Cross-Asset Strategist & Quantitative Analyst, Pennock Idea Hub

Cam Hui

Cross-Asset Strategist & Quantitative Analyst

Pennock Idea Hub

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Cross-Asset & Quantitative Research

Cross Asset Strategy

Our review of market internals shows that the value and reflation trade is gaining ground. If this trend continues, it would translate into a bullish intermediate-term outlook for equities. However, investors have to be aware of the supply chain disruption risks from the Delta variant, the chances of a political impasse in Washington, and the negative effects of a possible corporate tax increase.

Our review of market internals shows that the value and reflation trade is gaining ground. If this trend continues, it would translate into a bullish intermediate-term outlook for equities. However, investors have to be aware of the supply chain disruption risks from the Delta variant, the chances of a political impasse in Washington, and the negative effects of a possible corporate tax increase.

Constructive Value and Reflation Green Shoots

It’s time for another periodic review of sector leadership. Our latest RRG chart shows growth sectors (technology, communication services) and selected defensive sectors (consumer staples, healthcare, REITs) in the top half of the chart, indicating leadership positions. Value and cyclical sectors are the laggards in the bottom half.We interpret these conditions as neither bullish nor bearish, but a story of balanced leadership. The high beta components of the S&amp;P 500, growth and value, have been undergoing an internal rotation. As the economy shifted from an early-cycle recovery to a mid-cycle expansion (see <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/how-to-navigate-the-mid-cycle-expansion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Navigate the Mid-Cycle Expansion</a>), market jitters over stalling global growth have risen. As a consequence, investors have rotated from the cyclical and reflation trade back into growth as growth stocks become more valuable when economic growth is scarce. At the same time, the stock market has also been supported by defensive sectors such as healthcare and real estate. Currently, value is showing some signs of early strength, but a turn in the value/growth relationship hasn’t been confirmed.Our base-case scenario calls for a choppy range-bound market until the cyclical and reflation trade theme retakes market leadership. If the stock market were to definitively turn upward, leadership may have to come from high-beta small-cap stocks.

It’s time for another periodic review of sector leadership. Our latest RRG chart shows growth sectors (technology, communication services) and selected defensive sectors (consumer staples, healthcare, REITs) in the top half of the chart, indicating leadership positions. Value and cyclical sectors are the laggards in the bottom half.We interpret these conditions as neither bullish nor bearish, but a story of balanced leadership. The high beta components of the S&amp;P 500, growth and value, have been undergoing an internal rotation. As the economy shifted from an early-cycle recovery to a mid-cycle expansion (see How to Navigate the Mid-Cycle Expansion), market jitters over stalling global growth have risen. As a consequence, investors have rotated from the cyclical and reflation trade back into growth as growth stocks become more valuable when economic growth is scarce. At the same time, the stock market has also been supported by defensive sectors such as healthcare and real estate. Currently, value is showing some signs of early strength, but a turn in the value/growth relationship hasn’t been confirmed.Our base-case scenario calls for a choppy range-bound market until the cyclical and reflation trade theme retakes market leadership. If the stock market were to definitively turn upward, leadership may have to come from high-beta small-cap stocks.

Sector Review: Balanced Leadership and Rotation

Despite all of the technical warnings about negative breadth, the S&amp;P 500 has been undergoing a ride along its upper Bollinger Band. While conventional technical analysis would view episodes of negative breadth divergences as bearish, there are good reasons for the bullish resilience of the S&amp;P 500.The top five sectors comprise about 75% of the weight of the index, and their relative performance determines the market’s direction. An analysis of the June relative performance of these sectors shows that three of the five — representing 43.4% of the index weight — are exhibiting positive relative strength. This is in turn putting upward pressure on the index.The stock market is also underlying an internal rotation between value and growth. Ed Clissold of Ned Davis Research wrote, “The back-and-forth leadership is the reason market breadth has been so resilient.”In the short run, count on more back-and-forth value and growth rotation that supports stock prices. History shows that the DJIA seasonal pattern in July is bullish. Enjoy.

