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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...
Callum Thomas
Dec 4, 20181 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. ...
Callum Thomas
Nov 1, 20182 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...
Callum Thomas
Oct 30, 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...
Callum Thomas
Oct 9, 20181 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...
Callum Thomas
Sep 29, 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...
Callum Thomas
Sep 27, 20182 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...
Callum Thomas
Sep 21, 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...
Callum Thomas
Sep 16, 20181 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...
Topdown Charts
Sep 14, 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......
Callum Thomas
Sep 13, 20182 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...
Callum Thomas
Sep 12, 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. ...
Callum Thomas
Aug 21, 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...
Callum Thomas
Aug 20, 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...
Callum Thomas
Aug 18, 20181 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...
Topdown Charts
Aug 18, 20182 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....
Topdown Charts
Aug 15, 20181 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...
Callum Thomas
Aug 12, 20186 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....
Topdown Charts
Aug 8, 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...
Callum Thomas
Aug 7, 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...
Callum Thomas
Aug 6, 20181 min read
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