About Face Rave Reviews Scared Money
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About Face Rave Reviews Scared Money
This morning investors are digging out of their foxholes as the assault continued into the night with some lackluster earnings reports. The Rainmaker Report is a high-level executive summary of global financial markets. This daily dossier is written by a Wall St. veteran with a unique perspective on markets. With actionable information including specific trade recommendations, technical analysis and unfiltered commentary, this is the only analysis you need to read every day to stay informed when it comes to finance, politics, and your money. First off, Walmart came out and guided down on Full year 2015 revenue figures. They didn’t blame Ebola. They just brought down the revenue line. Netflix (15 minute chart) German 10 year yields plunged down to .71%!!! Today is Thursday, October 16th ,2014: About Face It’s like the S&P has Ebola!! Rave Reviews And speaking of Ebola, Long Treasury bonds are going to trade like Ebola Vaccines….in West Africa today. Scared Money “Everyone Knows” Good Morning. Well, that escalated quickly. Yesterday was big. Stocks were beaten mercilessly as the Dow plunged 470 sticks before the authorities had to come in and break up the party. Next up Netflix was burnt down for 117 handles in the aftermath of a guide down for Q4. That’s why I call this Blockbuster Video Jr®. Finally Ebay missed on top and bottom lines with some tempering of expectations following their latest data breach. So, the bad news is that things are just as bad as yesterday, with Europe actually being worse. Way worse. Bond yields had their wildest day in recent memory, with the 10 year Treasury making an unprecedented 30 bps rip, then dip. Same with 5’s – 30’s as the entire Treasury curve ripped then dipped. ©Rainmaker Report, LLC | All rights reserved | Do Not Duplicate This morning the S&P is bright red, with futures trading down an entire percent to test 1825 and falling fast. So before we get into the post mortem from yesterday’s wild action, let’s review what we said first thing yesterday morning before the bloodshed: Let’s tighten up with a talk about the reality. Things are moving much faster than you probably ever thought they could. If you had been doubting the Rainmaker, you are probably thinking twice now. 1 www.rainmakerinvestor.com @sleevesrolled stock markets and declining bond yields suggest the deflation risk hasn’t gone away, particularly in the often-frenetic eyes of investors. These emerging threats come as the Federal Reserve is on track this month to end a bond-buying program that has been one of the main tools in its fight against falling prices. The move is going to get big now. Investors are just about to come to the realization that deflation is the risk, and has been the risk all along. When they find out they are wrong, there is going to be a massive repositioning in the long end of the Treasury Curve. So just as I was sending out my paper yesterday morning, the panic escalated and spilled over into the short end of the curve, where more than one report came in of Shoulder Tap Outs for short Treasury traders. The 10 year yield fell from 2.20 to 1.86% in 40 minutes. That is unprecedented! How many dimwits are still short on the long bond? All the money in TBT, (which we can take all of) if we are smart. Perhaps more important than the market action is the new tone of the market. The word deflation is part of every segment now. Ebola is too, but Ebola is temporary, and Deflation is permanent. Now Fed officials are playing defense instead of the snarky remarks about the market not respecting the Fed’s bullshit interest rate path. Rates are going down from here. That is the reality. Get on board or get out of the way. Ok, next we have to move onto a Jon Hilsenrath piece with the Catchy Title: Risk of Deflation Feeds Global Fears Behind the spate of market turmoil lurks a worry that top policy makers thought they’d beaten back a few years ago: the specter of deflation. A general fall in consumer prices emerged as a big concern after the 2008 financial crisis because it summoned memories of deep and lingering downturns like the Great Depression and two decades of lost growth in Japan. The world’s central banks in recent years have used a variety of easymoney policies to fight its debilitating effects. Now, fresh signs of slow global economic growth, falling commodities prices, sagging ©Rainmaker Report, LLC | All rights reserved | Do Not Duplicate 2 So let’s start at the beginning. Jon Hilsenrath is finally admitting to the deflation we have always pointed to. This is an about face for Jon, because this is what he said just 4 weeks ago: “I think They feel that they are past the deflation scare.” “Right now Deflation is Europe’s problem. Europe’s worry. They saw the very low inflation rates last year near 1% as temporary