Despite all of the technical warnings about negative breadth, the S&amp;P 500 has been undergoing a ride along its upper Bollinger Band. While conventional technical analysis would view episodes of negative breadth divergences as bearish, there are good reasons for the bullish resilience of the S&amp;P 500.The top five sectors comprise about 75% of the weight of the index, and their relative performance determines the market’s direction. An analysis of the June relative performance of these sectors shows that three of the five — representing 43.4% of the index weight — are exhibiting positive relative strength. This is in turn putting upward pressure on the index.The stock market is also underlying an internal rotation between value and growth. Ed Clissold of Ned Davis Research wrote, “The back-and-forth leadership is the reason market breadth has been so resilient.”In the short run, count on more back-and-forth value and growth rotation that supports stock prices. History shows that the DJIA seasonal pattern in July is bullish. Enjoy.

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Thomas Schroeder

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Chart Partners

Chart Partners objective is to discover medium-term cycle turns and profit opportunities before they unfold, within structural trends while preserving capital with clear degrees of risk. We have real return ideas. 

Markets are dynamic and trading systems must reflect this. It is crucial to determine underlying correlations and lead-lag relationships within global markets and the impact on linked instruments. Our weekly Chartonics product gives you short-term trading strategies that can be applied within the medium and longer term macro trends that are mapped out in our strategy updates. 

Our methodology fuses global market variables and isolates drivers in trends. We specialize in FX, index trade in NY and Asia with a focus on Asian stocks. 

Technical Analysis

Vanguard Russell 2000 Growth / Technical Analysis

US rotation long bets focused in tech and growth to pick up some of the slack and find industrials beginning to underperform. A yield fade remains a key input to fuel further upside in a growth theme. Consumer discretionary (XLY) and Russell growth ETF's (IWP and IWY) are breaking to the upside out of bull wedge formations.Bull wedge breakouts are a high conviction set up.Risk lies with the rallies struggling under recent highs as weak breadth begins to eat away at the broader market. If a yield fade fails to gain traction this will also dilute the growth breakout with odds favor a C wave rise.

US rotation long bets focused in tech and growth to pick up some of the slack and find industrials beginning to underperform. A yield fade remains a key input to fuel further upside in a growth theme. Consumer discretionary (XLY) and Russell growth ETF's (IWP and IWY) are breaking to the upside out of bull wedge formations.Bull wedge breakouts are a high conviction set up.Risk lies with the rallies struggling under recent highs as weak breadth begins to eat away at the broader market. If a yield fade fails to gain traction this will also dilute the growth breakout with odds favor a C wave rise.

Managing Director

Elan Gore

TMI Data Science

TMI Data Science utilizes Natural Language Processing to build custom leading indicators using unstructured data sourced from the global financial, trade & traditional media.  Our proprietary software, TMI Machine, is a text-mining platform designed with the buy-side & capital markets professional in mind, text-mining the global media to discern and quantify nuanced qualitative shifts in press coverage as they apply to macroeconomics, equity indexes/ETFs, commodities, currencies, fixed income & individual equities.  TMI provides custom leading indicators and systematic trading strategies, operating at the nexus of linguistics & statistics drawing on vast experience in investment banking and hedge fund settings in senior quantitative and fundamental roles.  

TMI Data Science was founded by Elan Gore, an award-winning Senior Global Basic Materials Equity Analyst & China Economist with 15 years of experience in North American hedge funds & institutional managers; and Alessandro Porrino, Ph.D., an Algorithmic Trading Analyst and Programmer with 10 years of front-office experience ranging from complex FX option pricing to auto-hedging strategies at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Standard Chartered.  Mr. Gore holds an MBA in Finance from New York University Stern School of Business, and Mr. Porrino holds a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Brunel University London.

