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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. 

Technical Analysis

Nasdaq-100 Stock Index / Technical Analysis

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<li>The impulsive decline in growth sectors (NDX) warns of more pain in September. Sell resistance lies at 12,500/800 below the 13k risk pivot. NDX early August relative peak led.</li>
<li>SPX macro sell call on August 19 worked well with a short NDX focus (short group includes DAX, HSI, Taiwan and recently Korea).</li>
<li>August was touted as the month to sell longs establish in June/July and to raise short bets for a bearish September as pundits turned bullish in mid-August, we were selling.</li>
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The impulsive decline in growth sectors (NDX) warns of more pain in September. Sell resistance lies at 12,500/800 below the 13k risk pivot. NDX early August relative peak led.
SPX macro sell call on August 19 worked well with a short NDX focus (short group includes DAX, HSI, Taiwan and recently Korea).
August was touted as the month to sell longs establish in June/July and to raise short bets for a bearish September as pundits turned bullish in mid-August, we were selling.


Nasdaq-100 Stock Index

August Route Leads September Pain