and distorted and they see inflation picking up closer to 2% now. “ “So they are not so worried about deflation.” “They do want to see inflation continue to rise toward their 2% goal, it’s been below it for more than 2 years. They want to see it continue to increase.” “But they are not worried about deflation.” … “They do not want to prematurely tighten credit because they do not want to send the economy back into recession.” www.rainmakerinvestor.com @sleevesrolled “In part because they don’t have a lot of tools to deal with an economy in recession. Interest rates are so low you can’t cut them anymore.” “If you went back into a recession they’d have to get back into this whole QE drama, we’d be on QE 5, 6, and 7.” “Janet Yellen really doesn’t want to go there and move the balance sheet to 7 trillion dollars” “She doesn’t want to have to make promises that interest rates are going to stay near zero until my kids get out of graduate school.” You have a job to do now Jon. It is your DUTY to get in front of this idea of deflation and give your readers the proper tools to understand the invisible economic force. And if you see Chewy in the hallways, tell him I said he was dead wrong too. “So there’s an argument, a strong argument inside the Fed, for really waiting until you are sure you see serious traction in this economy before you start raising rates.” You could probably just reprint a bunch of old Rainmaker Reports, if we had a licensing deal in place… “We’ve gotten past that discussion for the most part whether we are in a deflation risk right now.” But really, it is time to stop this game of playing stupid. Ok, deflation is the issue. Let’s get our resources positioned properly and attack it, instead of sit back and let it eat away at our stack. -Sudeep Reddy “That is the late and fast approach, as opposed to the soon and slow approach. And they haven’t resolved it yet, they are talking about it right now.” So, 4 weeks later we can all return to this step by step directions for the Fed to continue with “QE 5, 6, and 7.” Wrong. I am going to be watching you close here Jon. Don’t f@ck around. You forgot 4 Jon. But more importantly, you were wrong and the Rainmaker was right. This chart = Deflation, Chewy. ©Rainmaker Report, LLC | All rights reserved | Do Not Duplicate 3 www.rainmakerinvestor.com @sleevesrolled Ok, so now it is time to talk about beer. We have been hosting this giant beer party for 2 weeks now and it is starting to get rowdy. First, we should remind readers about what we were thinking on October 1st: “I would also be setting up a Giant Tent in the long end of the Treasury Curve.” “I would drink beer in that tent until everyone finally shows up to the idea that we are in deflation and that the long end of the curve was always the place to be.” “Then I will buy everybody a beer, and celebrate while I count the money that used to be theirs.” As far as the party, it was completely awesome. Wall to Wall people paying us while we guzzled beer and high fived each other. So yesterday as the entire world rushed to buy Treasury bonds at the same time, our beer tent party filled to capacity. I started thinking that the party might be coming to an end soon since we hit our target of 2% on the 10 year and 2.80% on the 30 year yesterday morning. 10 year yields fell to a stunning 1.86% before the authorities had to step in with the defibrillator paddles and save a few market participants from death by P/L asphyxiation. People stepped in and (we) emptied their pockets as they covered their short bets across the long end. The Plunge Protection Team DEFINITELY came in yesterday to protect a complete free fall. Make sure you understand that. But it didn’t stop our beer party! Maybe we can have an afterparty where we keep dancing until the break of dawn…. -The Rainmaker ©Rainmaker Report, LLC | All rights reserved | Do Not Duplicate But I’m still not tired. Beer is almost kicked so we are going to have to figure out how we can keep this party going. 4 www.rainmakerinvestor.com @sleevesrolled Do you know how I feel when I hear that? Remember, the party is far from over. We will find out today that a hedge fund exploded yesterday morning as yields spiked lower. Could have saved your entire company if you just listened to the Rainmaker. Oh well. Maybe next time you will listen to me instead of R2D2 and C3P0. Or maybe you won’t. Holy Shit!! Everyone Showed to the Afterparty!!! Yeah, just like this. Remember, this party is going to go all night long. Don’t get too tired out and forget to get rich sticking it to the short sellers still temporarily in business after yesterday’s back breaking move. It was the Literal definition of Break Dancing. You know, if we keep throwing parties like this, I might have to get my own hand signal, like Jay Z’s Hov symbol. My DJ name could be: DJ MakeRain® The greatest chart I ever saw was this one of 10 year Treasury short positions being the highest since 2006!!! Soon Rick Santelli will be eating a big $hit sandwich when he slowly accepts the facts that Deflation is the most important financial term you can learn about over the next 5 to 10 years. But for now he is content to look idiotic, trying to explain the 30 bps move in the 5 year bond today with some kind of Ebola talk or something about Europe. Wow this is fun. ©Rainmaker Report, LLC | All rights reserved | Do Not Duplicate And we are getting a number of new riders to our bandwagon. I even heard Sarah Eisen “pay up” to Guy Adami for being right about deflation. 