Editor's Note: Below is a chart and excerpt from today's Early Look written by Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough.

...To reiterate the crystal clarity of it all, there are more Global Equity markets that my Macro Team and I are more bearish on here in 2018 than we are bullish. Being long something that’s actually UP in 2018 (Nasdaq) works vs. plenty of things that are down YTD. 

On slide 42 of our current Macro deck (Theme = #GlobalDivergences), here are my Top 3 LONGS vs SHORTS in Global Equities: 

...There are some countries where we have a #GrowthAccelerating view (we call those Quad 1 and Quad 2 setups in our GIP Model – Growth, Inflation, Policy) but a bearish quantitative @Hedgeye TREND risk management signal.

CHART OF THE DAY: Culmination --> Synchronized Global Recovery - 02.08.18 EL Chart