Crude: 1980-1990…2008-2018
Recall this mid-May post on the relationship b/t crude and gold. Therein, I also spoke about crude on its own, as follows: “What’s also interesting about crude since 2008 is how closely its cycle resembles the period from 1980-summer-1987.” I presented…...
Relative Industry & Associated Constituent Set-Ups
In the context of “needing” equity exposure, I present below a handful of relative industry set-ups that I find technically interesting. To reiterate, these are relative, not absolute industry out-performance ideas. In the event of major equity downside, consider them…
Recent Relative Performance of Consumer Staples Among Worst in History
Below I plot the 2-yr RoC in the ratio of SPX Consumer Staples vs. the SPX itself dating back to the 1920s. The current –29% is essentially the second-worst print in history, tied with the 1929-1930 period preceding and in…...
Additional Evidence Suggesting a Historic Top in Place for Defense Stocks
In March I began making the case that defense stocks were in the process of putting an important top in place, which you can read about here. However, at that time I don’t think I fully appreciated the exact nature…...
Multi-Year Cyclical Peak for EM Equities Likely in Place
Before we dig into this post’s declarative title, let’s revisit the genesis EM work that got us to this point today. Specifically, I mean the 1/2/17 post that proclaimed EM equities, though likely mired in an ongoing secular bear, were nonetheless about…...
Commodity Secular Bears: A Century’s Worth of Historical Perspective
It’s Apr-18. That means we’re at the 7-yr anniversary of the global commodity super-cycle peak of 2011. This offers a neat and convenient time-based milestone upon which to assess the unrelenting carnage in the group since that peak and how it…...
Oilfield Services Attractive on Numerous Relative Fronts
One could spend a few hours cycling through charts of various US equity industries, both on an absolute and relative basis vs. the SPX, and find very little to get excited about. They simply all look the same – nearly…...
Revisiting the Defense Industry as the First-Ever Audit of the DoD Commences
All the way back in this Oct-12 post I highlighted the defense industry and a few of its individual components, noting what I thought were theire overall bullish positioning vs. the broader market after a decent stretch of under-performance. Below I…...
Textbook Semi Reversal
We’ve written extensively in the past 18 months about the bullish case for owning and over-weighting semiconductor stocks. Our last semi-specific piece was from March of this year. In it, we noted that the group had experienced a major relative…...
Relativity Review
Let’s do a review of some industries and their relative positions vs. the broader market (SPX) to see if we can find any interesting set-ups. I have a personal predilection toward these types of reviews as they’re often one of…...