Brexit reality bites as UK economy falters

In this July 9, 2019 market morning briefing, the hosts (Ant and Mr. North) provide a comprehensive overview of the current macro‑economic landscape and its impact on major asset classes. They begin by noting a heavy pound and a broader negative sentiment driven by weakening UK economic indicators – contracting PMIs, record‑slow retail sales, and an imminent GDP contraction – all compounded by Brexit uncertainty and the prospect of a no‑deal under Boris Johnson. The discussion moves to global equity markets, highlighting technical weakness in the S&P 500 and the German DAX, with specific support and resistance levels identified ahead of the upcoming earnings season. The hosts analyze upcoming US Federal Reserve activity, especially Chairman Jerome Powell’s stress‑test speech and the broader set of Fed speakers, emphasizing that monetary‑policy direction remains uncertain after the recent non‑farm payroll surprise. They then shift to the Eurozone, summarizing consensus among banks (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas) that the ECB is likely to restart quantitative easing in Q3/Q4, possibly after a modest rate cut. Geopolitical headlines include a US $2.2 billion arms sale to Taiwan, which could inflame China‑US trade negotiations. The briefing also covers the daily calendar (US data releases, API inventories) and technical outlooks for major currency pairs (GBP/USD, EUR/USD, AUD, JPY) and commodities (gold, oil). Throughout, the presenters stress the importance of watching key technical levels and policy‑driven catalysts for market moves.
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Okay, very good morning, Tuesday, 9th of July. Hope everyone is doing well. A quick look first of all over the charts and a summary of what I'm going to cover. Pound a little heavy this morning, so a couple things to update you on, on that regard, and this time more of an economic focus than so much a political one. but coming close to testing some interesting levels in close proximity to the downside. Elsewhere, other news stories in regard to the ECB, a couple of bank comments in regards to what to expect going forward on the prospect of the ECB reinitiating QE, which timing, I guess, and to what size is going to be quite a key thing to ascertain. Then we've got some news on the, the China-US trade war. New arms sale from the US to Taiwan, which is not a market-moving headline on its own, but certainly would be interesting in regard to the recommencing of trade negotiations between those two countries. And then we'll have a look at the calendar and what to expect for the, for the day ahead. So starting off, as you can see, got the charts up in front of me, and rather than the actual individual news stories, I would say it's very much on the sentiment basis a continuation of what we've had from yesterday. So equity is still a little heavy. Just looking at the DAX this morning, it's already tested its S2. One thing to note is that despite Deutsche Bank shares rallying at the open yesterday, I think they did finish down about 5%. They're down about 2% last time I looked at the open this morning. So, you know, irrespective of very aggressive restructuring kind of cost savings, trying to kind of, if you like, clip off the bad part of the bank in order to press the reset button and focus on more, you know, core performing assets or parts of the business. The markets hasn't really bought into that story and that reversed. So that's just one thing to be aware of. But looking at the S&P 500 here, and obviously from a technical point of view, there definitely is— and Sam will go over this in more detail— some key areas to look out for. But I think technically the S&P's setting up with some quite clear points of support and resistance going forward. This was obviously the, the wake and the volatility of non-farm payrolls on Friday. We had the initial sell-off, of course, after the headline, the kind of extreme nature of the beat on the number of jobs created on the change in non-farm payrolls. But the overall recovery into the Wall Street close, you know, once the kind of dust settled and the idea of, okay, 50 basis points may be removed off the table, but the Fed definitely is still going to act at the end of the year and most likely multiple times for 2019. But there's no detracting from the point of the global economy is deteriorating at this point. And whether that's in machine tool orders in Japan yesterday, whether that's in global PMIs, you know, across different nations at the moment, the net result is, is that at the moment economically things are slowing down from pretty much each continent. And so equities just drifting a little lower. The other thing I think also that not a lot of people are kind of talking about at this point in time, but I do feel as well this is a little bit of almost pre-positioning, if you like, ahead of corporate earnings season, which does start to kind of kick off in the next week or two. And obviously corporate profitability, I think not so much just now, but more importantly looking forward their forward guidance, I think the bar's got to be, you know, reset a