The Fed meets this week on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The market believes that there is an 86% chance the Fed will be hiking rates during this meeting. The Fed has been broadcasting this for a month straight. It is possibly THE most expected rate hike in years. The consensus is that we will see a 0.25% rate hike bringing the Federal Funds Target rate to 0.75%-1.00%.
BORING.
No one makes money by trading the most expected thing. With that in mind, what the Fed does or doesn’t do is largely irrelevant as far as I’m concerned.
The far more important development for the markets comes from the ECB,which revealed that it discussed a “rate hike” before the end of QE during its meeting last week.
Bear in mind, this is the ECB… which has cut rates into NEGATIVE four times; the same Central Bank that is currently engaged in a €60 billion per month QE program.
And it is talking about RAISING RATES.
THIS is something few in the markets are anticipating. And it has set the stage for a RAGING Euro rally (and $USD Collapse).
The Euro comprises 56% of the basket of currencies against which the $USD trades. So if the Euro begins to rally based on the ECB tightening, the $USD will drop hard. You can see the two currencies “mirroring” one another in the chart below. You can also see the Euro bottoming out and preparing to rally hard.
THIS is the big issue for the markets this week: not a completely expected Fed rate hike, but a completely UNEXPECTED potential rate hike from the ECB.
The market is not ready for this. And it's going to cause an "event" for many asset classes.
According to fund managers, being long the $USD is the single most popular trade in the world right now.
So what do you think will happen when these investors are caught on the wrong side of this trade as the Euro erupts and the $USD plunges… particularly since stocks have been tracking the $USD closely since early February?
These charts are warning that the market is susceptible to a sharp correction at best and possibly even a meltdown.
On that note, we are already preparing our clients for this with a 21-page investment report titled the Stock Market Crash Survival Guide.
In it, we outline the coming collapse will unfold…which investments will perform best… and how to take out “crash” insurance trades that will pay out huge returns during a market collapse.
We are giving away just 99 copies of this report for FREE to the public.
To pick up yours, swing by:
Best Regards
Graham Summers
Chief Market Strategist
Phoenix Capital Research
via http://ift.tt/2mj8hOK Phoenix Capital Research