Category: Fed, Central Bank and Banking Macro Liquidity

“Sell in May and go away,” looks like a good idea again this year. The time has come. The time is now. Here’s why.   Non-subscribers, click here for access. 

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Bulletin- Fed Cuts QT by $35 billion per month. This is irrelevant and immaterial in the face of the mushrooming Treasury supply ahead. Read on!   Non-subscribers, click here for access. 

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Today is FOMC circus day, with the Chairman’s Dog and Pony Show after the main event.  Non-subscribers, click here for access. 

It’s all irrelevant. The First Law of Market Dynamics—Don’t Fight the Fed—has been called into question since October 2022 when a new cyclical bull market was born despite Fed policy. It was tight then, and remains tight now, as the Fed relentlessly drains money from the system by shrinking its balance sheet.  Non-subscribers, click here for access. 

That won’t change until the Fed does more than talk about it. And why should it change. Inflation marches on, and the markets are doing just fine.  Non-subscribers, click here for access. 

Tight Fed policy hasn’t mattered because the players have been determined to create their own liquidity. Who needs QE when you can just borrow your own cash into existence. With plastic in our pockets, we are all mini central banks. We create credit and money by simply spending what we don’t have because the banks give everybody, especially hedge funds and dealers and private equity, a blank check for credit when they want it.  Non-subscribers, click here for access. 

Of course, the Fed had also set up an enormous sludge fund, oops, I mean slush fund, called the RRP facility. That was set up as a piggy bank where all the money market funds deposited all the excess cash that the Fed had pumped into the system during 12 years of QE. At one point in 2022, that fund exceeded $2.5 trillion. That will fund a lot of stock purchases.   Non-subscribers, click here for access. 

And it has.  Non-subscribers, click here for access. 

Gradually that fund was drawn down as the US Government ran persistent huge deficits and had to borrow the money to fund them. Only since 2021 has the Fed not been there to buy all that debt. That debt issuance, particularly in the form of short-term Treasury bills had sopped up all but $330 billion of the RRP slush fund by two weeks ago, April 15. But since then, things changed as we knew they would.   Non-subscribers, click here for access. 

Here’s what it means, along with a road map of how to drive the markets’ winding roads over the next few months.   Non-subscribers, click here for access. 

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That’s because they’re early, and an intervening temporary force should drive xxxx xxxx xxxxx.

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The warning signs from the Fed’s weekly real time balance sheet data and slightly lagged data on the condition of the US banking system continued last week. The market has acted badly, but this isn’t likely “IT” yet. Non-subscribers, click here for access.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx began in early April, and they will continue to xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx  the markets for the next 4 weeks or so. Most of that xxxxx will be coming over the next two weeks. As a result, any additional market decline from here is likely to be xxxxxxxxxx. Non-subscribers, click here for access.

Timing that will be tricky and a matter for technical analysis. My technical work has suggested that ideally a 6-month cycle low is due xxxxxx xxxx xxxxxx. A couple of weeks on either side of that would be normal, so we need to be alert, as illustrated in Monday’s Technical Trader report. Non-subscribers, click here for access.

We can expect a bigger selloff once the Treasury starts borrowing again, on balance, probably around the xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, and especially when the Fed’s RRP facility is effectively out of cash, which isn’t likely until xxxxxxxxx. Non-subscribers, click here for access.

Meanwhile, let’s run through the charts and data so that you can see the logic behind this conclusion. First a review of how this conclusion has evolved over the past couple of months. Non-subscribers, click here for access.

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The Fed’s weekly real time balance sheet data and its slightly lagged data on the condition of the US banking system have flashed warning signs that the rally is on its last legs. xxxxxxx, Treasury bill paydowns have begun on schedule, and they will xxxx cash xxxx the markets for the next 6 weeks.  Non-subscribers, click here for access.

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This will lead to xxxx xxxx xxxx for stocks, and should also xxxx the bond market. A big xxxxxxx in bonds hangs in the balance. Stocks should be xxxxxx off and on through April and part of May before the xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx vomitorium.   Non-subscribers, click here for access.

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The dealers just set a new record extreme of leverage against their bond positions at the end of February. Then they sharply pulled in their horns in early March. Scared much? Non-subscribers, click here for access.

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Or maybe they’re preparing for the worst in another way. After all, they are required to buy a significant percentage of every Treasury offering by the deal they made with the devil to be its Primary Dealers. And those offerings keep coming in a never-ending tide. The dealers have no choice but to take on inventory, and hopefully get rid of it as fast as they can under current circumstances. Non-subscribers, click here for access.

But what if they can’t? What if there aren’t enough buyers to relieve them of that excessive inventory in a market where prices are falling. Or should I say falling because of the excess inventory? There are too many bonds and the Treasury keeps issuing more and more and more. So the dealers hedge. They hedge by shorting Treasury futures. There’s a ready market for that.  Non-subscribers, click here for access.

Until January, they hadn’t been doing too much hedging. There was some, but it wasn’t notable. They were pretty sanguine about the bond market and their small hedges. But then something changed. They hit a switch and started shorting the Treasury futures like mad. Now they have built up the largest short position in Treasury futures that they have had since 2022. They have enough futures shorts to more than offset the net long position in their Treasury coupon inventories.  Non-subscribers, click here for access.

Something has changed in their outlook. We need to pay attention. This report shows you the change, tells you what it means, and what to do about it to protect yourself. Non-subscribers, click here for access.

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This report shows the pictures that tell the story, and that tells us what to do about it.

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