Commodities || Global Macro || Precious Metals
The internets biggest commodity bull 🐂
Not trading advice or offer to sell securities or advisory services
2024 is the year of "three chokepoints."
Expect disruptions to the flow of:
- Gold 🪙 (money)
- Oil 🛢️(energy)
- Wheat🌾(food)
Make sure you are long all three.
The downside to all the people who locked in sub 3% mortgages is that are effectively trapped labor.
I'd rather be a renter with flexibility and mobility, able to move rapidly in a quickly changing labor market, than stuck in my $700k home with a 3% mortgage.
It's quite simple:
Gold has been suppressed for decades to allow for cheap energy and global growth.
Gold suppression is ending as cheap energy is now over.
The artificial offer on gold is lifting.
Newmont Mining Company is trading around 12 times free cash flow.
That's a yield of ~8.3%.
Or you can lend your money to US gov for 1.3%.
Your choice.
$NEM
The case for gold is incredibly simple right now.
Priced in world currency units, gold is trading at exactly the same price as it was before COVID!
Despite a >70% increase in money supply, gold hasn't moved.
In 2018 China knew there was a problem, but did not know the extent of it, and hid their response from the world. Since it's seasonal, it mutated and resurfaced in May 2019 & sent PLA into emergency response mode.
Too late however as it already was in Japan, Taiwan, Korea, etc.
We're nearing peak "reflation" euphoria.
As the pressure mounts, markets will suck everyone into the "reflation" "inflation" trade, right before the BIG DEFLATION hits.
Be careful.
I highly encourage investors to read
@_whitneywebb
articles on the coming Continuity of Government (CoG) crisis and imposition of martial law.
The Dark Winter, Operation Blackout, and the imminent imposition of martial law.
Corn is currently trading at $4.22.
Given a 40% expansion of the M2 money supply, this is equivalent to $3.01 in US dollars before COVID.
Corn bottomed at $3.01 last cycle meaning any lower prices from here will be an all-time record inflation-adjusted low.
The 10 year rolling return of commodities has not been this poor since before World War 2.
Commodities are cheap both on a relative and absolute basis.
@chamath
Confirming my suspicions that
@chamath
is nothing but a gambler.
Not a wise investor.
Chamath, like most, has simply benefited from corrupt monetary policy and ridden the wave of fraudulent Federal Reserve liquidity.
The next 10 years will sorely disappoint you, Chamath.
S&P500 versus US treasury bonds gone parabolic.
Luke Gromen
@LukeGromen
mentioned a couple years ago that Fed and Treasury cannot let this ratio go down proved prescient.
Where will this ratio go from here?
Wheat is the cheapest asset on Earth.
Using artificial intelligence I have calculated the approximate gold / wheat ratio in ancient Rome.
One gold aureus (~$677.20 gold coin) could buy 12 modii (barrels) of wheat.
Today, that same gold coin can buy about 351 modii of wheat
This tweet triggered a lot of homeowners. It was mostly referencing all the people I saw panic buying homes in the last 12 months with most of their life savings at the top.
Come next year, they won't be too happy about their purchase, and will be praying they don't lose job.
@APompliano
Agreed. I used to be a Bitcoin maximalist many years ago and thought Bitcoin was going to save the world.
Now I think it's probably a ponzi scheme.
Watching the U.S Dollar sitting on it's final support, in my opinion. Break 96 to the downside should see a swift decline to the 92 area.
Milkshake theorists should be trembling.
You can't board a plane with more than $10,000 without declaring it.
Why would they let you board a plane a leave the country with 5 Bitcoin without declaring it?
Regulation is coming.
The stock market is completely oblivious to the massive bid in risk-off markets right now.
- Eurodollars
- Gold / Silver
- Falling oil / copper
Commodities always move first, then fixed income, then equities.
I wouldn't doubt this.
The board of Theranos were all CIA operatives.
Theranos was a front for the intelligence community for "something" extremely important.
@_whitneywebb
Today's market action is proof someone is propping up financial markets.
Shots fired on the house floor, the Capitol overrun, and stocks are up.
Remember this moment. It's all fake.
Wait until Reddit realizes you can leverage 4:1 in futures and corner the entire Minneapolis Spring Wheat market with less than $80mm.
Would only take $400mm to break the US wheat market.
Commodities and gold have been incredibly strong even in the face of a rising dollar since 2018.
What happens to commodities and gold when the dollar turns down and becomes a tailwind instead of a headwind?
@Oliver_MSA
@paulg
I drive a car for two reasons.
