$TNX.X – 10-Year Note Rate (Last:4 .317%)

Ten-Year yields have been pounding on a ‘hidden’ support at 4.430% for more than two weeks, presumably getting ready for a drop to exactly 4.242%. A tradable rally from that Hidden Pivot support looks like an 80% bet, but if it eventually gives way, look for a further fall to 3.959% or even 3.675%.  By all means, jot these numbers down if you care about where long-term interest rates are headed, since charts can predict them far more accurately than the dartboard guesses you’ll get from Bloomberg’s talking heads, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, the punditry, Fox Business News, MSNBC et al. ______ UPDATE (Mar 1): Rates have slipped beneath my initial target at 4.242%, closing last week at 4.231% off a 4.214% low. This implies that the downtrend is taking hold and could accelerate to fulfill the second target at 3.959%. It has also made achieving that target more likely.  ______ UPDATE (Mar 7, 6:31 p.m.): Yields on the 10-Year Note took a strong bounce last week, but it wasn’t sufficient to power through the gap created by Feb 25’s downdraft. This will add to the downward weight of the chart, but I’d like to see a two-day close beneath the red line before I infer that more slippage to 3.959 has begun.