With the latest round of tariffs on Chinese goods, the market is looking tense. One measure of risk appetite is the small-cap to large-cap ratio, which has been very weak recently. In All Star Charts Institutional’s Top 10 Charts of the Week, there’s juiced-up version of the risk gauge to consider: micro-cap to mega-cap.
“We are finally witnessing some relative strength as we move down the market-cap scale,” All Star Charts Institutional wrote in a client note. “For years Large-Caps have bested their Small-Cap and Mid-Cap peers, but in the past week, we’ve seen the Small-Cap Russell 2000 start to bottom at key lows relative to the S&P 500. In the chart below, we are looking at a juiced-up version of the Small vs Large-Cap ratio: Micro-Caps vs Mega-Caps. This ratio recently undercut its all-time low from 2009 as momentum diverges positively. With Small and Micro-Caps at an inflection point, will they bottom relative to their Large and Mega-Cap peers… or is this simply a consolidation before another leg lower? We should know soon. If we get the continued rotation we’re expecting, we can be long above 0.90. But below that level, bearish/neutral is best.”
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