little lower just given this economic, you know, pessimism going forward. I think it's going to be a struggle for earnings reports really to, to outperform. And so we've already seen that yesterday. Remember, we were talking about Morgan Stanley at the weekend issuing a note talking about how they're the least exposed to equities in several years, and I kind of agree with that. So I think a lot of this is We've hit that all-time high, of course. We got up just above 3,000 last week. So I think maybe just a bit coming off the table on the back of that. But looking at this technically, you can see the range that we're trading now. We had a brief test very early at the entrance in European morning, which was the actual payroll low, which was 71.5 in the S&P 500. You've then got the, the overnight low. We can see technically we broke that. Fairly obviously liquid conditions overnight comparative to the normal daily session in UK, Europe, in the US, of course. And so we shot lower. And so that now is the, the kind of price range of this morning to keep an eye on before the US come in. 64.5 on the downside, um, to then the S1 turn resistance level now, and above there 71.5. Any break of these levels though, looking towards the US session today then certainly S2 would be an area of support and another target on the downside. So 59 to kind of 61, that of course starts to bring in the low point that we had on the 2nd of June. And then beyond that point, you've got that area where you had the close of the, the session, what, 2 weeks ago, the initial pullback on the, the gap up on the G20, the pullback before then, the eventual push higher So that level as well down here around 55, I think, is going to be quite a key level. So yeah, I don't think it would be too unusual for the S&P to kind of drift down if we did break that range. I don't think at this point until Powell speaks, I think that the bottom end of that at 54 and three-quarters, I think around 55 would hold, would be my, my guess, because a lot of focus, of course, will be on Jerome Powell. And just to be clear, Powell is speaking today. But he's talking about stress tests. Highly unlikely, I feel, that he's going to say anything of significance. I actually think that he'll, he'll very much just, you know, be very specific on his topic because he'll want to not share any real information ahead of the testimony to the House Financial Services Committee tomorrow, which is going to be the most, the most important speech he'll give this week. So yeah, equities again a little soft. No one headline is really just a kind of state of play. I think global sentiment is tilted slightly to a negative sense on the global picture for the moment. So on that regard, oil is a little lower, albeit fairly sideways overnight, but down $0.23. The only thing that's not really, I guess, playing to that same tune of that negative sentiment is that gold and T-notes are both marginally lower. The Dixie, though, is up 1/10. That might explain maybe a little bit of the weight in the gold move. But currencies is the one that really I want to focus on first to go through the news headlines, because cable— I was just looking at, and you know, looking at cable just to explain the, the price movement of late— that was non-farm payrolls. So obviously we saw a big jolt higher in the, in the pound on the back of the, the headline response, and by its byproduct, then cable just popping lower and overnight breaching the support point which really held up the price action from yesterday. So as Europe came in, snapped through that level and the respective S1 on the pivots, targeting down then the S2, which of course was also, um, the low point that we had from the post-payroll initial aftermath, if you like. So bit of support found around those areas. I'd say that will be the, the near-term target at the moment. I think what's helped the initiation of the break this morning though has been some of the headlines. But technically, obviously getting to a very interesting area for the pound because that initial low that we printed, remember back on the 10th, 11th of December, I think that was when Theresa May survived a vote, the first vote of no confidence in her leadership, which she survived. But that was when the pound hit its lowest point of I think that was the 11th of December, if I remember rightly. And in the futures market, we're only about 50 pips away from that point. And you can see if we were to breach that downside level, well, I guess down here I'd probably be looking at that 10th of— 7th of April low, 2378. But obviously this starts to open up the trapdoor a little bit in terms of price areas of kind of technical relevance to the downside. So, you know, why is the pound a little weak? Well, first of all, before I jump to this headline, I think you've got to look at the UK economic state at the moment. Now, obviously we know the political risks surrounding no deal, of course, increasing because it's more likely than not that Boris Johnson will become Prime Minister. It's more of a formality over the coming weeks. Week of the 22nd of July is when we'll be looking out for the the kind of results from the, the Tory contest. They