{"id":7210,"date":"2017-10-01T19:10:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T19:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/?p=7210"},"modified":"2017-10-01T19:10:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T19:10:30","slug":"smallcap-value-closes-performance-gap-since-mid-august-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/?p=7210","title":{"rendered":"SmallCap Value Closes Performance Gap since mid-August &#8217;17"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7211\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/?attachment_id=7211\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7211\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7211\" src=\"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stylebox93017-300x122.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stylebox93017-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stylebox93017-768x312.png 768w, https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stylebox93017-1024x416.png 1024w, https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stylebox93017.png 1179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With a clean quarter-end cutoff this weekend, I thought it would be a good idea to update the style box or &#8220;Value vs Growth&#8221; analysis done for readers every 6 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Likely thanks to the rally in Energy, &#8220;Value&#8221; across all the market cap ranges closed the performance differential since mid-August &#8217;17, with the smallcap asset class showing the sharpest improvement over the last 6 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Clients have been kept out of Energy since &#8211; if the secular bear market path followed by both Tech and Financial sectors plays out &#8211; there is more consolidation ahead for the Energy sector. Remember, the crude oil bear market didn&#8217;t start until September &#8211; October, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Financial&#8217;s which I consider to be a Value sector have rebounded nicely since early September &#8211; that too likely helped the mid and large-cap asset classes.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the charts, many of the major asset classes, i.e. SP 500, Russell 2000, Mid-Cap&#8217;s, the Bank Index, Transport&#8217;s, are poised for breakouts. There is a technician who has grouped these charts into one frame, and I need to show it to readers. This week, later in the week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; With a clean quarter-end cutoff this weekend, I thought it would be a good idea to update the style&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-style-analysis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7213,"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions\/7213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}