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About the author: is the creator of Relative Rotation Graphs™. This unique method to visualize relative strength within a universe of securities was first launched on Bloomberg professional services terminals in January of 2011 and was released on StockCharts.com in July of 2014. After graduating from the Dutch Royal Military Academy, Julius served in the Dutch Air Force in multiple officer ranks. He retired from the military as a captain in 1990 to enter the financial industry as a portfolio manager for Equity & Law (now part of AXA Investment Managers). Learn More

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Still RISK ON for Asset Allocation ?

by Julius de Kempenaer

Wow...! What a difference a month makes .... I had lunch with Arthur Hill yesterday in Breda (the Netherlands) which is halfway where he lives in Belgium and where I live in the Netherlands (Amsterdam)...Read More 

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Boeing on final approach for landing at "lagging" runway

by Julius de Kempenaer

The Relative Rotation Graph below shows the members of the Dow Jones Industrials index with that same index acting as the benchmark. As all members of the benchmark universe are present on the plot we call this a "closed universe"...Read More 

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US Equities remain firmly in the lead

by Julius de Kempenaer

The landscape for international equities continues to show a rotation out of Emerging Markets into more developed markets. At least that is the big picture...Read More 

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Energy continues weakness but Financials rotating into leading quadrant

by Julius de Kempenaer

Printed below is the weekly Relative Rotation Graph(tm) of the nine S&P sector ETFs against SPY. The clear eye-catcher on this picture is the move of XLE (Energy) deep inside the lagging quadrant and still heading deeper into it...Read More 

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Commmmmmodities and Real(ly weak)-Estate

by Julius de Kempenaer

On the Relative Rotation Graph holding a number of, indices representing various, Asset Classes there are two that are standing out and deserve our attention. The first one is Commodities and the second one is Real-Estate...Read More 

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Single stock rotation within $INDU

by Julius de Kempenaer

In previous posts I have been looking at asset classes, sectors, countries etc. In this post I am going to throw the 30 constituents of the Dow Jones Industrials index ($INDU) at a Relative Rotation Graph and also look for confirmation between weekly and daily time-frames...Read More 

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International equity market rotation on Relative Rotation Graphs(tm)

by Julius de Kempenaer

In a previous article we looked at using Relative Rotation Graphs for analyzing asset class rotation. One of the main caveats that was pointed out in that blog was to be very careful on what ticker symbols to use to construct the RRG with...Read More 

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Strong relative rotation for Health Care and Technology

by Julius de Kempenaer

The Relative Rotation Graph of the nine sector ETFs against the S&P 500 (SPY) is showing some clear and distinct rotations at the moment...Read More 

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Using RRG charts for Asset Allocation

by Julius de Kempenaer

One of the comments on my last article (daily data now available for RRG charts) mentioned using RRG charts in relation to monitoring different asset classes, which just happened to be the subject of this article that I was already working on when the comment came in...Read More 

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DAILY data now available for RRG charts

by Julius de Kempenaer

Until now Relative Rotation Graphs on StockCharts.com could only be rendered using weekly data-streams... Not any more! The early adapters and users who check in on RRGs on a daily basis may have seen the new addition already...Read More