Macro Commodities

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Macro Commodities

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Data as-of 2026-07-10 close (QUAL is one session behind, dated 2026-07-09 — flagged below). Numbers read directly from macro-commodities — no prose math. Prior scan: 2026-07-07-macro-commodities (2026-07-07).


The dollar-rollover story from the prior scan has reversed. UUP re-firmed to RSI 61.6 (up from 58.9, now just 0.6% off its 52-week high) and nearly everything that had caught a bid on dollar weakness is fading again: gold (RSI 45.4→42.9), silver (RSI 41.7→38.9), and the miners (GDX/SIL both back into collapse regime). This is the one week where a fresh Iran/Hormuz-strait escalation was on the tape, and gold and silver still went down, not up — the metals are not pricing this as a safe-haven event; the stronger dollar is the more direct read. Crude, by contrast, is the one place the tape does line up with a supply-risk story: USO RSI climbed from 30.5 to 40.1 and its 30-day drawdown narrowed from -22.8% to -15.6%, even as natural gas (UNG) fell the other way, down -9.1% on the week. Housing and international equities, last scan's strength story, both cooled off their highs.

Quick Snapshot

Signal Reading
Overall 🟡 Dollar re-firming — safe-haven metals rolling back over even with a fresh geopolitical shock on the tape; energy the one asset actually catching a bid
Key insight UUP RSI 58.9→61.6, now near its 52-week high — the metals bounce from the prior scan has fully round-tripped
Standout divergence USO up (+3.8% 7D, RSI 30.5→40.1) while GLD/SLV are both down on the week — oil reading the crisis as a supply story, not gold reading it as a haven story
Still cooling XHB/ITB and most international names gave back a chunk of their prior-scan gains as the dollar firmed

Energy

Stock Price RSI 7D 30D vs SMA20 Trend 52wkHi
USO $108.70 40.1 +3.8% -15.6% -2.5% weak-down -29.5%
UNG $10.60 36.2 -9.1% -5.0% -8.0% strong-down -37.8%

USO is the one name in this whole scan whose tape reads consistently with the Iran/Hormuz escalation: RSI up 10 points, drawdown narrowing meaningfully, still oversold and still golden-cross. UNG moved the opposite direction (-9.1% 7D, now in a confirmed downtrend) — natural gas has no Middle-East supply-route exposure the way crude does, so this divergence within "energy" is a useful tell that the oil move is event-specific, not a broad commodity re-rate.

Precious Metals

Stock Price RSI 7D 30D vs SMA20 Trend 52wkHi
GLD $377.01 42.9 -0.7% -2.4% -0.6% strong-down -26.0%
SLV $53.95 38.9 -3.2% -11.3% -4.3% down -50.9%
GDX $75.53 42.4 -3.4% -2.8% -3.6% strong-down -35.5%
SIL $76.35 42.0 -3.9% -3.3% -4.2% strong-down -36.0%

This is the notable reversal of the scan. The prior scan's headline — gold and silver catching a bid as the dollar rolled over — has fully unwound: all four names lost 3-10 points of RSI this week and both miner ETFs are back in collapse regime. Worth saying plainly for readers tracking the Hormuz story: precious metals are not confirming a crisis premium right now. The stronger dollar is doing more to move this group than the geopolitical headline.

Industrial & Agriculture

Stock Price RSI 7D 30D vs SMA20 Trend 52wkHi
COPX $76.54 44.5 -1.5% -7.7% -3.9% weak-down -23.5%
DBA $27.77 65.7 +1.5% +5.6% +3.3% strong-up -3.7%
WEAT $23.72 61.2 +4.1% +5.8% +4.8% strong-up -7.3%
CORN $17.48 54.7 +0.5% +4.6% +3.0% strong-down -8.6%
SOYB $25.17 61.0 -0.3% +4.4% +2.6% strong-up -1.2%

Copper (COPX) is the one laggard here, cooling further with 30D drawdown deepening to -7.7%. The grain complex is the strongest pocket in the whole scan: wheat's RSI jumped from 52.5 to 61.2 this week, and DBA/SOYB are both sitting within a few points of their 52-week highs. CORN is a flagged oddity to read carefully — 7D/30D are both positive but the underlying trend tag is still strong-down with a confirmed death-cross, i.e. this reads as a bounce inside a longer downtrend, not a reversal yet.

Uranium

Stock Price RSI 7D 30D vs SMA20 Trend 52wkHi
URA $42.97 40.7 -2.7% -4.2% -3.7% strong-down -31.0%

No change from the prior scan's read — still stuck in a collapse regime with no floor signal.

Currencies

Stock Price RSI 7D 30D vs SMA20 Trend 52wkHi
UUP $28.39 61.6 0.0% +1.6% +0.3% strong-up -0.6%
FXE $105.30 40.8 0.0% -1.4% -0.3% strong-down -5.6%
FXY $56.74 44.9 +0.4% -1.2% -0.1% strong-down -10.3%

The dollar is the pivot again — RSI up another 3 points to 61.6 and now within striking distance of a 52-week high. This is the single variable driving the reversal in gold/silver/international this week.

