From the desk of Steve Strazza @sstrazza

At the beginning of each week, we publish performance tables for a variety of different asset classes and categories along with commentary on each.

Looking at the past helps put the future into context. In this post, we review the absolute and relative trends at play and preview some of the things we’re watching to profit in the weeks and months ahead.

Rotation into value is dominating the narrative right now as money continues to pour out of the former leaders and into long-term secular laggards like Financials and Energy.

In line with this trend, we continue to focus less on US Large-Caps and Growth, and instead look for opportunities in SMIDs, Cyclicals, and International stocks.

Overall, the global equity market remains healthy, supported by strong breadth and rotation. Meanwhile, defensive assets like Gold and Bonds continue to underperform.

We've really been hitting on these themes a lot recently. Here's a quick recap of what we're seeing out there:

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So here's the question, with the inevitable mean reversion for growth and tech, will you take that opportunity to lighten up on any growth & tech you have left to buy more value?

Or will you double down on the growth and ignore value stocks?

From the desk of Willie Delwiche.

Key Takeaway: Crowded trades have come back to earth, but average stock and cyclical industry groups are making new highs. Economic momentum is building as recovery accelerates. Bond yields are still rising and long-awaited leadership rotation remains underway.

The leadership rotation continues in earnest. From a sector perspective, Technology dropped four spots last week and is on the cusp of falling out of the leadership group for the first time since 2019. Consumer Discretionary dropped another two spots and except for Utilities, would be in the last place in the rankings. Gaining strength this week are Communication Services and Materials. Beyond all the improving and deteriorating conditions seen at the industry group level across market cap levels, our rankings show a consistent theme: 8 of the top 10 groups (and none of the bottom 10) are small-caps and 8 of the bottom 10 groups (and none of the top 10) are large-caps.

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Dividend aristocrats are easily some of the most desirable investments on Wall Street. These are the names that have increased dividends for at least 25 years, providing steadily increasing income to longer-term minded shareholders.

As you can imagine, the companies making up this prestigious list are some of the most recognizable brands in the world. Coca-Cola, Walmart, and Johnson & Johnson are just a few of the household names making the cut.

Here at All Star Charts, we like to stay ahead of the curve. That’s why we’re turning our attention to the future aristocrats. In an effort to seek out the next generation of the cream-of-the-crop dividend plays, we’re curating a list of stocks that have raised their payouts every year for 5-9 years.

Introducing the Young Aristocrats. We like to say these are “stocks that pay you to make money”. Imagine if years of consistent dividend growth and high momentum & relative strength had a baby, leaving you with the best of the emerging dividend giants that are outperforming the averages.

By adding our technical analysis to the mix...

Bitcoin is a market that we are very fond of here at Allstarcharts. You've heard me say it plenty: it's a beautiful case study for Technical Analysis.

It's not a company. There are no fundamentals.

And you guys have watched us analyze the behavior of Bitcoin and other Crypto Currencies since early 2016.

It's been pretty amazing to watch and participate in a new market like this. They were telling us we were late to the party back then. They're still saying the same thing now.

My bet is crypto is here to stay. So who better to have a conversation with than Greg King, Founder & CEO of OSPREY Funds, the newest vehicle to give investors access to this market.

This is probably one of the...

The latest Under the Hood Report is out, and as always, there are a number of good trade candidates. But the one that most caught my attention is a name that typically isn't on the radar of momentum buyers. When it's threatening new all time highs, we have to consider participating.

We are in the midst of a bull-run and the events over the last ten days or so have sprung up some doubts over the current move with regards to the repercussions of the rise in bond yield and the US dollar.

We included the US Dollar(DXY) chart in the Three Charts for the Week ahead post since DXY moved past its resistance in the week gone by. Let's take a look at how this had panned out in the past and what are the signals that we can identify in the present.

The chart below tracks DXY and Nifty 50 over the past 20 years. Note that we are looking at the subsequent move in Nifty 50, following the bottoming out of DXY. The dashed lines mark the reversals in DXY, which is what we're tracking here. Of the seven instances where we've seen the bottoming out of DXY, Nifty 50 has continued to rally on four such occasions.

On three occasions the negative correlation plays out as can be seen in the years 2000, 2008 & 2015.

Click on chart to enlarge view.

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From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza.

Welcome back to our “latest Under The Hood” column for the week ending March 5, 2021. As a reminder, this column will be published bi-weekly moving forward, and rotated on-and-off with our new Minor Leaguers column.

In this column, we analyze the most popular stocks during the week and find opportunities to either join in and ride these momentum names higher, or fade the crowd and bet against them.

We use a variety of sources to generate the list of most popular names. There are so many new data sources available that all we need to do is organize and curate them in a way that shows us exactly what we want: A list of stocks that are seeing an unusual increase in investor interest.

Whether we’re measuring increasing interest based on large institutional purchases, unusual options activity, or simply our proprietary lists of trending tickers… there is a lot of overlap.

The bottom line is there are a million ways to skin this cat. Relying on our entire arsenal of data makes us...

From the desk of Steve Strazza 

Don't miss this weeks Momentum Report; our weekly summation of all the major indexes at a Macro, International, Sector and Industry Group level. As a reminder, we analyze this shorter-term data within the context of the structural trends at play.

The Canadian economy is dominated by Financials and has a diverse and abundant exposure to natural resources. Despite the close proximity, the composition of the country's stock market couldn't be more different from that of the US.

They have a much higher relative exposure to areas like Financials, Energy, and Materials... Basically, all the things that are working.

On the other hand, they have significantly lower exposure to areas like Technology, Health Care, and Discretionary... Basically, all the areas that are NOT currently working.

Long story short, considering the current backdrop of global economic growth and reflation, rising rates and commodity prices, and rotation into cyclical areas and...

This week we're looking at a long setup in the Industrial Manufacturing sector.

We retired our "Five Bull Market Barometers" in mid-July to make room for a new weekly post that's focused on the three most important charts for the week ahead.

This is that post, so let's jump into this week's edition.