In this weekly note, we highlight 10 of the most important charts or themes we're currently seeing in asset classes around the world.
Stocks Fail at Key Level
A wide variety of risk assets have suffered significant corrective action dating back to last year. As such, we’ve gotten used to looking for logical areas of potential support, or levels where we could expect demand to enter the market.
No levels have provided a better guideline than the prior-cycle highs from 2018. And when it comes to the stock market, no index provides us with a more comprehensive view of the price action than the Value Line Geometric (VLG), shown below. The Value Line is composed of roughly 1,700 components and is designed to measure how the average - or more specifically, the median stock is performing.
As you can see, the median stock is currently rolling over after a successful retest of its 2018 highs. As long as the Value Line is below 595, stocks are likely to remain under pressure.
