Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

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<li>Key supports are currently being tested at 3900-3910 on the S&amp;P 500, $293 on the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ), and $177-178 on the Russell 2000 (IWM).</li>
<li>We see a bounce as possible at these levels, but breaks below these levels would virtually guarantee a test of the YTD lows -- or worse.</li>
<li>WTI crude oil is breaking below the critical $85 support level, confirming a major top in place. The Bloomberg commodity index needs to break $32.50 to confirm a major top.</li>
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Key supports are currently being tested at 3900-3910 on the S&amp;P 500, $293 on the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ), and $177-178 on the Russell 2000 (IWM).
We see a bounce as possible at these levels, but breaks below these levels would virtually guarantee a test of the YTD lows -- or worse.
WTI crude oil is breaking below the critical $85 support level, confirming a major top in place. The Bloomberg commodity index needs to break $32.50 to confirm a major top.


S&P 500 Testing 3900 Support; Commodities, WTI Crude Oil Topping?; Buying Uranium, Ag Equipment

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<ul><li>The benchmark, CRB Commodity Index, ended the week 3,5% lower</li><li>Things won’t get better and the current dump of energy products on the futures marketplace is in my opinion only a short-term phenomenon, caused by an ultra hawkish FED that will lead the economy into a recession and that probably with a hard and not a soft landing.</li><li>Since the covid pandemic began and economies around the world started to go all in on renewable plans, not only production capacity was shut down but also refinery capacity</li></ul>

The benchmark, CRB Commodity Index, ended the week 3,5% lowerThings won’t get better and the current dump of energy products on the futures marketplace is in my opinion only a short-term phenomenon, caused by an ultra hawkish FED that will lead the economy into a recession and that probably with a hard and not a soft landing.Since the covid pandemic began and economies around the world started to go all in on renewable plans, not only production capacity was shut down but also refinery capacity

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<li>The benchmark, CRB Commodity Index, ended the week 1,4% lower.</li>
<li>What bottoms usually first? Bonds! While we may be some weeks off the low in the treasury markets, I think it’s important to remember the typical cycle of asset classes.</li>
<li>Usually, treasuries bottom first, then follow stocks and at the end commodities. We saw the same cycle peaking in 2020 with bonds peaking first, followed by stocks and now commodities.</li>
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The benchmark, CRB Commodity Index, ended the week 1,4% lower.
What bottoms usually first? Bonds! While we may be some weeks off the low in the treasury markets, I think it’s important to remember the typical cycle of asset classes.
Usually, treasuries bottom first, then follow stocks and at the end commodities. We saw the same cycle peaking in 2020 with bonds peaking first, followed by stocks and now commodities.


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<li>The benchmark, CRB Commodity Index, ended the week 1,2% lower </li>
<li>The news of the week was probably that the Atlanta FED changed its GDP now forecast drastically and signaled that a recession as soon as January 2023 is likely.</li>
<li>Commodities plunged after that news because demand destruction could become worse over time. Nevertheless, we need to differentiate.</li>
</ul>


The benchmark, CRB Commodity Index, ended the week 1,2% lower 
The news of the week was probably that the Atlanta FED changed its GDP now forecast drastically and signaled that a recession as soon as January 2023 is likely.
Commodities plunged after that news because demand destruction could become worse over time. Nevertheless, we need to differentiate.


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<li>Besides global growth concerns as Central Banks step up their battle against inflation, and China's zero-covid restrictions may stretch into 2023, it is quite clear what the main story was this week</li>
<li>Russia cut up to 60% of its gas flows to Germany. It will become very hard for Europe to get over the next winter if gas flows remain that low</li>
<li>Rate hiking cycles end when the Fed Funds target rate catches up to where the 2-year T-Note yield has already gone</li>
</ul>


Besides global growth concerns as Central Banks step up their battle against inflation, and China's zero-covid restrictions may stretch into 2023, it is quite clear what the main story was this week
Russia cut up to 60% of its gas flows to Germany. It will become very hard for Europe to get over the next winter if gas flows remain that low
Rate hiking cycles end when the Fed Funds target rate catches up to where the 2-year T-Note yield has already gone


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