Housing

Stock Price RSI 7D 30D vs SMA20 Trend 52wkHi
XHB $108.61 49.4 -2.1% +0.9% -1.9% up -11.8%
ITB $97.76 48.7 -2.8% +0.2% -2.1% weak-up -17.2%

Both names kept cooling from the prior scan's near-overbought reading — 30D gains have collapsed from +7.9%/+9.6% to essentially flat (+0.9%/+0.2%). This looks like digestion turning into a real pullback, not just a pause.

International

Stock Price RSI 7D 30D vs SMA20 Trend 52wkHi
VGK $88.57 53.2 -1.1% +0.4% +0.3% strong-up -2.4%
EWG $41.49 49.5 -2.4% +0.1% +0.1% weak-down -7.1%
EWZ $35.93 59.7 +4.2% +4.2% +4.2% strong-up -14.5%
INDA $49.30 52.8 -0.7% +3.2% +0.1% weak-up -11.2%
EWJ $94.55 55.9 -0.6% +3.1% +1.0% strong-up -3.1%
FXI $33.48 50.5 +3.5% -3.4% +1.4% strong-down -20.3%
EEM $66.90 49.5 -1.0% -0.4% -1.2% strong-up -6.5%

Europe and Japan both cooled from the prior scan's strong-up breakouts (VGK RSI 61.6→53.2, EWJ 60.2→55.9). Brazil (EWZ) is the standout — RSI 51.3→59.7 with the week's best 7D print in the group. China's recovery (FXI) is still intact and even accelerated on the week (+3.5% 7D) even though the 30D figure is still negative, continuing the biggest single reversal flagged in the prior scan.

Factor Rotation

Stock Price RSI 7D 30D vs SMA20 Trend 52wkHi
VUG $87.40 57.2 +1.0% +2.8% +2.1% strong-up -3.5%
VTV $219.20 61.7 0.0% +2.4% +0.8% strong-up -1.3%
MTUM $321.77 50.4 -1.3% +1.0% -1.8% strong-up -6.9%
QUAL *(data 07-09)* $218.50 59.3 -0.9% +3.1% +1.0% strong-up -0.8%
RSP $214.30 61.0 -0.1% +2.6% +1.2% breakout -1.0%

Growth (VUG, RSI 57.2) and value (VTV, RSI 61.7) narrowed further from last scan's split, which was already closing. This continues to look like broad-based cooling from stretched levels rather than a hard style rotation.


What the Commodities Are Telling Us

This tape doesn't fit a clean inflationary/deflationary/stagflationary label. Oil is up on what reads like a supply-risk premium (consistent with the Hormuz-strait escalation this week), and the grain complex is accelerating — both inflation-flavored inputs. But the classic inflation-hedge trade, gold, is doing the opposite: it's down on the week as the dollar re-firms. Growth-sensitive pockets — housing, most of international equities — are cooling from extended levels rather than breaking down outright. Read together, this looks like a dollar-driven mixed tape, not a regime call: a genuine energy-specific supply premium sitting on top of broad, unrelated cooling in rate- and dollar-sensitive assets.

Cross-Asset Signals

  • UUP re-firming (RSI 58.9→61.6, near its 52-week high) is the connective thread — it's what's dragging gold, silver, and most international names back down, mirroring last scan's dollar-rollover story in reverse.
  • Oil and gold moved in opposite directions this week despite the same geopolitical headline — worth tracking whether gold ever confirms a haven bid, or whether this stays an energy-only story.
  • FXI and EWZ are the two names still accelerating against the broader cooling trend — both worth a fresh look given the divergence from the rest of the international book.

What Changed Since Prior Scan (2026-07-07)

Category Then Now Signal
UUP (dollar) RSI 58.9, cooling off RSI 61.6, near 52wk high Dollar re-firmed — reverses the prior scan's "rollover" thesis
GLD RSI 45.4, +2.4% 7D RSI 42.9, -0.7% 7D Gold fading again, no haven bid despite this week's Iran/Hormuz escalation
SLV RSI 41.7, +4.7% 7D RSI 38.9, -3.2% 7D Same reversal as gold
USO RSI 30.5, -22.8% 30D RSI 40.1, -15.6% 30D Oil catching a bid — the one asset reading consistently with the supply-risk headline
UNG RSI 52.9, +3.0% 30D RSI 36.2, -9.1% 7D Natural gas cratered the opposite direction — energy is diverging internally
WEAT RSI 52.5 RSI 61.2 Wheat is the accelerating story in ag
XHB/ITB 30D +7.9%/+9.6% 30D +0.9%/+0.2% Housing breakout has essentially stalled
FXI RSI 38.8, -5.6% 30D RSI 50.5, +3.5% 7D China recovery continuing, not fading
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