SF 3:01 – If you have habits without which you cannot get through your day I, the uglier than ugly guy at sold many gaffs, intentionally and eagerly, with no feminine side nor an inner child, truthfully honestly un-apologically, am on stand-by to …. ….
take full advantage
psst / according to FRED “Average Hourly Earnings of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees”
july 2024: $30.14/hr vs marsbar $1.25
july 1969: $3.22/hr vs marsbar $0.10
For you JP –
The FED matters if you are position trading. Goldman Sachs does not care about what the FED says or its dot plots other than to use it as a means to attack volatility and adjust exposure. The reason I do not trust US government economic numbers……….
In 1969 a Mars chocolate bar cost me 10 cents at EZ Freezy Market in San Francisco and today it is $1.25, yet the production-packaging-shipping-distribution is more efficient. This is not a supply/demand issue or a consumer confidence issue or a rate of change issue. People want chocolate no matter what, everything is more expensive, and profit margins matter. They can drop rates 10% and people will still gorge on chocolate.
Chocolate_1
Fed _ 0
Remaining long Usd/Jpy from lower. Buying every reasonable pause.
in the name of agrandissement ?
Five Big Questions for the Fed at Jackson Hole bbrg
There’s plenty to address beyond next month’s interest-rate move.
claims bill dudley
The AMEX Gold Bugs Index went straight up and is a mix of risk on sentiment and hedging at the same time this time. Geopolitical tension, war, failing economic structures, failing political con games weigh while ever-present demand not just to keep your girlfriend from complaining but for high end defense electronic and other solid use reasons.
And then there is speculation. Buy side internal metrics a 5 times greater than sell side this morning.
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan
The U.S. economy is doing just fine and markets now accept a quarter-point rate cut from the Federal Reserve next month will be enough to get the easing cycle going as disinflation resumes.
Morning Bid: With US economy humming, a quarter point will do
EURGBP 4 HOUR CHART – Real money flow

As you can see by this chart, while we are not privy to the order flow, there is clearly a real money selling driving this cross lower.
ON the downside, .8500 is the obvious pivotal level with next chart support at .8478. Back Above .8531-50 would be needed to suggest the order is done.
In any case, EURGBP selling has been a contributing factor to the firmer GBPUSD and EURUSD lag.
USDJPY 1 HOUR CHART – 38.2%

A case can be made that the USDJPY rebound is just a retracement after the high (149.39) came close enough (149.42) to complete a 38.2% retracement.
As this chart shows, it would need to break 147.04 to suggest a resumption of the downtrend so use short-term charts to trade while above it.
In any case, 148 will now be pifotal in dictating whether the focus is on 147,.04 or 149-150.
GBPUSD DAILY CHART – OUTPERFORMING

GBPUSD is again outperforming, helped by demand from a further fall in EURGBP so keep an eye on this cross.
Daily chart shows only 1.2937 blocking the 1.4044 high
Intra-day, look for support as long as it trades above 1.2866-72, stronger if 1.2884-88 becomes support
I can go into detail on this but I prefer to focus on whether this should make a difference to you.
What is the difference between an A Book and a B Book and should it make a difference to you?
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