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April 1, 2016 | Posted by David Zarling, Head of Investment Research

Red Dragon Awakes: Chinese Equities On The Move

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It’s no secret that Emerging Markets have been outperforming U.S. Equities since mid-January. We get it, the financial media loves to look at U.S. equities. That’s their problem. We aren’t myopic. Instead, we like to look globally across all asset classes to find opportunities. Why would we ever want to limit ourselves? There is so much opportunity outside the U.S., it would be negligent to ignore it. That brings us to today’s research release regarding Chinese equities.

Chinese equities have been hit hard for the past 11 months, dropping 45% during that time frame. Recently, however, the trend has changed. Buyers have stepped into the market, creating demand for Chinese stocks and moving prices off of their mid-February lows. Using FXI, an ETF that seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of large cap Chinese equities that trade on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, we can take see the change in demand and take advantage of this potential opportunity.

Here’s a daily chart of FXI going back two years:

China FXI Daily Chart

We can easily see the dramatic depreciation over the past year. We can also see that price and momentum (14-period RSI) diverged for over a month. We like that. Subsequently, buyers created enough demand to cause price to breakout of the year-long downtrend. This, combined with the aforementioned momentum divergence, is a great set-up for a well-defined risk/reward trade. After all, investing is not just about buying blindly and hoping for the best. Rather, our job as market participants is to minimize risk while investing in high reward scenarios. FXI fits our asymmetric risk/reward profile.

We think FXI is worth owning above 32.70. Below that, and we’re no longer interested. We’re not gamblers. We’re investors. We’re decision makers. After all, if we wanted to gamble, we’d head over to Macau.

Filed Under: China, Emerging Markets, Equity, International, Risk Management, Techniques & Tactics, Trend Analysis Tagged With: $FXI, $GXI, $MCHI, $YANG, $YINN

January 8, 2015 | Posted by David Zarling, Head of Investment Research

Relative Rotation Shows US Equities Leading | Opportunities Possible in Europe and China

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We live in the golden age of investing. Never before have individual investors had so much available to them for gaining investment knowledge, finding great investment opportunities, and the ability to take advantage of them at such a low cost. Our parents could only dream of having investment communities like seekingalph.com, investment blogs like [shameless plug alert] opportunityidentified.com, almost limitless fundamental information online, and technical analysis tools like stockcharts.com only one click of a mouse (“what’s that?” says your grandpa) away. And with the advent of ETFs, common investors can invest in pretty much whatever and wherever they want. Want to buy timber? Go for it. There’s an ETF for that (WOOD). How about palladium? Got you covered (PALL). Want to invest in foreign markets like South Korea? Be my guest (EWY). Do you really like coffee? Try JO. With sugar? Sure! (SGG). Investors today have the investment world at their fingertips.

At 360 Investment Research, we like to take advantage of another amazing tool available to all who want to use it: Relative Rotation Graphs (RRG) Charts™ [1]. These charts show you a security’s relative strength and momentum relative to a collection of other securities. Developed by Julius de Kempenaer of RRG Research, RRGs help us identify where we should be invested, or be looking to invest, within a universe of investments. Decisions should not be based solely on RRG analysis, but these charts definitely help us focus on those areas of the investment universe that deserve it. They give us the big picture within one picture. We appreciate their usefulness and you should too.

In this week’s RRG™ analysis, we’re going to look at the relative strength of the world’s largest markets, using the total world ETF from Vanguard (VT) as our benchmark. Basically, we want to see where in the world we should be focusing our attention. Accordingly, the following ETFs representing most of the world’s largest stock markets will be compared against VT:

  • SPY (S&P 500)
  • VTI (U.S. Total Market)
  • EWC (Canada)
  • EWQ (France)
  • EWG (Germancy)
  • EWI (Italy)
  • EWP (Spain)
  • FEZ (Europe)
  • PIN (India)
  • GXC (China)
  • MCHI (China)
  • EWY (South Korea)
  • EWH (Hong Kong)
  • EWJ (Japan)
  • EWA (Australia)
  • RSX (Russia)

Generally speaking, when looking at the ETFs above in the RRG™ below, those in the green leading quadrant are what you want to own; those within the yellow weakening quadrant should be on your watch-list (as they might be deteriorating), those within the red lagging quadrant should be avoided and those in the blue improving quadrant should be on your shopping list.

In the RRG™ below, the long tails represent the movement of each country’s ETF over the past 10 weeks in comparison to the world ETF, VT. So what do we see? The first thing to notice is the chart of VT in the upper right corner. Global stocks as a whole are down since July. Accordingly, when we analyze this chart, we want to be cognizant of the fact that maybe stocks as a whole are not where we want to be. That being said, if we are looking for stock opportunities, we see that we should be in the US (SPY and VTI have been leading the last 10 weeks) and looking for potential opportunities in Germany (EWG), France (EWQ), and Europe (FEZ) as they have moved from lagging to improving over the past 10 weeks. And finally, we should also look to China (GXC and MCHI) as they are subtly rotating from weakness towards leading.

In conclusion, if we have to be in stocks, we should be in the United States and looking for potential opportunities in Germany, France, Europe, and China.

[1]  Note: The terms “Relative Rotation Graph” and “RRG” are registered trademarks of RRG Research.

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RRG Analysis of Global Stocks

Filed Under: China, Emerging Markets, Equity, Europe, International, Market Outlook, Other, Relative Strength Analysis, Rotational Regression Graphs, Techniques & Tactics Tagged With: $EWA, $EWC, $EWG, $EWH, $EWI, $EWJ, $EWP, $EWQ, $EWY, $FEZ, $GXC, $MCHI, $PIN, $VT, $VTI, Australia, Canada, China, ETF, ETFs, Europe, France, Germany, Global Stocks, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Julius de Kempenaer, Relative Rotation Graph, RRG, RRG Research, RSX, Russia, S&P 500, South Korea, Spain, SPY, U.S. Total Market

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