the counterintuitive trend tells me the market is in trouble

those watching sto will have noted some weird moves recently with oil price rising when USD did - and falling when USD fell.

this is also showing up in other commodities - but not gold - which is its own little special thing.

at the same time, broader equity markets have started to rise when they expect rates to go up, and fall when rates then stayed unchanged - also counter the normal trend of past 5 years

historically these are big danger signs - when all the 'established' market mechanics start changing.

be very careful as this means HFT algorithms can play lots of shenanigans with individual, highly liquid stocks like STO

and usually it has also meant a big fall before its over