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<li>Back in November, we text-mined for GICS sector-level sentiment shifts as the post-election cyclical rotation arrived (see <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/tmi-snapshots-quantifying-relative-sector-sentiment-in-the-recent-rotation-via-text-mining" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:45278" rel="noopener">TMI Snapshots: Quantifying Relative Sector Sentiment in the Recent Rotation Via Text Mining</a>)</li>
<li>At the time, we saw Financials sector sentiment surge along with Materials, while Industrials sentiment remained subdued; these sentiment readings have been somewhat reflected in performance, as since October 31 the S&amp;P Financials (XLF) is up +28%, S&amp;P Materials (XLB) +21%, and S&amp;P Industrials (XLI) +18%</li>
<li>All cyclical sectors are now in positive territory sentiment-wise, with Consumer Discretionary and Financials sentiment now looking quite extended at multi-STDEV readings</li>
<li>Industrials sector sentiment stood out as relatively depressed for months, but is breaking out of its range in the last 10 days</li>
<li>As we noted in our post on cyclicals sentiment last week (<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/tmi-snapshot-cyclicals-sentiment-melts-up-into-year-end-impact-concentrated-in-materials-sector" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:46660" rel="noopener">TMI Snapshot:  Cyclicals Sentiment Melts Up into Year-End, Impact Concentrated in Materials Sector),</a> the rotation theme has been particularly strongly correlated to the Materials sector (metals in particular) and there is potentially room for laggard cyclicals - namely industrials - to catch up as recent sentiment readings imply </li>
</ul><div class="content-highlight">TMI Data Science utilizes Natural Language Processing to build custom leading indicators using unstructured data sourced from the global financial, trade &amp; traditional media. Our proprietary software text-mines the global media to discern and quantify nuanced qualitative shifts in press coverage as they apply to macroeconomics, equity indexes/ETFs, commodities, currencies, fixed income &amp; individual equities. </div>


Back in November, we text-mined for GICS sector-level sentiment shifts as the post-election cyclical rotation arrived (see TMI Snapshots: Quantifying Relative Sector Sentiment in the Recent Rotation Via Text Mining)
At the time, we saw Financials sector sentiment surge along with Materials, while Industrials sentiment remained subdued; these sentiment readings have been somewhat reflected in performance, as since October 31 the S&amp;P Financials (XLF) is up +28%, S&amp;P Materials (XLB) +21%, and S&amp;P Industrials (XLI) +18%
All cyclical sectors are now in positive territory sentiment-wise, with Consumer Discretionary and Financials sentiment now looking quite extended at multi-STDEV readings
Industrials sector sentiment stood out as relatively depressed for months, but is breaking out of its range in the last 10 days
As we noted in our post on cyclicals sentiment last week (TMI Snapshot:  Cyclicals Sentiment Melts Up into Year-End, Impact Concentrated in Materials Sector), the rotation theme has been particularly strongly correlated to the Materials sector (metals in particular) and there is potentially room for laggard cyclicals - namely industrials - to catch up as recent sentiment readings imply 
TMI Data Science utilizes Natural Language Processing to build custom leading indicators using unstructured data sourced from the global financial, trade &amp; traditional media. Our proprietary software text-mines the global media to discern and quantify nuanced qualitative shifts in press coverage as they apply to macroeconomics, equity indexes/ETFs, commodities, currencies, fixed income &amp; individual equities. 

TMI Snapshot:  Revisiting Cyclical Sector Sentiment - Industrials Showing Signs of Life

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Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund is an exchange-traded fund incorporated in the USA. The ETF tracks the performance of the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector Index holding primarily large capitalization companies domiciled in the US. The ETF weights its holdings using a modified market cap approach, generally investing at least 95% of its assets in the index

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Constructive Value and Reflation Green Shoots

Our review of market internals shows that the value and reflation trade is gaining ground. If this trend continues, it would translate into a...

Cam Hui

Sector Review: Balanced Leadership and Rotation

Our base-case scenario calls for a choppy range-bound market until the cyclical and reflation trade theme retakes market leadership.

Cam Hui

The Resilient S&P 500

While conventional technical analysis would view recent episodes of negative breadth divergences as bearish, there are good reasons for the bullish...

Cam Hui

US Growth Rotation Long Bets

US rotation long bets focused in tech and growth to pick up some of the slack. Consumer discretionary (XLY) and Russell growth ETF's (IWP and IWY)...

Thomas Schroeder

TMI Snapshot: Revisiting Cyclical Sector Sentiment - Industrials Showing Signs of Life

Revisiting our cyclical sector sentiment indicators, we find a breakout in Industrials sentiment coming from a relatively low base - time for...

Elan Gore

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