@BobEUnlimited@teaze_r Long term rates didn’t stay at 5% long enough to topple the economy. They lasted just about enough to cause a minor jolt.
In other words, rates don’t need to go higher than 5% to force a meaningful slowdown, they need to stay there for longer.
Treasury auctions can give us clues to the health or problems of the entire US financial system.
But what are those clues and how can you tell?
Time for a Treasury 🧵👇
@WalterDeemer Everyone will get it wrong at least once.
I still remember January 2016, I waited for $SPX to hit that target—- and we all know what transpired:
@allstarcharts I beg to differ there.
Forward Earnings will always be an important factor in determining valuations and a fair price for most risky assets. Wether it is related to the stock market or real economy.
@allstarcharts Point well taken. Care to answer the Q related to forward EPS, and reasonable P/E?
Disclosure: investor with 5 to 8 year horizon, have managed to avoid most of the 2022 drawdown, 15% appreciation in 22. Biased towards EM over U.S. for 2023-24
Risk: currently 80% in cash!
@WalterDeemer To naysayers- volume & money flow always matter.
How else can you tell whether institutional/smart money is at work, and where it is rotating.
@MillionaireBiz1 Ok PacMan,
Share your thoughts on the path $TLT may follow the next 3 to 6 months.
And, at what point you would put your money behind it.
@lisaabramowicz1 Perma bulls can be their own worst enemies.
The more they fight the Fed, the higher rates will go, and or longer will have to stay there ===> leading to more pain before it is all over and “the bottom for equities” is in.