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

TSE Tokyo Price Index TOPIX / Technical Analysis

The area around Topix1,680 was viewed as critical after February's drop, and has given way today. At least a 50-62% retracement of the advance off the mid-2016 low is probably in progress, signalling a drop to the 1,450-1,550 zone. One viable wave count would see Topix back below 1,200, retracing the entire move. The broad range of divergence warnings visible in recent months has given way to merely neutral/mildly oversold readings, but there is nothing to suggest that a lasting low is imminent.…

The area around Topix1,680 was viewed as critical after February's drop, and has given way today. At least a 50-62% retracement of the advance off the mid-2016 low is probably in progress, signalling a drop to the 1,450-1,550 zone. One viable wave count would see Topix back below 1,200, retracing the entire move. The broad range of divergence warnings visible in recent months has given way to merely neutral/mildly oversold readings, but there is nothing to suggest that a lasting low is imminent.…

Topix: The Break of 1,680 Signals a Larger Downtrend in Progress