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Chart based progressive global trading strategies, Chart Partners

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

<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/s-p-500" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22886:1">S&amp;P 500 (SPX INDEX)</a> shows clear pivot pattern pivot support that aligns with MACD support to define a bull/bear line in late October.Core sectors continue to underperform, underscoring the SPX bear positioning to re test the summer lows. Lead macro signals stand out in pivot levels for transports, Russell and XLF that must hold in order to see a Q4 liquidity driven SPX rise and our base case.Lead sector support breaks would telegraph a bear break of SPX 2,800. Russell 1,450 and transport 9,700 will act as key bull inflection points.Base case trade hinges on bullish triangle support holding near term weakness for a long entry point with a tight risk and reverse level. Bull triangle resolution would induce new highs into early 2020 (then bigger fireworks).Seasonality if favorable after October 12.

S&amp;P 500 (SPX INDEX) shows clear pivot pattern pivot support that aligns with MACD support to define a bull/bear line in late October.Core sectors continue to underperform, underscoring the SPX bear positioning to re test the summer lows. Lead macro signals stand out in pivot levels for transports, Russell and XLF that must hold in order to see a Q4 liquidity driven SPX rise and our base case.Lead sector support breaks would telegraph a bear break of SPX 2,800. Russell 1,450 and transport 9,700 will act as key bull inflection points.Base case trade hinges on bullish triangle support holding near term weakness for a long entry point with a tight risk and reverse level. Bull triangle resolution would induce new highs into early 2020 (then bigger fireworks).Seasonality if favorable after October 12.

SPX Bull Triangle 2,840 Long Support - Sector Lead Signals

S&P 500 INDEX

SPX Bull Triangle 2,840 Long Support - Sector Lead Signals