaker 1: on the unemployment rate to tick up, which I think
- 16:12Speaker 1: it will, and they said in the March Summary of
- 16:17Speaker 1: Economic Projections that they think the unemployment rate will get
- 16:21Speaker 1: up to four to four by the end of this year.
- 16:23Speaker 1: In April was four to two. So the point I've
- 16:26Speaker 1: been making is, yes, the FED is going to be
- 16:27Speaker 1: paying attention to inflation, they're going to pay more attention
- 16:30Speaker 1: to the unemployment rate, and if it gets above four
- 16:33Speaker 1: to four, then I think the FED will feel much
- 16:37Speaker 1: more comfortable in moving to cut rates because it'll be
- 16:42Speaker 1: clear that it's warranted. And not because President Trump criticized Paul,
- 16:48Speaker 1: but that economic data has shown them that Yep, it's
- 16:52Speaker 1: time to cut. So I think that's what's coming. It's
- 16:55Speaker 1: just a question of how soon is it going to arrive.
- 16:58Speaker 3: Well, my guess is when you're dealing with Jerome Powell,
- 17:03Speaker 3: he's always late to the party, right.
- 17:06Speaker 1: Well, that historically has been not just Powell, but almost
- 17:08Speaker 1: every FED president because they do wait for the unemployment
- 17:11Speaker 1: rate to tick higher and again by the time companies
- 17:14Speaker 1: are laying workers off, because that's the other reason, you know,
- 17:17Speaker 1: already too late. It's already too late. I mean, employers
- 17:20Speaker 1: will resist laying people off, the cut hours to do
- 17:23Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff because they don't want to let
- 17:26Speaker 1: an experienced workers leave and go especially So yeah, so
- 17:30Speaker 1: by the time it's like, I don't know the choice,
- 17:32Speaker 1: I got to let some people go. The economy obviously
- 17:35Speaker 1: already is weakening, their sales are dropping. They have to
- 17:39Speaker 1: do it. So, by its nature, monetary policy is conducted
- 17:43Speaker 1: by looking through the rear view mirror of our car.
- 17:46Speaker 1: And by the time the cars over the cliff, the
- 17:49Speaker 1: Feds say, oh my god, we're over the cliff. We
- 17:51Speaker 1: better cut rights. So they're always late.
- 17:53Speaker 3: They're like Jimmy James Dean in Rebel without a Cause
- 17:58Speaker 3: right where they're having that little game.
- 18:00Speaker 1: Is to see who's caress.
- 18:03Speaker 3: Yeah, who can jump out of the car foot first?
- 18:06Speaker 1: Yeah, well the last guy to go win. Yeah, unforsutly
- 18:09Speaker 1: that guy was the last guy, excepted it.
- 18:12Speaker 3: Might be oriental, he wins.
- 18:16Speaker 1: I think as it. Yeah, it's a great scene. It's
- 18:18Speaker 1: really great scene.
- 18:19Speaker 3: So that's like something the Federal Reserve. Well, we always
- 18:24Speaker 3: date ourselves, you know that.
- 18:26Speaker 1: People have to look at the screen.
- 18:28Speaker 3: Experience is always about dating yourself. Yes, it's not our
- 18:32Speaker 3: first rodeo here, Jim, right.
- 18:34Speaker 1: No, it isn't. And we have the bumps and bruises
- 18:36Speaker 1: to prove it.
- 18:38Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and the uh and the higher insurance premiums
- 18:43Speaker 3: as well.
- 18:44Speaker 1: So I yes, yeah, so all right.
- 18:48Speaker 3: So but the market, the market's going to take a hit,
- 18:51Speaker 3: but then it's going to it's a leading indicator. It's
- 18:54Speaker 3: going to see that uh, you know, it's going to
- 18:57Speaker 3: look ahead eighteen months.
- 18:58Speaker 1: Right. Well, here's the thing. People always say the market's
- 19:01Speaker 1: a discounting mechanism, that it's looking ahead, and yes, it
- 19:05Speaker 1: does do that, but the reality is it often at
- 19:08Speaker 1: important junctures gets it wrong. I mean we just saw
- 19:11Speaker 1: one in January. People were looking ahead. Trump is going
- 19:14Speaker 1: to make the economy better. Oh yeah, tariffs are going
- 19:17Speaker 1: to make the dollar go up. And what happened. The
- 19:20Speaker 1: dollar dropped ten percent in a very quick period of time.
- 19:24Speaker 1: The SMB dropped by twenty percent. So for me, carry
- 19:27Speaker 1: the idea that markets somehow have more greater or greater
- 19:32Speaker 1: vision in knowledge than we do, I think it's a joke,
- 19:37Speaker 1: because that's why contrary opinion, my view is a much
- 19:42Speaker 1: more powerful thing. So when everyone was bullisht a dollar
- 19:45Speaker 1: in January, I'm looking at charts and just common sense saying, no,
- 19:49Speaker 1: I think the dollar is ready to drop below one hundred.