5 www.rainmakerinvestor.com @sleevesrolled Let me give you all a little free advice: It must be!!! I’ve heard them all now. Ebola has not stopped a single person from spending a single dollar in this economy yet. Because we got the perfect bounce from that level. But for now, the wagon (band) is filling to capacity with the late money crowd that we always knew would be coming late to the party. More people died today from Peanut Butter than from Ebola, so shut the f@ck up about Ebola having anything to do with anything!!! Do you know what I get a kick out of? VIX (weekly chart) Hearing people say the move in Treasuries was technical. 30 year Treasury Yield (weekly chart) Oh, yeah right. We give FUNDAMENTAL REASONS for the TLT to go higher EVERY SINGLE DAY for the past $25 DOLLARS (or 10 months whichever stat you like best)!! Do you want to hear something miraculous? I know Ebola is the reason why the 30 year Treasury plumbed down to 2.67% early this morning. Everyone knows that. But for some reason the 8 dollar move yesterday was “technical”. You are technically an asshole if you believe that. The F@cking technical excuse… Well forget about 19.51. Blew through that thing like Netflix blew through 4th avenue last night. But for all the Ebola conspiracy theorists, can you tell me why the chart that we drew up 6 months ago with the bottom channel edge right at…2.67% But here is what we said last week which should explain what is happening in the VIX: From Rainmaker Report 10.10.14: Do you think this means…. That the Rainmaker can predict infectious diseases!!? Ok, now it is time to follow up on the VIX. Here is the very long term chart we have been working from, and for new readers we set this line in the sand at 19.51. That is the top of all the red candles, where there always seems to be a sell signal that triggers over that level and it usually falls back to earth over that level. “Every time I start talking about boxing”…. ©Rainmaker Report, LLC | All rights reserved | Do Not Duplicate 6 www.rainmakerinvestor.com @sleevesrolled Let’s tighten up the week with a look at the VIX. getting rewarded for hitting your hurdles. They are supposed to be trying to hype you up on getting rich, so they consequently shower gifts on your hotel bed almost every day you are there. We talk often about this idea of trying to submerge a beach ball deep under water. As you try and push it lower, it gains strength. When it slips from your grip, it explodes higher, and if you are not careful, you might get your teeth knocked out when it emerges. I guess that is dead now, and the ML brass can’t be happy about it. The beachball has slipped from the grip of the collective market participants. We cannot keep it down without SIGNIFICANT support by the Fed. That support has pledged to leave forever, but that is just a temporary development. Just a small drop through support here, and you will see plenty of yapping from the Fed officials trying to flap their dove wings and undo the mess they are digging for the rest of us. Here we are less than a week later, and Jon Hilsenrath, Steve Liesman, and the entire Fed is trying to walk back this idea of #liftoff. They are trying to explain this idea of Deflation to you. But you don’t need their stinking excuses, because you have me. Who has been unimpressed with the mis-informative nature of recent reporting by certain well read journalists. Go for a ride with the Rainmaker, because he was destined to be your definitive guide to defeating deflation. Ok now we are going to follow up on the Bank of America earnings from yesterday. I was going back through some old papers yesterday and found this gem, amongst the gems: Will the rest of the street follow? From 10.6.14: So I am going to call bullshit on this entire excuse right now. I bet green money that Bank of America is looking at year over year deposit data across all their businesses and seeing a wide delta. I hope this is not the first step in rightsizing their business in advance of the storm on the horizon. So I guess the point is that Merrill usually leads the street, as far as retail brokerage is concerned. Everyone who goes to those meetings knows it is not about learning something, it is about ©Rainmaker Report, LLC | All rights reserved | Do Not Duplicate So, some folks will dismiss this article. I