JC Parets, who holds a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation, is the founder of All Star Charts and is one of the most widely followed Technical Analysts in the world. All Star Charts is a research platform for both professional and retail investors covering US and International stocks, interest rates, commodities, and forex markets.
JC’s work has been featured regularly on Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox Business, ABC, CNN, Wall Street Journal, and many other financial media outlets around the world. You will often see JC as a speaker at some of the top investing conferences; he has also been invited to speak at Harvard, Duke, NYU, the University of Chicago, and Hong Kong Baptist University, among other institutions, about Technical Analysis and Behavioral Finance. JC specializes in finding the most opportunistic risk vs reward propositions while at the same time bringing a top/down approach to the marketplace, whose wide spectrum is rivaled by few.
When he is not looking at charts, JC enjoys playing and watching sports, good food, and good wine.
Keep in mind, that despite so many things working this year, the exposure that U.S. Indexes have to American Tech stocks is off the charts.
You simply don't have any American Mega-cap Tech stocks in Europe (FEZ), which is up over 14.5% this quarter. Latin America (ILF) and Africa (AFK) are each up 13.5% this quarter. And Chinese Internet (KWEB) is up 20%.
These are historic returns to start the year. And I'm not cherry picking here. We're literally talking about every continent except North America.
Meanwhile, the S&P500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq100 are all...