Managing Director, MTS Research

Peter Beuttell

Managing Director

MTS Research

MTS Research Limited is an independent investment research company specialising in technical analysis. 

MTS Research provides technical analysis services in the form of regular publications and consultancy advice, catering for a number of different investment approaches from absolute or relative returns to long-only and long/short.  The company has a global client base of blue-chip financial institutions ranging in size and stretching from Los Angeles to Tokyo, via New York, London, Frankfurt and Hong Kong.  

MTS was founded in 1989 at the request of Morgan Grenfell Investment Services Limited (MGIS), the ERISA arm of Morgan Grenfell Asset Management (subsequently Deutsche Asset Management), by Peter Beuttell, a Portfolio Manager at MGIS between 1987 and 1989. 

Peter is a qualified Chartered Accountant and self-taught market technician with over 30 years experience.  At MGIS, Peter managed money in European, Australasian and Far East markets for US clients, such as American Airlines and American Petrofina.  He achieved first quartile perfomance on their behalf by blending fundamental and technical analysis in his investment decision-making.  

After an initial focus on the EAFE markets (Europe, Australasia and Far East), the company has recently expanded its coverage to include the Americas, thanks to the recently-completed two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership with the University of Plymouth.  The resulting software – the Technical Overlay Program (TOP) – allows fund managers to access an immediate Technical view on any market, sector, stock, bond yield, currency or commodity within their selected universe.

MTS Research consists of a team of five based in Penzance and London. 

Technical Analysis

Meta Platforms (Facebook) / Technical Analysis

We were asked of Facebook during the week: Is it the first brick in the edifice to begin falling?It looks like it, given the recently-completed Head-and-Shoulders top pattern, which has a minimum measuring target at $148 (nearer $140 intra-day).  The negation level on that is $186.15, the top of the second shoulder.A drop as low as $140 would also break the 5-year uptrend.The FANG Index is also quite vulnerable, having recently tested its two-year semi-log trend resistance line. Trend and moving…

We were asked of Facebook during the week: Is it the first brick in the edifice to begin falling?It looks like it, given the recently-completed Head-and-Shoulders top pattern, which has a minimum measuring target at $148 (nearer $140 intra-day).  The negation level on that is $186.15, the top of the second shoulder.A drop as low as $140 would also break the 5-year uptrend.The FANG Index is also quite vulnerable, having recently tested its two-year semi-log trend resistance line. Trend and moving…

NASDAQ 100: Facebook Is the First Crack in the Wall, and Headed for 148 Minimum

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Thomas Schroeder

Chart based progressive global trading strategies

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. 

Dow Jones Industrial Average / Technical Analysis

We spend a good deal of time pouring over patterns in the S&amp;P and top sectors but tend to not view the Dow Jones as a primary driver but rather a counter measure confirmation signal to the S&amp;P. We now have a high conviction pattern with well defined breakout in the DJI to work with post going into and out of the FOMC. The market interpretation of the FOMC statement with shape the bias and force a breakout of the DJI pattern that has been contracting.NDX and S&amp;P charts illustrate the relative…

We spend a good deal of time pouring over patterns in the S&amp;P and top sectors but tend to not view the Dow Jones as a primary driver but rather a counter measure confirmation signal to the S&amp;P. We now have a high conviction pattern with well defined breakout in the DJI to work with post going into and out of the FOMC. The market interpretation of the FOMC statement with shape the bias and force a breakout of the DJI pattern that has been contracting.NDX and S&amp;P charts illustrate the relative…

This Index Will Make or Break the Global Cycle Post FOMC

In "A 120-year History of Extreme Momentum" I looked at when similar momentum readings to January's had occurred, particularly in relation to previous bear market lows, and speculated that we have been witnessing a buying climax, or upwards crash.Another indicator is signalling crash-like conditions, hence the headline. ADX is a measure of Trend Strength (first chart; note that it does not differentiate between up- and downtrends, only their intensity), and only twice since its inception has the…

In "A 120-year History of Extreme Momentum" I looked at when similar momentum readings to January's had occurred, particularly in relation to previous bear market lows, and speculated that we have been witnessing a buying climax, or upwards crash.Another indicator is signalling crash-like conditions, hence the headline. ADX is a measure of Trend Strength (first chart; note that it does not differentiate between up- and downtrends, only their intensity), and only twice since its inception has the…

S&P 500: Is This the 2008 Crash in Reverse?

Nasdaq-100 Stock Index / Technical Analysis

And if not, it's in "extra time", and increasingly risky to play.For the last 18 months, it has been clear that NASDAQ 100 was in a 5th wave, and the final phase of the bull market which began in 2002.  Last week it hit not only the highest of our targets, but also produced an Elliott wave count which clearly meets the minimum requirements for a bull market pattern to be complete.  Our Global Markets Review moved to TAKE SOME PROFITS in Friday's edition.That pattern completion is analogous to a…

And if not, it's in "extra time", and increasingly risky to play.For the last 18 months, it has been clear that NASDAQ 100 was in a 5th wave, and the final phase of the bull market which began in 2002.  Last week it hit not only the highest of our targets, but also produced an Elliott wave count which clearly meets the minimum requirements for a bull market pattern to be complete.  Our Global Markets Review moved to TAKE SOME PROFITS in Friday's edition.That pattern completion is analogous to a…

<div style="text-align: left;">S&amp;P Jan sequence and action points</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div>Our base case called for a strong start to January (Q4 melt up call into Q1) and then a stall cycle around mid-January (11th or the 14th ideally). Here way lay out ST upside projections and where to put on some protection and our pullback buy support targets. This sequence will shape risk in Asia as EEM pushes to key resistance at 50.50.Our NDX ST target comes in at 6,720. SOX is poised for new highs but may stall near 1,340-50 and then follow through with a…

S&amp;P Jan sequence and action points Our base case called for a strong start to January (Q4 melt up call into Q1) and then a stall cycle around mid-January (11th or the 14th ideally). Here way lay out ST upside projections and where to put on some protection and our pullback buy support targets. This sequence will shape risk in Asia as EEM pushes to key resistance at 50.50.Our NDX ST target comes in at 6,720. SOX is poised for new highs but may stall near 1,340-50 and then follow through with a…

United States

The NASDAQ-100 Index is a modified capitalization-weighted index of the 100 largest and most active non-financial domestic and international issues listed on the NASDAQ. No security can have more than a 24% weighting. The index was developed with a base value of 125 as of February 1, 1985. Prior to December 21,1998 the Nasdaq 100 was a cap-weighted index.

Nasdaq-100 Stock Index (NDX INDEX)

NASDAQ 100: Facebook Is the First Crack in the Wall, and Headed for 148 Minimum

We were asked of Facebook during the week: Is it the first brick in the edifice to begin falling?It looks like it, given the recently-completed...

Peter Beuttell

This Index Will Make or Break the Global Cycle Post FOMC

We spend a good deal of time pouring over patterns in the S&P and top sectors but tend to not view the Dow Jones as a primary driver but rather...

Thomas Schroeder

S&P 500: Is This the 2008 Crash in Reverse?

In "A 120-year History of Extreme Momentum" I looked at when similar momentum readings to January's had occurred, particularly in relation to...

Peter Beuttell

NASDAQ 100: Game Over?

And if not, it's in "extra time", and increasingly risky to play.For the last 18 months, it has been clear that NASDAQ 100 was in a 5th wave, and...

Peter Beuttell

S&P Jan Fade Sequence, Sell-Buy Levels

S&P Jan sequence and action points Our base case called for a strong start to January (Q4 melt up call into Q1) and then a stall cycle around...

Thomas Schroeder