will call it a warning sign. My read is that Bank of America sees the slowdown, and is tightening the belt now in advance of their earnings on October 15th. 7 You can bet on it. So yesterday as we saw B of A earn (lose) money due to a 5 billion dollar litigation charge, I laughed at being right in this prediction. Remember, I used to work at Merrill Lynch. We know they worry about “optics” more than your local Optometrist. I would also point out that Bank of America has tremendously powerful analytical abilities, sensing the slowdown based on banking forensics including (late) mortgage payments, insufficient funds fees, average daily balances, and so on and so forth. www.rainmakerinvestor.com @sleevesrolled With 1 of every 2 US citizens with an account, Bank of America can predict a recession with 99% accuracy as far as I am concerned. Even better than that if we are honest. Make sure you understand that you just saw the 5 year note trade down 28 bps in yield in one morning. I did not expect that. Nobody did. That they are cleaning their glasses now means they see some trouble on the horizon. Apparently there were some hedge funds who were shorting the Treasury market? So when they get on tv, all those little boys and girls (clients of the firm) are watching to make sure their chief strategist has a consistent storyline. Who knew? Imagine if Josh Brown said sell it all? So now I want to talk about professional money managers television appearances. Yesterday as I watched the Sandwichtime Special ®I saw the two Najarian brothers, Steve Liesman, and Josh Brown was on simulcast from underneath his desk. His phone would blow up before he even took his mic off!! So I found this really fun table showing the largest TLT gaps in history. Not much else to say except I would love to see largest intraday move ever. Because this would probably be number one. I was waiting to see his feet move on this idea of “holding” stocks whilst the DOW melt/ed down almost 500 points in 30 minutes. have a well polished “story” they are selling. 3% growth, Rah Rah, earnings, liftoff, et cetera. And after selling people for 2 days to stay in their seat, you are locked into being bullish. Well consequently Josh Brown gets asked about what viewers should do, and he gets painted into this corner. But he didn’t. That’s because he has been on the phone with almost every client he has in the past 3 days, and he has told them to hold. He didn’t say anything actually. But what he did say was what I imagined every person who manages money worries about. How can he get on tv and say sell? You see, if you are good enough to make it onto CNBC (with a single exclusion of course) then you are the person your firm “goes to” to talk to the clients and make the case for investing their money whichever way they recommend. That person has sold every single high net worth account in your book, and so they must ©Rainmaker Report, LLC | All rights reserved | Do Not Duplicate 8 His phone would light up harder than Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer… on Christmas. So he tells you to hold. Because his family money is dependent on keeping everyone on the ride. www.rainmakerinvestor.com @sleevesrolled I even heard some idiot say Stay Calm and Carry on yesterday. I almost puked. Is this the kind of advice you have for people getting their asses handed to them CNBC? You know you had a lot of people on there yesterday that had no f@cking clue what they were talking about. Excuses like: When you don’t go to the mall one day for fear of seeing a client, you know WTF I am talking about. So, consequently you are getting this weak ass advice despite this being the time to really take charge and protect your assets. Remember, taking advice from the person who gets paid on that advice is similar to taking betting advice…from your bookie. Ebola. The smartest of players are analyzing the tape from today’s 30 year Treasury /ZB trade to find the max pain points so they can exploit them in less than 30 minutes from now. If you think yields (10y) spiked down under 2% and are now going to rise into the atmosphere, well you are going to get carried out like the rest of the bandwagoneers. You know yesterday’s early action was the Back Tap Police®. Quite convenient, yet wildly unprofitable. Europe. Earnings. No. No. No. It is Deflation. Deflation. Deflation. The point is that these people on tv are getting paid to keep you on the ride. If you get off, their paycheck goes down. And that is a fact. There is no worse feeling in the world than loading your friends and family into an investment and then watch it fall into the earth. You get this sick feeling like you just got punched in the stomach while a giant bright light shines in your eyes. It doesn’t feel good, and it is the kryptonite of asset gatherers. Final point: when guys like Josh Brown Finally tell you to get a transfer off the bus, it will be way