CHART OF THE DAY: The Commodity/Emerging Market Correlation

I already know what TRENDING INFLATION is doing in my proprietary NOWCAST. I don’t need Steve Liesman and the banjo player @CNBC to give me a tip on that, ha.

What I am going to be doing is more of what I have been doing since making the explicit Asset Allocation Pivots in both the USA and globally during our Q4 Macro Themes presentation (which was on September 23^rd, 2021):

1. Buy the damn dips in a broadening basket of Commodity Allocations – Cocoa (NIB), Uranium (URA), and Coffee (JO)
2. Buy a new EM (Emerging Markets) basket of countries like Thailand (THD), Israel (EIS), and Indonesia (IDX)
3. Buy US Small Cap Value (IWN) because A) it’s a Long in #Quad2 and B) I like the weights in the basket

When I say “I like” something, that doesn’t mean I have a personal relationship with it. It means it’s A) Signaling Bullish @Hedgeye TREND and B) back-tests as a Long or Short in the pending Quad.