Chart Of The Week: Investors Capitulate On The Reflation Trade
Around this time last year as we left 2017 and entered into 2018, there was widespread optimism. Whether it was the record low volatility...
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Callum Thomas
Oct 31, 20182 min read
Global Institutional Investors Sell Stocks
The October reading of the investor confidence index from State Street dropped -3.4pts to 84.4 - the lowest reading since late 2012. ...
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Callum Thomas
Oct 29, 20181 min read
Chart Of The Week: U.S. Economic Optimism Running Hot
With markets breaking down around the world, it seems it's all gone wrong and all news is bad news. But I thought I would highlight one...
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Callum Thomas
Oct 8, 20181 min read
Extremes in Bond Market Sentiment
3 Quickfire charts on US bond market sentiment... some of these sentiment charts are clearly at an extreme - and that's usually when you...
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Callum Thomas
Sep 28, 20182 min read
Chart: Leveraged ETFs and Portfolio Cash Allocations - Investors go "All-In"
When I first shared this chart I thought it was kind of interesting to see leveraged long ETF assets surge in the lead up to the market...
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Callum Thomas
Sep 26, 20182 min read
Chart: Global Institutional Investor Confidence Slumps
This is an interesting, if obscure, indicator (at least not many people talk about it)... particularly so with the latest results. The...
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Callum Thomas
Sep 20, 20181 min read
Chart: S&P500 Bulls vs Bears - The Long Term View
This is one of my old favorite charts. It looks at the combined, smoothed longer-term trend in investor sentiment from the AAII survey...
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Callum Thomas
Sep 16, 20181 min read
Chart: S&P500 vs Fund Flows - Divergence
A curious divergence has opened up between the level of the S&P500 and the cumulative level of fund flows into US equity funds (mutual...
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Topdown Charts
Sep 14, 20182 min read
Weekly Macro Themes - 14 Sep 2018
Here's a brief preview of the topics and charts covered in the latest edition of the Weekly Macro Themes report. To read more and see the...
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Callum Thomas
Sep 12, 20182 min read
3 Charts on EM vs DM Equity Allocations
Emerging markets have taken a beating this year on the back of softer China growth, the trade wars, a stronger USD, and Fed tightening......
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Callum Thomas
Sep 11, 20181 min read
Chart Of The Week: Gold Positioning - Back To Bearish
Gold has taken a beating in the last couple of months, and predictably traders have jumped on the bandwagon - pushing net futures...
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Callum Thomas
Aug 20, 20181 min read
Chart: Coffee - Time to go Long Black?
Coffee prices have bean steadily grinding down, but as coffee plunges one can't help but wonder if it might start perking up again. ...
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Callum Thomas
Aug 20, 20181 min read
Chart: Fundamental vs Technical Sentiment
Aside from the weekly S&P500 #ChartStorm, a regular practice of mine is to survey my followers on Twitter to ask them whether they are...
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Callum Thomas
Aug 18, 20181 min read
Chart: S&P500 Long Term Earnings Growth Outlook
This is quite the chart - it shows the consensus estimates of the longer term earnings growth outlook for the S&P500, and it's the...
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Topdown Charts
Aug 17, 20182 min read
Weekly Macro Themes - 17 Aug 2018
Here's a brief preview of the topics and charts covered in the latest edition of the Weekly Macro Themes report. To read more and see the...
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Topdown Charts
Aug 14, 20181 min read
VIDEO: Top 5 Charts of the Week
In this video we run through the free weekly email newsletter "The Top 5 Charts of the Week" and add a bit of extra comments and context....
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Callum Thomas
Aug 11, 20186 min read
Weekly S&P 500 #ChartStorm - 12 Aug 2018
Those that follow my personal account on Twitter will be familiar with my weekly S&P 500 #ChartStorm in which I pick out 10 charts on the...
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Topdown Charts
Aug 8, 20181 min read
VIDEO: Top 5 Charts of the Week
In this video we run through the free weekly email newsletter "The Top 5 Charts of the Week" and add a bit of extra comments and context....
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Callum Thomas
Aug 7, 20181 min read
Chart: Extreme Positioning in Stocks vs Bonds
As I was updating my various charts and models, something weird caught my eye. This peculiar chart shows speculative futures positioning...
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Callum Thomas
Aug 5, 20181 min read
Chart: Fundamental Sentiment Reset
This chart comes from the weekly survey I run on Twitter, which asks respondents whether they are bullish or bearish on equities and...
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