lower than here. It will only be once the bus with the sign: “EVERYONE KNOWS” pulls into the station. You know, there are still hedge funds right now planning out their attack/s to come in and short long bonds still? Which got me to thinking. Do you know how Zero Hedge is always talking about the best strategy for stocks is to buy the Most Shorted list of names in hopes of squeezing the shortsellers while shorting the S&P to reduce risk. Well isn’t the same idea what we have been doing in the bond market the whole time? They didn’t learn. Maybe made some money later in the day on the back of the Plunge Protection Teams’ wings? Ok. Congrats. Remember this one thing. All those algos who read charts now have this massive downside print that they will recalibrate their machines toward. ©Rainmaker Report, LLC | All rights reserved | Do Not Duplicate 9 We are setting up a beer tent in the “most shorted” position on the Treasury Curve, instead of stocks. www.rainmakerinvestor.com @sleevesrolled Like this trade: And I found this very interesting chart of money flows into equities. How funny is it that the Retail Investors had it right and the “smart” money is getting soaked? And did you know there are all these Long Junk Bonds/Short Treasury Bond spread trades out there? Did you know this thing was up over 10% at one point yesterday!!! Yesterday you saw just a small taste of the unwind. Wait till stocks are melting down and Ma and Pa Feebase are selling out of stocks and going to money market, outside the paywall. The Fun police had to come in and break up the party, but don’t worry, we still have some beer in the keg for later… So you know we like Treasuries for so many more reasons than to squeeze the short sellers’ nuts. But isn’t short nut squeezing an added bonus? You wanna laugh, they had Tom Lee on again yesterday! Less than one day before the largest crash in the history of the last 30 days, Tom Lee was on Squawk Box saying he was bullish. Isn’t it the max pain trade that actually has a higher percentage chance of occurring because of so many people thinking it can never happen? Whoever pays this guy actual money still is so delusional, they should go down to the local hospital and get their temperature checked. Less than one week (7 days) later, the chances are up to 26.6%. They are starting to find out slowly. Soon “everyone” will know. But for now, let us dance. Remember, this party is just getting started. Don’t forget to drink lots of water, and double knot your sneakers, because we are going dance our asses off soon. I think so. ©Rainmaker Report, LLC | All rights reserved | Do Not Duplicate How about this chart from the CME Fedwatch website. Do you remember when I told you to bet on the September 2015 Fed Funds futures due to the 2% chance they were giving the 0% rate. 10 www.rainmakerinvestor.com @sleevesrolled recommendations to you to buy or sell specific securities. Please consult your own advisor before acting on any of the information in this document or any other document received from Rainmaker Investor, LLC and its affiliates. Mr. Reyes and/or his employees may have a financial interest in securities or derivatives described I will be here spinning records all night long. Thanks for taking the time to come to my party. Keep your eyes open today. It could get dangerous. This publication is protected by U.S. and International Copyright laws. All rights reserved. This publication is a proprietary document and intended strictly for the use of subscribers. No additional license is granted to any subscriber to copy, reproduce, distribute or download without written consent of Rainmaker Report LLC. Violators will be prosecuted. Investors should verify all claims and perform due diligence on any strategy or investment before investing. Investing in derivative securities including futures and options are speculative in nature and carry substantial risk. Alejandro Reyes The Rainmaker Investor Report is prepared by and is the property of Rainmaker Report, LLC and is distributed for informational and educational purposes only. There is no consideration given to the specific investment need, objectives, or risk tolerances of any of the recipients. This report is not an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy or sell any securities or financial instrument its mentioned. Each recipient should consult their own counsel, including tax advice before making any investment decision. Any performance figures do not include transactional costs and are presented as estimates only. The information, views, statements, and opinions are based on sources, public and private considered to be reliable, however no warranty is made to their accuracy. Mr. Reyes is not an investment advisor and cannot make ©Rainmaker Report, LLC | All rights reserved | Do Not Duplicate 11 www.rainmakerinvestor.com @sleevesrolled
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