Because I'm young and healthy and enjoy the freedom of driving.
Because I don't care about the people I have an extremely low risk of crashing into.
The financial crisis is when gold goes up, not down.
Gold going down means that central banks are in control of the situation. They love this.
Real panic sets in when gold goes up, uncontrollably.
That is the real financial crisis.
Commodities look to have officially broken out.
Trend is now up for the first time since 2002.
"From failed moves come fast moves."
The bear trap low in March was unconfirmed and ultimately a trap that should prove to be a reliable secular low.
"Smart money" commercials, typically net short one of the below, are long all three of the following:
- U.S equities
- U.S dollar
- U.S treasury bonds
It's almost as if smart money is anticipating big capital inflows into the United States.
@LukeGromen
@SantiagoAuFund
Going forward over the next 10-20 years, your home equity will be flat or down on a real basis, and there likely won't be much liquidity if you need to sell.
If you rent, you cashflow 4% at best.
I'll take treasury bills at 4% with the optionality and extra liquidity ✌️
One of my favorite macro signals is starting to flash "bullish".
Commercial hedgers are now net long...
- Lumber
- Cotton
- Copper
Happened in 2008, 2012, 2015, 2019 (before blowoff top).
Hmm.
Laugh all you want, but cotton's recent crash should have bond traders on high alert.
Cotton prices tend to lead US 10Y yields.
In every single divergence over the past 6 years, cotton has ended up being "right"
To be clear, I still think inflation is the correct posture for the rest of the decade.
I want to buy dips in commodities, sell rallies in treasuries, and sell rallies in equities.
Short-term, I still think the market needs one more deflationary collapse to inflict pain.
@EthicalSkeptic
@hendrick2018
Crazy, so Omicron is a relative of the first lab leak that quietly circulated in Africa and parts of Asia giving people natural immunity in 2018 that has re-emerged.
@nntaleb
Assumes natural immunity is less robust than vaccine?
If natural immunity applied at scale is more robust and anti-fragile... then it is the nonvacinated who are taking the risk.
I believe vaccine has black swan risk to the downside when applied at scale. Natural does not.
One of my favorite ideas other than agricultural commodities is Uranium and Uranium miners.
Starting to see some positive momentum building here. $CCJ breaking out.
Adding to my position.
#Uranium
#U308
$URA
Normies, gym bros, and political commentators are talking about how Evergrande contagion is a going to spread and crash the market.
That's how you know it won't.
After calling for a major high in commodities last summer - while oil was spiking - I think commodities are now entering a significant low.
Bloomberg Commodity Index Futures revisiting an area of previous resistance that should hold as support.
@morganisawizard
Yep, been doing it for years.
It's probably 3-5% more expensive per box with the extra shipping fee and takes an extra week, but worth it.
@MichaelPSenger
The Eye of Sauron has directed its gaze towards India.
1. Try to scare uneducated public into lockdowns to cause civil unrest, famine, death, etc.
2. Western oligarchs will use civil unrest as catalyst for regime change in India as to pressure China on US terms.
Commercial insiders ('smart money') are near record long Dr. Copper.
Copper tends to bottom when commercial longs approach +50,000 contracts.
Hedgers don't seem too worried about the economy, in fact they appear to be positioned quite bullishly.
I struggle to see how the biggest financial bubble in human history ends quietly with a whimper and rollover.
I think Dave Hunter is on to something with a final blow-off top. A final feeding frenzy of greed and speculation. The most horrifying parabolic move ever to come.
Predicting is fun, albeit no proper way to manage risk and manage money.
That being said, here is the scenario I'm watching for 10-year yields.
A retest of the breakdown level around 1.40%, followed by a move to 0%
@DaveHcontrarian
@DeItaOne
People don't understand Gundlach, unlike most managers, is a position trader.
He identifies risk vs. reward, trade locations, and builds positions slowly with a long-term time horizon.
He is not ALL IN SHORT at 2863.
"Beware the steepener."
The yield curve steepens into the onset of a recession and precedes stock market crunches.
The recession is just getting started.
The S&P500 is about to get eviscerated.
Populism Risk.
Wait until the masses realize the currency in their wallet is a fraud.
Wait until they realize they need to buy groceries with Monopoly money.
If brokerage houses can lock you out of trading. Banks can lock you out of "your money."
Crude oil has a ~5% positive roll yield.
I can lend my cash to the bankrupt U.S government for ~1.5% or hold the most systemically important asset on the planet for 5%, with an embedded upside tail?
Yeah, I'll take the oil.
#OOTT