are having a live debate tonight on ITV, I think it is. So if you wanted to watch that. But economically is one I want to focus on, because if you remember last week we had the, the series of UK PMIs, and manufacturing and construction are in contraction. Services is, you know, fairly tame at this point, pretty much in stagnation. Now you've got UK shops suffering their slowest growth on record in the 12 months to June. This came out overnight from the BRC. Um, it was the slowest increase since records began in 1995. Retailers also had their biggest annual fall for June on record, down 1.3%. Obviously Brexit concerns mounting, but however, on a year-on-year comparison, I would say you should take that with a pinch of salt. Remember what was happening this time last year. We were in the midst of a heat wave and England football team were in the, what, semi-final. So as a year-on-year comparison, obviously last year retail sales were way higher for those seasonal factors of weather and the almost unbelievable factor that England made it to the semifinals. It's probably more surprising. But the point being that I think a year-on-year comparison is unwarranted. I think that's a bit sensationalist, but not detracting from the point that average sales growth over the 12 months to June is the weakest since 1995. I think it's quite a telling point of the state of things at the moment. So weak PMIs, weak performance by spending from consumers. And this is all coming with UK GDP due tomorrow, where the UK economy probably shrank for the first time in 7 years. Now just have a look what this is like. So economists are predicting for tomorrow's second quarter first look at the monthly GDP figures, they are anticipating a contraction of 0.1. As you can see from that little let's call it orange downturn here, that'd be the first negative growth in the UK since going all the way back to the end of 2012. So definitely, although, you know, Brexit and its weight on the economy has been a real slow burner, this idea, I think, of just kicking the can down the road as we have done from March to October certainly does have consequences on on foreign investment, on companies' appetite because of the increasing uncertainty about the actual dates and outcomes of this political situation. And so this is really reality hitting home in my mind of what Brexit really means for the UK economy. And this is not even yet overlaying the risks increasing of a no deal, of course, under Boris Johnson. So I definitely think the pound this week does need to be watched very closely. I think the one saving grace that the pound might receive here is that if Jerome Powell comes out tomorrow and says, you know what, actually, you know, we shouldn't really look too much at that one-off jobs number. US other data is really something we're monitoring quite closely. Then with that being said, if that 50 basis point idea comes back on the table and the dollar starts re-weakening, reversing some of the strength that was seen on Friday, then, well, we got to keep a real sharp eye on that level of the December low in cable because that breaks, you know, I don't see much in the way of stopping that from, you know, quickly falling another point over the following day or two on the back of that breach. Such a significant support area. So yeah, definitely the pound one to watch going forward. A couple things that I did share this morning was an excellent research note from ING where they give a monthly summary of the current outlook for every major central bank, including the PBOC, the BOJ, the ECB, the Bank of England, and everyone in between. So definitely, if you get I'd say 15 minutes spare today, it's definitely worth a read. For UK, what they did do, which is very useful, is a kind of crib sheet of latest Brexit scenarios. And as I've always tried to stress to you guys, when you're trying to kind of fathom what is the market's, you know, base case, what is this herd mentality, it's not that ING are right and that their percentages are accurate, but they're a fair reflection of what them— and then I would look at other banks— are thinking about the likelihood of the outcome for Brexit. What's great about ING is they, you know, they put their neck on the line, they put the percentage probability, which is very helpful for ascertaining that hierarchy of— at this point, they actually think Parliament forcing a new general election is the highest probability. Followed by then a potential revamped deal of, I'm assuming, Theresa May's withdrawal bill that failed, what, 3 times. Good thing about this as well is you get an associated market reaction. So in summary, a second referendum would be the most they foresee as being pound-friendly, but that would mean an Article 50 extension of at least 6 months. Remember our briefings from several months ago technically, from a legislation point of view, for a new referendum to happen, there's a lot of different things that need to occur where the Electoral Commission needs to get involved, other parties need to then campaign over a period, the public then needs to be educated about it, and overall it's a very long timeline to deliver a second