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Jun 5, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Market Regime Update

1. Assets rebounded this week, with stocks, bonds, and gold all up on the week. Commodities showed mixed performance, with significant losses during the start of the week weighing on performance. Image
2. Recent #treasury strength continued the recent chop in the market, i.e., moving counter to the recent one-month trend. Below, we show the composition of total treasury market returns over the last month: Image
3. As we can see above, treasuries across the curve continue to show weakness as nominal #GDP continues to show resilience. At the same time, #equity markets continue to show lopsided performance over the past month, primarily driven by valuations rising: Image
4. The combination of these moves has improved the odds of a rising #growth market regime over the last month. These changes continue to keep the distribution of market regime probabilities as highlighted below: Image
5. Our non-linear trend process has worked well in navigating these conflicting market regime dynamics. Updates on these signals are shared below:

6. Finally, while S&P 500 trend strength remains strong, we think it is important to recognize that there is significant dispersion within the index. Below, we show equity-sector trend signals. Image

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May 19
Role Of Liquidity In The Investment Framework 🧵

1/7 Despite insulating a portfolio from growth and inflation risks, it still remains exposed to risks coming from liquidity. Below we present our thoughts on the role of liquidity in an investment framework. Image
2/7 Recall liquidity is the flow of cash and cash-like assets that potentiates spending in the economy and markets. Every asset is exposed to liquidity risk. The less liquidity in the system, the more the drag on assets.
3/7 A balanced portfolio of assets makes money over the long term by liquidity flowing from the risk-free cash rate to risky assets to earning risk premium.
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1/8 Markets have now moved to rising growth, inflation, and liquidity. This combination of market regimes probabilities is supportive of stocks and commodities, but much less so for bonds.

We dive deeper into the data driving our assessment. Image
2/8 Over the last week macro asset markets rose in aggregate, with the gains skewed towards commodities and gold. Bonds also saw gains, breaking their recently negative correlation to commodities. Image
3/8 Economic data momentum fell further this week as retail sales, industrial production, and jobless claims disappointed expectations. Image
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On Liquidity Dynamics🧵

1. Liquidity is the flow of cash-like assets that potentiate spending in the real and financial economy. Liquidity potentiates returns across assets, while the nominal growth environment determines the distribution of returns within assets. Image
2. Today, liquidity conditions are elevated but are increasingly likely to be in a topping process. Liquidity can come from three major sources: government, corporates, and intermediaries.
3. The contribution of these entities to the overall aggregate liquidity environment varies over time. However, the government's role in liquidity creation has recently risen dramatically. We visualize this below via the sheer size of government assets supply: Image
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May 14
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1. Prometheus Asset Allocation is our long-only portfolio that starts with diversified exposure to Stocks (SPY), Bonds (TYA), and Commodities (DBC). Image
2. Using our systematic macro process, our strategy looks to add Alpha to assets in this diversified portfolio, by side-stepping negative macro regimes. To illustrate the value-add of our macro approach, we visualize the “implicit alpha” in our asset allocation strategy. Image
3. We show the result of simply going long our preferred allocation, while going short a passive beta portfolio. As we can see above, this Alpha Overlay has been significantly value additive over time.
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What’s Moving Markets?

A retrospective on last weeks macro & market moves. Image
1/ Over the last week, markets moved to price disinflationary outcomes, with the odds of falling growth rising. Inflationary pricing has now grown to dominate cross-asset pricing on a trending basis. Image
2/ Over the last week macro asset markets rose in aggregate, however, the distribution of gains was once again shifted to disinflationary assets. Treasuries led to gains, while gold saw meaningful losses. Image
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May 5
Thoughts On Alpha Opportunities 📝

1/ Until very recently, the clearest alpha trade to us was to be long stocks vs bonds. That opportunity set has faded significantly. The question is, as always, what’s the next trade?

Some thoughts…..
2/ Starting with the fundamental backdrop:

- Growth looks fine, with some slowing likely ahead
- Inflation is stable, and likely to stay above 2%
- Liquidity is elevated, and will likely see some flatlining from here

Feel free to replace these inputs with your preferences…
3/ Relative to these current + forward conditions, markets are pricing in:

- Earnings expectations that have improved significantly
- Modestly higher inflation
- Policy rates consistent with a mild recession/insurance cuts
- A yield curve that remains inverted
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