The Detma model remains long USD, long JPY and short EUR. No fundamental analysis was required for this positioning. Being a systematic model it just follows the price action. If the trends turn out to be fizzers, then they are forgotten and cast aside. If the trends turn out to be meaningful, as is the case now, then volumes of writings and analysis appear justifying the positions. In the meantime, isolated completely from all of this, the systematic models just continue to tick away.
The Detma model trend Beta chart shown above shows the movements away from the average trend of the last twelve months for each currency traded by the model. To better indicate the speed of some of these trends, yesterday's measurement is compared to the measurement at the beginning of the month. Any Beta measure over 2.5 is extremely "overcooked". The implications are that this trend is likely to either mark time, or reverse in on itself, to bring the Beta measure back down towards 1. If the Beta goes to zero it implies a reversal in trend.
What does all of this mean? Well, these extreme trend deviations are mean reverting - obviously other wise the world would blow up. I'm not referring so much here to points movement, but more so the rate of change in these moves. That is the extreme trend condition can be moderated through a sideways triangle as much as through a sharp reversal. Therefore, as the AUDUSD chart shows we may well have finished wave 3 of C down and are entering wave 4 for a sideways triangle that may last a few days. It implies that there is still an end of the world panic sell off to around .7500 to come. Maybe that will force the authorities to get behind this and act resolutely to calm the markets - if they can.
By the way, in my post "The Mother of all Bubbles" of 27 April I had this count as one of the possibilities for the AUDUSD. So far it is panning out very closely to this. What this implies is that at around 0.7500 the Aussie may be the buy of the century.Frank
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