- 19:52Speaker 1: It was that one ten. Oh the market, Oh yeah,
- 19:54Speaker 1: everybody's bulled up on the market. I think Trump is
- 19:58Speaker 1: serious about the tariffs. They're not not expecting that that
- 20:01Speaker 1: gives them more reason to sell. So right now, the
- 20:04Speaker 1: market I think is still of the mind that we
- 20:06Speaker 1: don't have to worry about a recession. I mean, the
- 20:09Speaker 1: risks are up a little bit, but you know, things
- 20:11Speaker 1: are all going to work out. Deals are going to
- 20:13Speaker 1: be made, and everything's going to be copro setic. I'm
- 20:18Speaker 1: just not in that camp. I just think it's time
- 20:20Speaker 1: to be a little bit more skeptical of let's buy
- 20:23Speaker 1: every dip and it's going to be you know, Nirvana.
- 20:26Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know the miracle is central planning.
- 20:30Speaker 1: Right, yeah, miracle with a small M.
- 20:35Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, because we've been down this road before, we knew,
- 20:40Speaker 3: we totally knew.
- 20:41Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah. And so one thing you touch on and
- 20:44Speaker 1: again you're going to be posting as peasy to sent you.
- 20:48Speaker 1: But one of the talking about the last two three
- 20:51Speaker 1: weeks is positioning in the Dollar index has gotten very extreme.
- 20:56Speaker 1: In other words, it's just dropped ten percent and people
- 20:58Speaker 1: are going short the dollar long other currencies, anticipation that
- 21:03Speaker 1: is going to keep going, and the level of bearish
- 21:06Speaker 1: positioning Carrie is more extreme now than it was in
- 21:11Speaker 1: October of twenty twenty three, and any other intermediate bottom
- 21:16Speaker 1: over the last year or so that the dollar has made. Plus,
- 21:22Speaker 1: the chart pattern as I described in that piece suggests
- 21:26Speaker 1: that after the dollar peaked at one fourteen seventy in
- 21:30Speaker 1: October of twenty twenty two, it went through a big
- 21:34Speaker 1: sideways type of correction down to one ten or one
- 21:37Speaker 1: hundred part meeting ninety nine up to one oh seven
- 21:42Speaker 1: down to ninety nine up to one ten. I think
- 21:44Speaker 1: it's completed this correction from that high in October of
- 21:48Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. There may be one more dip below
- 21:52Speaker 1: the low recently of ninety seven to ninety two, but
- 21:56Speaker 1: beyond that, I think the dollar is going to surprise
- 21:58Speaker 1: people carry in rap more.
- 22:01Speaker 3: I agree with you one hundred percent. Uh, you know,
- 22:05Speaker 3: I'm just expecting it because it's right now hitting resistance.
- 22:08Speaker 3: That one hundred is yeah, massive resistance.
- 22:12Speaker 1: Yeah, it was support so it makes sense that it's
- 22:15Speaker 1: overhead resistance. And so again the chart pens suggests it
- 22:19Speaker 1: could have one more drop because the RSI got extraordinarily
- 22:25Speaker 1: over sold when it dropped to that ninety seven ninety
- 22:28Speaker 1: two was down to like twenty one, So it wouldn't
- 22:31Speaker 1: you know, that's another reason why you get a bounce
- 22:33Speaker 1: to relieve how oversold it is, then go down, take
- 22:36Speaker 1: a make a lower low, and then register a higher
- 22:40Speaker 1: r side level, which then provides you know, a momentum
- 22:43Speaker 1: non confirmation, which in this case is supportive of the bottom.
- 22:47Speaker 3: Yeah, short short covering rally.
- 22:50Speaker 1: And that's how it all readys starts. You know, when
- 22:52Speaker 1: you have a lot of people betting against something and
- 22:54Speaker 1: they're short. The initial rally is maybe it's not going
- 22:57Speaker 1: to go down as much as we thought one hund percent?
- 23:00Speaker 3: Right always, ohways the case?
- 23:03Speaker 1: All right? Yeah? Yeah. Link.
- 23:05Speaker 3: The link is in the show notes this interview on
- 23:08Speaker 3: Financial Survival Network and in the show notes on the
- 23:11Speaker 3: podcast everything else on YouTube. It'll be hooked into my dropbox.
- 23:17Speaker 3: Just tell tell everyone out there, Jim, how you how
- 23:21Speaker 3: you subscribe and what the deal is?
- 23:24Speaker 1: Okay, okay? One of that's comment. If I'm right about
- 23:26Speaker 1: the dollar of you two or write about the dollar,
- 23:28Speaker 1: I don't think that's a positive for gold. So I
- 23:31Speaker 1: think gold has a pullback at least to thirty one hundred.
- 23:35Speaker 1: I think it possibly could get down towards twenty six hundred.
- 23:38Speaker 1: So that's you know again, remember in September October of
- 23:42Speaker 1: twenty two, gold bottom that sixteen hundred as the dollar
- 23:45Speaker 1: was topping. So remember it's yan yang I think is important.
- 23:48Speaker 1: All right, macrotides dot com. If you would like a
- 23:51Speaker 1: recent publication, Jim Welsh macro at gmail, I'm happy to
- 23:56Speaker 1: send out like the May issue of macro Tides or
- 24:01Speaker 1: one of my recent which I publish every Monday, weekly
- 24:04Speaker 1: technical reviews.
- 24:06Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, excellent. Hey you got a question for
- 24:09Speaker 3: Jim or myself, shoot me an email kl at Carrie
- 24:12Speaker 3: LUTs dot com. We answer everything. Jim, appreciate you coming on,
- 24:16Speaker 3: been a while, and we'll talk to you again real soon.
- 24:18Speaker 1: You got it, Thanks, Carrie, stay well.
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