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.
There are so many things working this year. American Growth stocks are just not on the list.
The underperformance from this group is on another level. These are things that haven't been seen in 20 years.
Look at U.S. Technology hitting new cycle lows relative to the S&P500. The struggle has been real since last summer. And the selling has not slowed down.
Also notice how the High Beta Index is hitting new lows relative to Low Volatility.
Over half the S&P500 High Beta Index is in Technology.
Berkshire Hathaway, for example, which is hitting new all-time highs, is one of the largest component of the Low Volatility Index.
It's the High Beta stuff - Tech and Consumer Discretionary, that's leading the way lower in the United States.
Here is the Semiconductors Index peaking last summer relative to the S&P500 "in the middle of an AI Revolution" lol.
AI revolution. More like an AI hallucination...
There are so many things working in this market.
Every single sector in the U.S. is either flat or up in 2025, except for Technology and Consumer Discretionary which are both down double digits this...
Before I head out for the day I wanted to share a few thoughts about the market and what I'm seeing out there.
This week I laid out all my thoughts and favorite trades during our LIVE Conference Call. So today's note is about a few other things I didn't talk about on the call.
The first one is this big 2100 level in Ethereum. Remember that despite all the underperformance from this one, ETH still carries a $240 Billion market-cap and is still the 2nd largest token on the planet.
If we're back above last year's lows, I would really start to get interested in this one. Look for the Bitcoin dominance to come off if Ethereum starts to outperform again. ETH can really help the Alts...