RAOUL PAL: The Dollar Is Surging, But The Real 'Shocking' Move Could Come Within Months
He warned us that it was on the verge surging in what would be "the biggest technical break in the history of fiat currencies."
Since that call, the US dollar has been on a tear, and it's surging today following the surprisingly strong US jobs report.
Pal, the founder of Real Vision Television and author of the Global Macro Investor newsletter, told Business Insider on Thursday that he thinks the "real move" for the US dollar hasn't happened yet.
"I think the most likely outcome is for a pause in the dollar rally soon," Pal said in an email. "That pause is the pause that refreshes, blows out a lot of the over-positioning before the real move starts."
He expects that the move will begin in the early part of next year.
"My view is that in 2015, probably in [January] or maybe [February] at the latest, the dollar is going to start its real move, which will be shocking in its velocity. It is that dollar rally that will clear break the key level in the $JPY, the Euro, the Aussie dollar, the ADXY (Asian DXY) and the RMB. I think that spills into all emerging equity markets and emerging bond markets too. Clearly this would cause the next down leg in oil and other commodities."
He continued: "The risk is for a global recession in 2015 but that is too early to give a higher probability too, although clearly most of the world is near recession or in recession anyway (thus making it very fragile to a shock)."
Pal joins DoubleLine Funds' Jeffrey Gundlach in flagging the activity in the dollar. Media has noticed too. Below is a long-term chart from Reuters' Jamie McGeever today.