Hey Trader,
It hit 111 degrees here on Tuesday. By five in the afternoon it had cooled off to 101.
Right now it is 94 outside. The heat is not really the story. The humidity is.
That kind of buildup is what we call Indian summer. It signals the end of one season and the start of another.
The bond market is giving off the same signal. It sits in a very precarious position right now.
I call it Humpty Dumpty. It is perched on the edge of a wall.
When it falls off that wall, it blows out the bond market. Then it blows out the stock market right behind it.
Bessent is buying Treasuries to hold that level up. He is doing it because a major buyer is pulling back.
That buyer is Japan. Their rates just hit the highest level in about 40 years.
In this article I will show you the exact level Jeff is watching. I will name the buyer who is leaving and the two holders who follow.
Then I will show you how the Genesis Cog Scanner reads a level that is held up by intervention instead of demand.
A support level defended by a buyer with a mandate is not support. It is a delay.
A Level Nobody Is Defending On Purpose
The bond market is in a very, very precarious position right now. I have watched enough cycles to know what that setup produces.
Think of Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall. He is right on the edge.
When he goes off that wall, the bond market blows out. The stock market goes with it.
Bessent is trying to stabilize the debt market. Understand the mechanics before you judge the risk.
The Fed chairman does not set the buying program. The Treasury does.
The Fed sets the interest rate on overnight lending. The Treasury then reacts by buying or selling Treasuries.
When they buy Treasuries, it injects money into the economy. Rates come down.
When they sell Treasuries, rates lift. The cost of capital gets more expensive.
Bessent is stabilizing the debt market as a major buyer pulls back. That last part carries all the weight.
What The Ledge Looks Like On The Chart
You are on the ledge of complete, utter collapse right here. You can see it on the chart.
The bonds are sitting on 108. That level is 20 years in the making.
Go through 107 and it becomes a bear market for the ages. It will take you down.
It turns into a Nike. It turns into a Lululemon.
Those names blew people out for a long time. The bond market can do the same thing on a far bigger scale.
The Buyer Walking Away Is Japan
The Japanese are bailing on the US bond market. They have their own fish to fry.
Japan is now at a three to 3.5 handle. That is the highest interest rate there in about 40 years.
The Japanification is over with. Their rates are going up.
If they play catch up to us, it starts to blow out the bonds. Higher bond rates leave them no choice but to sell.
Bessent has one eye on Japan and one eye on you. He is stepping in to buy against that selling.
He is doing it because he knows the Japanese are about to bail. That tells you what he sees.
Now follow the chain one step further. Other holders sit on that same wall.
It could be the Norwegians. It could be the Chinese.
They own trillions of dollars of US Treasuries. When rates go up, they have to sell too.
They cannot let this bleed. Some of them will buy puts on the bonds instead.
Some will build a cockamamie financial structure to offset it. That approach blows the problem out further.
This is not an American problem anymore. It is a universal, global economic problem.
The Optics Are Lying To You
The stock market is sitting at an all-time high. The bond market is sitting at a multi-year low about to collapse.
Sit with that for a second. We are at a crossroads.
I have been around this business too long to think that fundamentals do not matter. The optics say calm.
Do not trust optics. Go research who actually owns these bonds, and it will shock you.
How I Would Handle This Monday
I do not know the exact trigger for the break. Neither do you.
Anybody telling you they know is guessing. When it comes, it will be too late for the shorts and the longs both.
That is why I trade the slope instead of the forecast. If you are on the wrong side of the slope, you are a dope.
Here is the sequence I run on every name when a macro wall like this is in play:
- Check the weekly MACD first, because a rollover means the algorithms have stopped buying
- Read money flow next, since money flow never lies and analysts do
- Wait a full half hour after the open, because the first five minutes of the day are worthless
When the weekly MACD has rolled over, you are the only buyer left. That is the whole warning.
If you worked for me and bought that dip, I would fire you. You cannot buy on the way down.
Buy on the way up and you get rich. Buy on the way down and you get poor.
My own approach stays simple through all of it. I short expensive, I buy cheap, and I let it play.
When 107 finally gives way, the damage will not arrive alphabetically. It will show up first in the names where money flow already turned and the slope already rolled.
I short expensive, I buy cheap, and I let it play. That approach does not require me to know when 107 gives way.
Watching one level is something you can do on your own. The 108 sits right there on the chart, and 107 sits underneath it.
Watching which two hundred names crack first when that level gives is a different job entirely.
I read the indicators all day long, twelve hours a day. I scrub every trade through the full model hunting for the things that are out of whack and do not fit.
That work is what the Genesis COG System hands you. You get the slope rules, the weekly MACD read that tells you the algorithms have quit a name, and the money flow overlay that showed somebody loading the boat on Walmart while it still looked broken.
I still make mistakes. They stay small because I track every indicator, every day, and I never trade off one of them alone.
A macro warning without a scan is just a headline. The scan is what turns 107 into a position.
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Professor Jeffrey Bierman
Creator of the Genesis COG System
