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#1 Douglas

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Posted 23 September 2022 - 09:00 AM

I know you guys are singularly focused on the plunging US market, but a bigger mess is brewing just across the pond from you.  This morning the UK's new government took out a rather large gun and shot their currency right between the eyes.  For some unexplained self-immolation reason, they cut the Cable. 

 

The plot below using an fxtop.com graph shows a rather simplistic, but very scary price projection for the Pound down to the 80 US cent range.  That would be great if you're a yank tourist bellying up to the bar in a UK pub buying good English ale at a bargain price, but not so good if you're English and all your energy and most other imports are priced in dollars.  This will cause inflation on steroids, a.k.a. a currency crisis.  This is a big deal, and just when I thought that I would be eating crow yet again for one of my crash window calls, the UK PM goes out and literally hatches a big black swan egg right on the floor of Parliament.  Maybe I'm over-reacting, but that previous low on the plot below was in the mid-1980's almost 40 years ago.   If they don't try to clean up this mess this weekend, Monday that feathered ebony emissary of evil might just spread its wings over a lot more than just Cable.

 

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Douglas

 



#2 K Wave

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Posted 23 September 2022 - 09:58 AM

Uncle Buck is a beast on the world stage right now...

 

Looking pre-explosive against Swiss here too.

One by one, they are succumbing to the Tsunami

 

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The strength of Government lies in the people's ignorance, and the Government knows this, and will therefore always oppose true enlightenment. - Leo Tolstoy

 

 


#3 Douglas

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Posted 23 September 2022 - 12:59 PM

Just in case, the following is my understanding of the US market trading halt circuit breakers currently in place:

 

A trading circuit breaker, which halts trading across all markets, can be triggered at three circuit breaker thresholds that measure a decrease against the prior day’s closing price of the S&P 500 Index – Level 1 a drop of 7% (about 2100 DOW points), Level 2 a drop of 13% (roughly 3900 DOW points), and finally Level 3 a drop of 20% (about 6000 DOW points).

 

A Level 1 and Level 2 breach halts trading for a minimum of 15 minutes. A Level 3 breach halts trading for the remainder of the trading day.  Note Level 1 and 2 halts can only be triggered once per day each, so a drop to -7% which causes a 15 minute halt, then a rally and then a further drop to -7% would not trigger an additional halt in trading, only if it exceeded -13% would an additional halt take place.

 

Of course, I do realize that since I noted the above, the DOW will probably close unchanged today, that is if the Powell Put is still in place.

 

Regards,

Douglas