referendum. Hence the reason why that's much longer. But long story being short, I would definitely again be reading these types of things to give me a better idea as to, you know, cement your thinking about the potential outcomes and reactions in the market. Now, the idea of a second referendum could gain traction, or more traction, not because we kind of know the state of what the Greens, the Lib Dems want. The idea is, well, will Labour ever commit to a second referendum? Because if they did, that could create quite a meaningful shift in regards to the prospects of a second referendum becoming a reality. And one thing here is Labour's trade unions yesterday, according to leaked documents, the British trade union leaders linked to the opposition Labour Party have agreed to back a second referendum on any Brexit deal reached by the Tories or a no-deal exit, which I think could be quite a substantial thing that could at last force Corbyn's hand to commit to something rather than trying to appease both sides of the argument. And I think that would be the most compelling case to run against a more hard Brexit-lined Boris Johnson-led Conservative Party. So definitely one to watch if that was going to be the case. Definitely could be interesting on the prospects, obviously, a second referendum typically is seen by markets as being more pound-friendly in terms of what that could then eventually lead to. Of course, quick look at some other things. Um, ECB— this is much more bigger, broader picture, so I won't dwell on it too much, but a lot of talk. A recent Economist survey last week indicated that most banks believe the ECB will cut interest rates by 10 basis points, the deposit rate, from -0.4% to 0.5% in September of this year, given the current economic state of the eurozone and the forward-looking soft indicators looking for further deterioration. And so here, what they're also anticipating— remember, monetary policy is now kind of multiple tools that can be deployed. Interest rates is one, but when rates are already negative and what could be 0.5% then the obvious choice is then restarting quantitative easing. Now, to give you an idea, latest commentary here is Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are predicting the ECB are going to restart QE. So let me just show you this. This was the ECB's bond buying program of recent years, which of course stopped at the beginning of 2019 as they unwound the active nature of of purchasing of bonds month to month. Now, they did this in a very graduated fashion, from €80 billion at its peak to then €60 to then €30 to then €15, before then, you know, turning off the active nature of buying of bonds. Now, talk is— to give you an overview— Goldman Sachs, they're anticipating monthly purchases of €30 billion for a period of 9 months to be initiated later on this year. Morgan Stanley looking at €45 billion a month as early as Q4, with an announcement in September to kind of front-run the actual initiation of QE. And BNP Paribas, the French bank, suggesting ECB will announce €35 to €40 billion monthly pace of purchases in December for 6 to 9 months. So point being here, there's a growing chorus that QE in the eurozone is going to restart. The general consensus seems to be towards Q3 for signaling, Q4 for activation, uh, in, in that sense. So definitely these are things when ECB speakers are talking I'd be, I'd be, I'd be looking for. Um, one thing to be aware of, of course, for those a little bit more clued up on the ECB, the whole point here with the QE program is that under the current restrictions or parameters that the refine the purchase program of the ECB. The ECB cannot buy bonds forever because that would be in breach then of the idea that they're basically financing governments. So there's certain parameters and thresholds that need to be adhered to, as well as capital key weightings to each country, the number of bonds it can buy. Hence the reason why these banks are talking about an area of 30, 40 billion and not, you know, pumping it right back up to $60, $80 billion, because ultimately they could probably only do that for a couple of months and they will hit these, these barrier limits, if you like. Um, not unless they were to reshape the entire kind of deal in that sense of, of how QE is conducted. So yeah, a couple things to think about. Last few headlines, as I briefly mentioned at the beginning, the US State Department has approved possible $2.2 billion arms sale to Taiwan. Um, those who know their Chinese politics will know that, you know, Taiwan is a particularly contentious issue for the idea of the One China policy, of which Taiwan wants its sovereignty, but China sees Taiwan as, uh, Chinese territory, and so therefore should be governed by the main state in Beijing. So the fact that the US are going to sell Taiwan over $2 billion worth of arms equipment is only going to, you know, stir the hornet's nest, if you like, poking China in the wrong way when you're trying to deal with them over a negotiation on a bigger level, trade talks at the moment. So those talks are recommencing, I believe, even today or this week. And so, you know, definitely be interested to see what China's