Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

iShares MSCI ACWI ETF / Technical Analysis

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<li>Our 2023 outlook, initially discussed in our January 6th 2023 Int'l Compass, was for $93 to cap upside on the MSCI ACWI (ACWI-US); this has again proven prescient.</li>
<li>Since late-January/early-February we have recommended shifting to defensives, and MSCI ACWI defensive Sectors including Health Care (IXJ-US), Utilities (JXI-US), and Consumer Staples (KXI-US) are now hitting 3-4-month RS highs.</li>
<li>With the ACWI-US just now starting to turn down after testing $93, we continue to recommend a tactical overweight to the aforementioned defensive Sectors, and also to gold miners (GDX-US).</li>
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Our 2023 outlook, initially discussed in our January 6th 2023 Int'l Compass, was for $93 to cap upside on the MSCI ACWI (ACWI-US); this has again proven prescient.
Since late-January/early-February we have recommended shifting to defensives, and MSCI ACWI defensive Sectors including Health Care (IXJ-US), Utilities (JXI-US), and Consumer Staples (KXI-US) are now hitting 3-4-month RS highs.
With the ACWI-US just now starting to turn down after testing $93, we continue to recommend a tactical overweight to the aforementioned defensive Sectors, and also to gold miners (GDX-US).


Stay Tactically Overweight Defensives; Remain Overweight Europe, Japan, & EAFE. Buys in Defensives

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), Axis Direct

Axis Direct

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

Axis Direct is the flagship brand under Axis Securities Limited, a subsidiary of Axis Bank in India. 

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Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<div><div><div><div><ul><li>Q4FY23 earnings season was marked by weaker macro, rising interest rates, banking challenges in the US and European markets, and moderation in discretionary demand.</li><li>On the positive side, earning season was led by the sequential margin expansion on account of moderation in commodity prices and the uptick in credit growth.</li><li>The export-oriented themes, however, are likely to laggard. </li></ul></div></div></div></div><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

Q4FY23 earnings season was marked by weaker macro, rising interest rates, banking challenges in the US and European markets, and moderation in discretionary demand.On the positive side, earning season was led by the sequential margin expansion on account of moderation in commodity prices and the uptick in credit growth.The export-oriented themes, however, are likely to laggard. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

<ul><li>Axis Alpha reported a dream monthly strike rate of 100% in Mar’23. It continued to deliver robust returns with absolute profits of over 5.53 Lc since its inception in May’20.</li><li>A few calls that met their targets successfully were KEC International (4.4% in 4 days), Indian Hotels (4%)</li><li>Our Axis Top Picks basket reported an impressive performance with a return of 149% since its inception, notably beating the 87% returns reported by the benchmark NIFTY 50 Index over the same period.</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

Axis Alpha reported a dream monthly strike rate of 100% in Mar’23. It continued to deliver robust returns with absolute profits of over 5.53 Lc since its inception in May’20.A few calls that met their targets successfully were KEC International (4.4% in 4 days), Indian Hotels (4%)Our Axis Top Picks basket reported an impressive performance with a return of 149% since its inception, notably beating the 87% returns reported by the benchmark NIFTY 50 Index over the same period.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

<ul><li>Axis Top Picks basket outperformed the benchmark by a significant margin with its impressive return of 9.7% in FY23 as against the 0.6% decline posted by NIFTY 50 over the same period.</li><li>The basket, however, reported a flattish return (-0.3%) in a highly volatile Mar’23 which witnessed a rather mixed performance across sectoral, market cap, and style indices, indicating an underlying change in the market positioning.</li><li>Nonetheless, the basket has delivered an astounding return of 149% since its inception (May'20) which stands significantly higher than the 87% returns delivered by NIFTY 50 over the same period.</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

Axis Top Picks basket outperformed the benchmark by a significant margin with its impressive return of 9.7% in FY23 as against the 0.6% decline posted by NIFTY 50 over the same period.The basket, however, reported a flattish return (-0.3%) in a highly volatile Mar’23 which witnessed a rather mixed performance across sectoral, market cap, and style indices, indicating an underlying change in the market positioning.Nonetheless, the basket has delivered an astounding return of 149% since its inception (May'20) which stands significantly higher than the 87% returns delivered by NIFTY 50 over the same period.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

MSCI Emerging Markets Index / Technical Analysis

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<li>In our February 6, 2023 EM Strategy, we discussed that we were buyers of the MSCI EM (EEM-US) on a pullback to the 50-day MA. </li>
<li>The pullback went a bit deeper but managed to hold at our $37.50 line-in-the-sand which we discussed in our recent ETF Pathfinder reports (Mar. 6 and Mar. 20, 2023).</li>
<li>The EEM-US displays a bullish 2-month downtrend reversal- add exposure. Signs continue to point to a topping DXY, and a declining DXY has historically resulted in EM outperformance (vs. EAFE).</li>
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In our February 6, 2023 EM Strategy, we discussed that we were buyers of the MSCI EM (EEM-US) on a pullback to the 50-day MA. 
The pullback went a bit deeper but managed to hold at our $37.50 line-in-the-sand which we discussed in our recent ETF Pathfinder reports (Mar. 6 and Mar. 20, 2023).
The EEM-US displays a bullish 2-month downtrend reversal- add exposure. Signs continue to point to a topping DXY, and a declining DXY has historically resulted in EM outperformance (vs. EAFE).


MSCI EM $EEM 2-Month Downtrend Reversal at Support -- Add Exposure. Upgrading Taiwan to Overweight

India

Varun Beverages Limited produces and distributes beverages. The Company offers carbonated soft drinks and non-alcoholic beverages, as well as provides packaged drinking water. Varun Beverages serves customers worldwide.

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