Katie Stockton, CMT Fairlead Strategies, LLC Founder and Managing Partner
Rocky Mountain Economic Summit July 12, 2018
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Our Approach to Technical Analysis At Fairlead Strategies, our top-down approach emphasizes: Risk management Alpha generation Market timing …through the identification of trends and turning points from absolute and relative perspectives. Important concepts include support & resistance and relative strength, with a focus on indicators that provide an informational edge, such as the cloud model and the DeMark Indicators®
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Technical Analysis – In Practice Having a methodology is key A “good call” is not luck, it’s discipline Technicians tend to weather downdrafts with less emotion The media focuses on T.A. because it has general appeal Investors focus on T.A. because it works It’s art more than science MIT professor Andrew Lo concluded in one of his white papers that
T.A. has persisted, “perhaps because its visual mode of analysis is more conducive to human cognition, and because pattern recognition is one of the few repetitive activities for which computers do not have an absolute advantage (yet)”*
Communicating is all about visuals (charts!) and not getting too “technical” Lo, Andrew, Harry Mamaysky, and Jiang Wang. "Foundations of Technical Analysis: Computational Algorithms, Statistical Inference, and Empirical Implementation." (2000): 1706. *
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Our Technical Toolbox Support & Resistance Moving Averages Peaks/Troughs Fibonacci Levels Cloud Model Trendlines and Price Patterns
Three Classes of Indicators Trend-Following Overbought/Oversold Relative Strength
Market Internals Breadth
Trend-following MACD Moving Averages Overbought/Oversold Stochastic Oscillator DeMARK Indicators® Relative Strength Comparative Ratios Relative Rotation Graphs (RRG)®
Sentiment Leadership Volume
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First, we start with a long-term framework‌
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Then, we refine our views using intermediate-term gauges‌
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Lastly, our short-term indicators facilitate market timing
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Sector rotation can be key to outperformance
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There are distinct trends on the sector level Consumer Discretionary
Consumer Staples
Financials
Industrials
Technology
Utilities
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The market’s internal measures tell a story
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We like to pay attention to the internals in aggregate Now:
April 2018 low:
Nov. 2017 low:
Feb. 2016 low:
Sources: CQG, Inc., Bloomberg Finance L.P., & Fairlead Strategies, LLC.
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Analysis of other asset classes bolsters our views
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Trend-following can be instrumental in asset allocation
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Biography Katie Stockton, CMT Fairlead Strategies, LLC Founder and Managing Partner Katie Stockton is Founder and Managing Partner of Fairlead Strategies, LLC. Prior to forming Fairlead Strategies, Ms. Stockton served as Chief Technical Strategist for BTIG for four years and was Chief Market Technician at MKM Partners for nine years. Previously, she was a technical analyst for Morgan Stanley and Wit Soundview. Ms. Stockton received her Chartered Market Technician (CMTÂŽ) designation in 2001, and later joined the board of the Chartered Market Technician Association, serving as Vice President from 2012 to 2016. In 2017, she was honored by The Technical Analyst, which awarded BTIG the Best Institutional Brokerage for Equity Research, for her work. Ms. Stockton graduated magna cum laude with a BSBA from the University of Richmond, and she is currently a member of the Executive Advisory Council for the Robins School of Business.
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