COMPOSITE MACRO ETF WEEKLY ANALYTICS (2/20/2016)

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LAYOUT (Organized by Time Period): 

  1. Composite ETF Cumulative Returns Momentum Bar plot

  2. Composite ETF Cumulative Returns Line plot

  3. Composite ETF Risk-Adjusted Returns Scatter plot (Std vs Mean)

  4. Composite ETF Risk-Adjusted Return Correlations Heatmap (Clusterplot)

  5. Implied Cost of Capital Estimates

  6. Composite ETF Cumulative Return Tables

  7. Notable Trends and Observations

COMPOSITE ETF COMPONENTS:

LAST 252 TRADING DAYS

LAST 126 TRADING DAYS

LAST 63 TRADING DAYS

Year-to-date LAST 36 TRADING DAYS

LAST 21 TRADING DAYS

LAST 10 TRADING DAYS

Implied Cost of Capital Estimates:

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CATEGORY AVERAGE ICC ESTIMATES

ALL ETF ICC ESTIMATES BY CATEGORY

Cumulative Return Tables:

Notable Observations and Trends:

  • Unfortunately not much has changed this week. Many of the themes I identified last week appear to be ongoing.
  • Defensive positioning is still prevalent as Precious Metals Miners and Precious Metals have continued to outperform.  
  • The relative strength of the Emerging/Frontier and Consumer Discretionary composites over the last 21 and 10 days respectively is somewhat interesting. This gives the appearance of "Risk-On" but the other evidence implies investors should tread carefully.
  • My current working theory is that T-Bonds provide a safe yield for global investors given the increasing popularity of NIRP. The corollary to that thesis is that the Precious Metals complex acts like a put on runaway Central Bank policy. It is likely that Precious Metals will continue to show relative strength until NIRP is removed from the Federal Reserve's policy discussion.