response is to this because they, they definitely won't be pleased by this latest development. Okay, quick look at the calendar. What have we got today? Um, a reminder here that the market this morning is moving very much on just general sentiment rather than a specific one headline. For this week, the biggest event is Jerome Powell speaking tomorrow afternoon. So much like, I would say, the build-up in anticipation to a big data release kind of like in a micro sense, the build-up to Non-Farm Payrolls, the market waits, then it sees big movement after. That's going to be key tomorrow. So could be a likelihood that definitely there's some key technical downside support points across different assets that you need to keep an eye on that could lead to a further continuation of this, this trend that we've been seeing. Lower equities, maybe a flight to quality in terms of into the dollar and weighing on the major currency pairs and so on. But given the magnitude of tomorrow, today could well start to, to die down a little bit, is what I'm saying. So yeah, if within— without the, the technical breaches, we could get a fairly range session because of how important that speech is tomorrow. And again, the reason why is because we're looking for confirmation of what is the Fed stance, given the fact that we seem to be heading towards potentially a more aggressive 50 basis point cut. Potentially, but that got wiped off the table by Non-Farm. Is the market right to remove that option? And hopefully we'll get clarity not only from Powell. If you remember, there's 5 other Fed speakers also talking on Thursday, which is part of the classic kind of contingency planning just in case the market misinterprets what Powell says on Wednesday in his first testimony. So today, this morning, is very quiet. There really is nothing on the docket, not until this afternoon, where again there's no major 1:30s coming out of the States. NFB Business Optimism Index is not really a classic market mover, nor is JOLTS, although it has been a typical or previous favored number that the Fed would look at, but not so much these days, I would say. And then the API inventories, of course, not until later on this evening. So the one thing I would keep an eye on is Fed speakers. Let me blow this up a little bit. You can see you've got Fed's Powell at 1:45, Bullard at 3:10, Bostic and Quarles for later on this evening. What I would say here is Powell, even though he's important I would find it highly surprising if he says anything before the key testimony tomorrow. So I'd very much— although I would keep an eye, an ear out for Powell at 1:45, I'm almost entirely sure he will stick specifically to the subject of stress testing, which he's talking about today, rather than anything about the economy and monetary policy. Okay, that's it from me. Let me hand you over to Mr. North. And I'll wish you a good day ahead. Thanks very much.
Morning guys, I hope we've all had a good morning so far. Start off with the, with the DAX, as Ant mentioned this morning, pushing down to that S2. We've had a bit of a snapback, come back to what was the previous high of the Asian session, yesterday's low as well. That offered a good resistance reference point to, to offer an opportunity for the sellers to get back in again. Was also a key level that we had back from Tuesday last week. That gap fill is still going to be eyed up by people in the future. Let me just bring that into the left-hand side of the— the right-hand side of the, the, the camera. So keeping an eye on that, and any breakthrough there could see, you know, further push lower. However, that is obviously quite low down, has to be said. Um, so yeah, keeping a close watch on the proceedings, or, you know, as we're now half hour into, into that open. Having a look into the currencies, and with the pound under pressure this morning, uh, where could it go to? Obviously the, the key support being tested now from last week's low. Uh, to the upside, if we can get a retracement Uh, you'd be eyeing up the low that we had from yesterday, which is around the S1. Uh, so a nice area where you've got your two resistance points. I'll just be a bit careful, uh, of how it gets to there because you can see really the, the move started earlier this morning. So around the, the lower points around here in this zone from— we call that 125.46. So if you were to get in, uh, around the S1 area you might just want to stagger the entry towards that price. I know that might mean a bit too large a stop. If that is the case, maybe yesterday's low stop above this 46 level might be more appealing to get in if we get a retracement. Of course, it's getting a bit choppy around here. You can see on the, on the 5-minute, good first reaction to the S2 as you would expect, and we're sort of coming into this new range here. So even if we were to get a push above, you can see that might mean that the S1, which seems now a bit middle of nowhere when we lower the time frame down, might be that more bit more preferable to look towards yesterday's low and also around 46 where we had a decent breakdown this morning. Euro, uh, got the, the comments, uh, the stories circling about new round of