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US dollar drops and risk trades rally as Fed dots say no hikes until 2024

  
Analysis, Forex

Dollar falls around 40 pips across the board

Dollar falls around 40 pips across the board
The US dollar has slumped and risk assets are rallying after the FOMC statement and forecasts.
The latest dot plot shows 7 of 18 Fed members forecasting a rate hike (or more) in 2023. That means the majority still see no move higher through that year.
The immediate reaction was selling in the US dollar and buying equities. The S&P 500 went from -20 to +4 and the Nasdaq from -1.1% to flat. USD/CAD is down to 1.2440 from 1.2485. EUR/USD is up to 1.1950 from 1.1910.
It’s a uniform move across the board and is likely to be underscored by Powell in his press conference.

The Feds central tendencies and dot plot for the March 2021 meeting

  
  Analysis

Fed Dot Plot

Below is the dot plot from the March meeting. At the time, 1 Fed official saw a hike in 2022, and 5 saw a hike in 2023.
Fed Dot Plot
The Dot plot for March sees four Fed officials expecting hikes in 2022 and seven Fed officials and 2023.
 The plot in March

The central tendencies for 2021 sees

  •  GDP higher. The central tendencies went from 3.7% to 50% to 5.8% to 6.6%
  • Unemployment lower,  The central tendencies went from 4.7% – 5.4%  to 4.2% – 4.7% and
  • PCE inflation higher.  Central tendencies went from 1.7% – 1.9% to 2.2% – 2.4%.  Core PCA four 2021 one from 1.7% – 1.8% to 2.0%-2.3%

In 2022, inflation is modestly higher but still mostly below 2% for headline and core inflation.  GDP growth has a higher upper limit at 3.8% versus 3.5%. Unemployment is expected be lower at 3.6% – 4% versus 3.8% – 4.6% in December.

Central tendencies
Key takeaways are that growth is higher, inflation is higher, but Fed officials are not concerned about those dynamics in 2021. In 2022 that she inflation moving back lower toward the 2% level.   In 2023, more officials are expecting a hike, but inflation is expected to remain plus or minus around 2%.

FOMC full statement from the March 2021 meeting

  
  Analysis

See statement from March 2021 meeting

The Federal Reserve is committed to using its full range of tools to support the U.S. economy in this challenging time, thereby promoting its maximum employment and price stability goals.

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing tremendous human and economic hardship across the United States and around the world. Following a moderation in the pace of the recovery, indicators of economic activity and employment have turned up recently, although the sectors most adversely affected by the pandemic remain weak. Inflation continues to run below 2 percent. Overall financial conditions remain accommodative, in part reflecting policy measures to support the economy and the flow of credit to U.S. households and businesses.

The path of the economy will depend significantly on the course of the virus, including progress on vaccinations. The ongoing public health crisis continues to weigh on economic activity, employment, and inflation, and poses considerable risks to the economic outlook.

The Committee seeks to achieve maximum employment and inflation at the rate of 2 percent over the longer run. With inflation running persistently below this longer-run goal, the Committee will aim to achieve inflation moderately above 2 percent for some time so that inflation averages 2 percent over time and longer‑term inflation expectations remain well anchored at 2 percent. The Committee expects to maintain an accommodative stance of monetary policy until these outcomes are achieved. The Committee decided to keep the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent and expects it will be appropriate to maintain this target range until labor market conditions have reached levels consistent with the Committee’s assessments of maximum employment and inflation has risen to 2 percent and is on track to moderately exceed 2 percent for some time. In addition, the Federal Reserve will continue to increase its holdings of Treasury securities by at least $80 billion per month and of agency mortgage‑backed securities by at least $40 billion per month until substantial further progress has been made toward the Committee’s maximum employment and price stability goals. These asset purchases help foster smooth market functioning and accommodative financial conditions, thereby supporting the flow of credit to households and businesses. (more…)

European indices end the session mixed

  
Analysis, Global Indices

German Dax closes higher.

The major the day with mixed results. The German Dax and Italy’s FTSE MIB were higher. The other major indices closed lower.
  • German Dax, +0.27%
  • Francis CAC, unchanged
  • UK’s FTSE 100, -0.6%
  • Spain’s Ibex, -0.67%
  • Italy’s footsie MIB, +0.08%
In the European debt market, the benchmark 10 year yields were sharply higher with Spain and Italy leading the way to the upside:
German Dax closes higher.

10 year yield moves to a new cycle high ahead of the FOMC decision

  
  Analysis

Yield trades to the highest level

The 10 year yield has moved to a new cycle high at 1.6868%. The yield is the highest since January 24, 2020.  The run higher is ahead of the FOMC decision at 2 PM ET and the Powell presser at 2:30 PM ET.  Needless to say, focus will be on comments about the run up in yields.

Yield trades to the highest level 

Looking at the hourly chart, the next major target comes in at the 50% midpoint of the move down from the October 2018 high at 1.7866%.
Since near the end of January when the yield corrected to near 1% and based, the yield has moved up 690 basis points.  The previous swing low was in August 2020 at around 0.5%.   The low yield last week reached 1.47% before resuming the run higher this week.
The Nasdaq index moved back lower on the back of the move to new highs.   It currently trades down about -157 points or 1.16% at 13314.
The Dow is still higher by 111 points. The S&P is down -16 points or -0.43%.

W. D. GANN’S 24 TIMELESS STOCK TRADING RULES

  
Analysis, Education
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Here are the 24 rules:

1. Amount of capital to use: Divide your capital into 10 equal parts and never risk more than one-tenth of your capital on any one trade.

2. Use stop loss orders. Always protect a trade.

3. Never overtrade. This would be violating your capital rules.

4. Never let a profit run into a loss. After you once have a profit raise your stop loss order so that you will have no loss of capital.

5. Do not buck the trend. Never buy or sell if you are not sure of the trend according to your charts and rules.

6. When in doubt, get out and don’t get in when in doubt.

7. Trade only in active markets. Keep out of slow, dead ones.

8. Equal distribution of risk. Trade in two or three different commodities if possible. Avoid tying up all your capital in any one commodity.

9. Never limit your orders or fix a buying or selling price.

10. Don’t close your trades without a good reason. Follow up with a stop loss order to protect your profits.

11. Accumulate a surplus. After you have made a series of successful trades, put some money into a surplus account to be used only in emergency or in times of panic.

12. Never buy or sell just to get a scalping profit.

13. Never average a loss. This is one of the worst mistakes a trader can make.

14. Never get out of the market just because you have lost patience or get into the market because you are anxious from waiting.

15. Avoid taking small profits and big losses.

16. Never cancel a stop loss order after you have placed it at the time you make a trade.

17. Avoid getting in and out of the market too often.

18. Be just as willing to sell short as you are to buy. Let your object be to keep with the trend and make money.

19. Never buy just because the price of a commodity is low or sell short just because the price is high.

20. Be careful about pyramiding at the wrong time. Wait until the commodity is very active and has crossed resistance levels before buying more, and until it has broken out of the zone of distribution before selling more.

21. Select the commodities that show strong uptrend to pyramid on the buying side and the ones that show definite downtrend to sell short.

22. Never hedge. If you are long one commodity and it starts to go down, do not sell another commodity short to hedge it. Get out at the market: Take your loss and wait for another opportunity.

23. Never change your position in the market without a good reason. When you make a trade, let it be for some good reason, or according to some definite rule; then do not get out without a definite indication of a change in trend.

24. Avoid increasing your trading after a long period of success or a period of profitable trades.

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