- Global liquidity conditions are stable; central bank balance sheets (especially the Fed) have stopped contracting, which is a positive for market liquidity.
- Current financial regime is risk-off: real bond yields are positive and exceed the S&P 500's forward earnings yield (4.28% vs 3.43%), making bonds relatively attractive. However, select mega-cap tech stocks like Microsoft and Google have much higher forward earnings yields (~27%).
- The oil market is in extreme volatility (99th percentile) due to the Hormuz Strait disruption. Russian Urals crude now trades at a $5-6 premium to Brent (vs. a previous $20 discount), which could significantly boost future cash flows for Russian oil companies and the Russian budget, though logistical challenges remain.
- Bitcoin is in a downtrend and is expected to find a bottom between $25,000 and $50,000 by late 2026/early 2027. A buy trigger would require a break above and successful test of the moving average.
- Silver is being accumulated via the SLV ETF and options, anticipating a triangle pattern will eventually resolve upwards after further possible downside.
- Gold is being re-entered with an expectation of a mean reversion bounce to around $5,000 by April-May, driven by technical patterns (potential triangle completion) and extreme deviation from its moving average.
- The March OPEX (quadruple witching) created massive negative gamma, exacerbating the sell-off in equities. With that options series expired, a technical bounce is likely in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, targeting ~6,750-6,800 on the NDX.
- Intuitive Surgical (INSI) is being bought for its explosive fundamental growth (EPS up 2000% YoY) and a cup-and-handle technical pattern; a break above $150 would be a signal to add.
- Cyclical sectors, particularly housing (e.g., Lennar) and financials with private credit exposure (e.g., KKR, Apollo), are seeing institutional selling and deteriorating fundamentals, signaling elevated risk.
- Market sentiment (Fear & Greed Ind