QE, how's this going to weigh on things? Where you can see this morning we're hitting that third bottom from Friday's low, yesterday's low, today's low. Obviously with the S1 there, you could for sure expect some support, which has come in, uh, quite a small, quite a small range though, that has to be said. And I think if you're looking for, for the opportunity, either a break of all of this to then come back and test it, you know, this for me would be something to look out later in the day, something like that. Or if we can get a decent trend line, obviously we've only got the two tests there, maybe the push higher at some point. But even saying that, you can see the pivot along with some resistance points yesterday may well look to, to come in and halt progress there. So euro for me doesn't look too appealing at the moment. If we were to get a decent rally higher to, to towards yesterday's high and the R1, there might, might be a better opportunity. But at the moment, small range. But you can see, I'll just move things across, just perhaps why we are slowing up a bit around this, this area just below where we're trading. You've got the, uh, the low from the 19th and the 18th just a few pips below that area as well. So Euro it's getting squeezed in from, from both directions. Maybe, uh, the opportunity comes later on in the afternoon should we get a push higher or break all of that support as well. And look at the Aussie, some decent opportunities in the Aussie as of late with these trendline breaks. You can see yesterday that happening, uh, in the morning. You had the overnight trend break here as well, um, which has led to a further push down. It's offered quite good opportunities. A couple of times on the S1 retest, it's, it's found resistance. However, now being quite low and some key support just a bit below where we're trading— if I just again move that above the camera, you can see this whole zone going back to the highs that we had back on the morning of the 21st, the low of the 25th 5-tick range or zone where you could expect some decent support. Break below there and obviously price could push to the downside further. However, already below S2, whether you would want to get too involved in that if that was to happen today. Similar to the euro in that price just getting squeezed from the upside, uh, following these, these trends. While they're not amazing, you can see an opportunity could come on the break of the that, just being aware of course of any of the previous lows that would offer a bit of resistance as well. Opportunity-wise, if we were to push higher, certainly looking at a retest of 6983. I know a long way away, but potentially in the afternoon you can see this area hadn't necessarily been retested. So I'll be looking to see if price can come back to there to of course find some resistance. However, if we were to push on, and this could be any market, if we do get a really clear break of this trend, of course now that resistance point you do, you'd want to leave alone. So if we were to break this trend line with some speed, I would just remove orders, and effectively that trend line has, has changed a bit as well. However, you can see retest of the trends higher up could also offer some resistance So for now, Aussie does seem like the opportunity should be to, to get short unless these trend lines really do break. Speaking of trend lines, the yen is similar to Aussie in that the opportunity came yesterday following a break of that in the afternoon. You could argue we again got a bit of a breakdown just now, just recently. All of these working quite well. I know this would have been early in the morning along with the previous highs of the day, lows of yesterday, as a good resistance point. We're just testing the low now, so opportunity for resistance above where we're trading. I'll be keeping a close eye on this point here. So you can see what was the trendline break, what was the area support around quarter past 7 and quarter to 8, uh, around 92.37 and a half. That would be somewhere I'll be looking for some resistance. If we were to push lower, where could we come to? And of course, the dollar now strengthening again against most of these pairs. You can see, uh, well, I guess it's got a bit of a room— bit of room to go, really. What could stop it is equities if they were to push lower. Understandably, that first test of that low just holding up quite nicely. I think opportunity-wise, uh, retest of that area a bit looks quite interesting should we get in. And for that small stop, don't need too much in it. Maybe you want to protect it by having it the other side of this trend line as well, uh, to, to get in, target in the low. Good risk reward on that as well. Moving over to US equities, um, we have drifted down off those highs, and I wouldn't be too surprised to see that continue. Uh, I think to, to want to get long, you've got to, you've got to find out where maybe these lines in the sand are. I know people were looking at that trendline break and yesterday, and you can just see how messy that was. You had a brief go at quarter past 5. I mean, the target would of course have to be S1, so probably got stopped out the