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 relative strength trends at play and preview some of the things we're watching in order to profit in the weeks and months ahead.
Our last RPP report took a high-level look at the initial damage endured by the recent selloff.
This past week, we saw follow through on that weakness. That means we’ve got to take a deeper look at how the most important assets in the world have held up.
For the first time off the March lows, we’re starting to see a change in character in the way that the market corrects. Particularly Equity Markets, so that will be our focus this week.
I don't trade Chinese stocks often. But when I do, I most definitely define my risks up front. I don't want to be the next person to become "UnLuckin'd", if you know what I mean...
With that in mind, there's a chinese stock that showed up on our recent Under the Hood report that has caught my interest for a tactical play.
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.
Welcome to our "Under The Hood" column for the week ended September 11, 2020.
What we do is 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 the cat. Relying on our entire arsenal of data makes us confident that we're producing the best list each week and gives us more optionality in terms of finding the most favorable trade setups for our clients.
When money is coming out of one sector and going into another one, we call that sector rotation. It's a classic characteristic of a bull market, or for that matter, a market where we are generally being rewarded for owning stocks, not for selling them.
Let's go back to February. At that point, we were seeing laggards dragging the market lower. Things like Financials and Materials were making new relative lows and had already begun their declines. In fact, both of these sectors peaked in December, months before the overall market peaked. That's part of why we got so bearish.
The Top/Down approach to markets is at the core of what we do at All Star Charts. That means starting at the asset class level and peeling back each layer to refine our view of the smaller components that make up that asset class. With each new layer, we discover information that helps us form our weight of the evidence conclusion.
That brings us to our weekly column, The Top/Down Take, where we hope to educate readers on how we execute this process and highlight its value through the analysis of popular stocks.
The Fixed Income, Commodity, and Currency markets are near and dear to my heart. Ever since I began learning Technical Analysis, I've always loved analyzing things that are "off the beaten path." This included everything from Interest Rates to Soybeans to the Norwegian Krone. Equities are great and all, but this is the stuff that gets me up in the morning.
In addition to the blog posts we do on the site, I've wanted to explore new ways to share that passion with you all and show why even if you're not investing in these markets directly, they're worth paying attention to.
That brings us to my weekly show, "What The FICC?"
In this weekly video series, I'll be highlighting the most important chart or theme from these three asset classes while doing my best to tie that analysis back to Equities through an intermarket signal or a trade idea.
Thanks to everyone who participated in this week's Mystery Chart.
A lot of mixed responses from this one. Some of you were buyers at support, while others were erring in the direction of the recent downtrend and looking for a resolution to the downside.
With that as our backdrop, let's just right into it.
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This month’s Conference Call will be held onTuesday September 15th at 6PM ET. As always, if you cannot make the call live, the video and slides will be archived and published here along with every other live call since 2015.
