Mr. Trump went to China.  

That’s it, nothing happened. The deal-maker in chief made no deals, though he did take credit for $250Bn in business deals, which were actually the course of our normal trade with China, like $36Bn worth of Boeing (BA) planes, most of which were already part of their existing backlog.  While these transparent attempts to puff himself up may work with the gullible US voters, Trump faced mockery in the Chinese press – even the “official” press which said: “Emotional venting cannot become a guiding policy for solving the nuclear issue on the peninsula.”

There was no trade deal, no pushback on exports, no movement on China’s currency manipulation, NOTHING which Trump promised during the campaign and nothing is coming from Trump’s “great friendship” with China’s President Xi. Trump went so far, in fact, to absolve China for unfair trade practices saying they were only doing what’s best for their country and it was the fault of past US Presidents for making bad deals – like the one he is sticking to by leaving China empty-handed.  

“After all, who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens. I give China great credit, but in actuality I do blame past administrations for allowing this out-of-control trade deficit to take place.” 

Japan’s Nikkei went on a wild ride last night and is currently off 1.666% at 22,580 after bottoming out at 22,500 and we noted this action in Tuesday’s morning Report and shorted the Dow Futures at 23,500 in our Live Trading Webinar yesterday along with Oil (/CL at $57.50) and, yesterday, in our Live Member Chat Room, my comment to our Members into the close (3:58) was:

Indexes curling over, Good time to short /ES at 2,590 (tight stops above).  Lined up with 23,500, 6,340 and 1,480.