first time. Risk reward doesn't make sense, and later on it finds support there. So a bit messy on that. However, if we were to to push higher at some point. I mean, it's not, not great really on these trend lines to have marked up. I mean, you could argue this one's probably the, the better one, starting from yesterday morning's high at 9, been quite well respected. So along above there, or, and yesterday's low, you might see things really start to push higher. But for now, I think as long as we remain below 2973 3, the short might be the preferred option, uh, as well. And you can see this trend from the low. We are just, um, making higher lows, but a break of that and you could absolutely get a further push down. And then suddenly you're looking towards, uh, the S2 levels and, and lows that we had from the second— so Tuesday last week as well. Relatively quiet though for, for now after, you know, the DAX did push lower, which also dragged US equities, uh, to an extent. I'm going to look at gold and oil just to, to wrap things up. Gold relatively quiet in a bit of a range. Pivot looks quite interesting from a technical point of view, $1,400, uh, the handle, previous highs from yesterday. However, also some resistance just above that. So as a zone, as it goes, it's relatively big, about $2. So picking the entry there, you'd have to be a bit careful, more waiting to see what happens around that, that point. And also whether you would want to go short there or not, for me, would depend on what happens, or what would happen, how we get there. How do we break this trend line? Is it really aggressive? And therefore actually the long is the opportunity. To the downside, you can see we haven't had a third test of this trend line here. That'd be interesting to see what happens for those. It could well be that the opportunities are, the breaks either way. Of course though, decent resistance points above the, the top trend line of the pennant, and decent support you could argue below that as well. That's where I would be, be looking. If I could choose only one trade, I think I do like the, the short from 14.05.3, nice on the pivot yesterday. We didn't really get a full retest of that whole area, 14.06. 14.05 and a half. I would quite like the look of getting back in again. You can see really nice support before that breakdown. Could that happen today? Well, knowing gold, it, uh, it could happen in, in, in 30 minutes or so, but I don't doubt— I don't necessarily think that will happen today. Wrapping up on, on oil, uh, tight range, tight range, key support being tested all throughout this morning and yesterday. You can see quite wicky on that, so So if you were looking for the breakout yesterday, which is of course Non-Farm Payroll Monday, the post of that is always unwise. You would have got your fingers burnt a couple of times. So, you know, this is now a zone, now about an 8-tick zone. Wait for anything to happen to the downside, that would have to clear. And even saying that, next key support is 12 ticks below. So does the risk-reward of that really make too much sense? We are just getting squeezed, uh, you know, each, each of the day's range is looking quite small. I mean, it doesn't look too appealing right now unless we were to really break either way. Now, I'll be interested to see what other people think about oil. For me, it doesn't look too appealing, I would say, right now, unless maybe break, retest, to then get into, to attempt to go in either way on the break of the range. Whether that's gonna happen Today on, uh, on Tuesday, uh, I'm not too sure. The data calendar, again, not massively, uh, busy. If we just have a quick flick back to that, you can see really the only things that are going to move from a data schedule— well, I know we're just talking about oil there, so the API before that, a bit limited. Although obviously UK Conservative stuff on ITV, the, uh, debate. That would obviously be something to stick around with. Pound actually again just testing that low. And then the speakers as well. But in, in summary of everything, the pound under pressure. Keep an eye out for euro-related ECB, uh, ECB QE chat. China-US trade talks perhaps just, uh, weighing on, on things as well. And sentiment, the S&P and the DAX just, uh, coming back down to lower levels. And actually the DAX just breaking that low. So remember the, the gap fill almost, almost happening. So keep an eye on this because obviously the idea would be you'd have a decent reaction where people would be looking to take profit and, um, or go long. So quite a key level coming up there, uh, just below where we're trading. Uh, and also calendar-wise, I'm going to be expecting too much other than maybe the speakers. But as Ant mentioned, where with Powell speaking, um, a stress test discussion, uh, unlikely to really move markets too much. Anyway, key level coming up on the DAX, just testing there now. If that breaks, you can imagine S&P would, would also follow suit with US equities, Dow and Nasdaq of course doing the same. Hope you all have a good morning, good trading day. And I look forward to speaking to you all later on.
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