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Visualizing sector performance

Post author:AdamHGrimes
Post published:06/03/2019
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As I continue to share some of the tools I use, I want to look at sectors and sector performance today. I don't think there's much value in looking at…

Tracking sector flows

Post author:AdamHGrimes
Post published:01/15/2019
Post category:Fundamental analysis Institutional Managers/Traders Relative Strength Spreads
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Understanding stock markets can be difficult. Which index should we look at? There are many ways to slice stocks: by market cap, by proprietary index methodology, by geography, by valuation,…

Video blog: What’s happening with the yield curve and why do we care?

Post author:AdamHGrimes
Post published:03/21/2018
Post category:Institutional Managers/Traders Market Math Spreads
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Here's a look at history and the stats behind the fluctuations in the US Treasury Yield Curve. https://youtu.be/iagtes45ek0

Using spread charts

Post author:AdamHGrimes
Post published:01/29/2015
Post category:Market Math Spreads
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This is another post in the small series on tracking, understanding, and trading relative performance. In previous posts, we looked at two ways to track relative performance as a percent…

Multi-asset relative strength comparisons

Post author:AdamHGrimes
Post published:01/28/2015
Post category:General Comments Market Math Spreads
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My previous post looked at the concept of comparing relative strength of two assets by comparing returns from a specific point in time. In that post, I suggested using a…

Showing relative performance: simple charts

Post author:AdamHGrimes
Post published:01/21/2015
Post category:Market Math Spreads
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Yesterday, I discussed some reasons why traders might want to consider looking at, or trading, the relative performance between markets. Today, let's look at a simple way to display that…

Four reasons to trade spreads

Post author:AdamHGrimes
Post published:01/20/2015
Post category:Spreads
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Today I begin a short series of posts looking at the tools and techniques of relative value trading. For some traders, this is intuitive; currencies are always valued relative to…