U.S. 10-Year Surges On Opening, FOMO Is Back
Mati Greenspan | Feb 15, 2018 05:03AM ET
Hope you're having a fantastic day so far. All the markets went up yesterday for a special Valentine's Day miracle.
The FOMO is back with a vengeance and though we're nowhere near peak FOMO levels seen in November, we can clearly see that the FUD is fading fast and markets are getting excited once again.
Bitcoin is looking ready and willing to bust through 10k, possibly today. If it does indeed manage to do that, we may never look back.
That said, the usual disclaimers apply. These are super high-risk assets so any cryptocurrency should not take up more than a small part of your overall portfolio.
h2 Today's Highlights/h2- Inflation is Coming
- Chikun Leading the Way
- XRP on Western Union
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Traditional Markets There are two types of FOMO in this world. Healthy and unhealthy.
I must say that the FOMO in the stock markets yesterday was more than a bit concerning. The inflation numbers that every analyst and their brother were so hyper-focused on came out way above expectations showing that inflation is coming to the United States at a rapid pace.
The initial reaction in the stock markets was down as expected, but what happened next was a total surprise. Once the lows were in, things started rising as Wall Street moved in to buy the dip.
Even more confusing is the reaction from the US dollar. The conventional thinking is that higher inflation would cause the Fed to hike rates faster, which in turn would strengthen the Buck.
Just like the stocks, the initial response was as expected and the dollar rose sharply on the announcement. However, just a few short minutes later the dollar started falling and continued to fall all the way until this morning.
Here's the USD/JPY. The announcement is circled in yellow.
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The only reaction that really made sense was in the bond market. Here we can see the yield on the US 10-Year surging at the market open and rising until the close.
So now the question becomes: If the markets are skyrocketing after this huge inflation data came out, then what the heck really caused the sell-off over the last two weeks?
Chikun Leading the Cryptos
All the cryptos are firmly in the green today but none quite as much as Litecoin . The world's first and most established bitcoin spinoff is up almost 60% over the last 7 days, half of which happened in the last 24 hours.
Here we can see a nice clean breakout in both the long term (blue) and short term (yellow) trendlines...
Though some are still speculating over the reasons for this massive rally, we can point to three main factors.
1. A scam hard fork called Litecoin Cash seems to have duped some. The founder of Litecoin himself has denounced this fork this announcement is a bit old, it may still be spurring speculation.
3. The FOMO is figgen back in the market!
Crypto investors have been sitting on their hands for weeks waiting for a rally, so as soon as they saw one starting they jumped on and and are currently riding it for all it's worth.
XRP Strikes Back
One more neat announcements that's adding to crypto-enthusiasm today is a new pilot by the global fund transfer powerhouse Western Union.
Whilst many new pilots announced by Ripple Labs lately do not use the XRP tokens, this one will.
That means both Moneygram) and Western Union are now testing out XRP to do their cash settlements and currency transfers.
Imagine the possibilities. I'll let you guys draw the lines on this chart but I'd like to see a moon in there somewhere. ;)
@MatiGreenspan
eToro, Senior Market Analyst
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