10am update – opening chop

US equities opened broadly flat… if seeing some moderate cooling. WTIC $81.35. Gold $2363. Silver $30.00. Copper $4.45.

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VIX’60min

Summary

Best guess… a quad-opex settlement around 5450. 5500 is too high… whilst 5400 looks out of range, as we’re already s/t cyclically low.


notable stock: MU

Yesterday’s bearish engulfing candle played out.
Momentum to turn negative next Monday.
Yet more upgrades… Wolfe Res’, 150>200, Raymond James 130>160

notable stock: AMZN

Helped on hopes Amazon will charge $5 or $10 a month for Alexa.

notable silver ETF: SLV, daily2

Overnight weakness, if recovering. It’d be useful to the m/t bullish case to see silver settle at least +0.5% today. Momentum due to turn positive next Monday.

notable miner: NEM

Macquarie, 47>55, BNP Paribas, 52>55