Farewell FSInsight and Thank You! – A Few Parting Market Thoughts
Today, after 4 fortunate years, I am leaving Fundstrat Global Advisors to join RBC Wealth Management as their in-house technical analyst. Prior to Fundstrat, I had a 25-year career on the sell side with RBC Capital Markets so I am very excited to join the buy side of RBC where I have many long-term relationships throughout the firm. Fortunately, like you, I will also be a client of Fundstrat. Tom Lee and John Bai have built an impressive research business that is unique on the street. I am very grateful to them both for the opportunity to work with the Fundstrat team and I am looking forward to continuing our relationship while at RBC Wealth Management.
More importantly, I want to thank YOU for your support at FSInsight. I hope my weekly notes and webinars we hosted have given you some technical tools and perspective to better manage your investments. Please connect with me on Twitter @rsluymer with any feedback.
Turning to the markets, as I noted last week, I view last week’s lows to be an important line in the sand for markets and many stocks. My view has been since the beginning of the year that a pullback or pause would begin by late January/early February. However, after ‘only’ a -4.5% decline by the S&P 500 to its 50-day moving average and a -5.46% decline by the Russell 2000, equity markets have been rebounding all week. Tom Lee, as usual, made an excellent call early in the week noting that the surge in the VIX, followed by a historic 3-day decline, effectively ended the correction. Most stocks have rebounded nicely keeping their uptrends intact as defined by rising 50-day moving averages. In fact, with the Russell 2000 making new price and relative performance highs, many clients are understandably questioning my expectation for markets to remain choppy through Q1. Without a doubt there are many areas that are showing strong price and relative performance trends. I am not a big fan of technical clichés, but these trends are your friend, and investors should stay long strongly trending groups and stocks.
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