With the arrival of H2 we take a look at the weather report from the end of H1 and at the prospects for the summer ahead
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Weather Report September 2025
Storm season arrives We call our regular Apollo based commentary “The Weather report”. The analogies that we can make with the multiple elements of Value, Momentum and Uncertainty impacting markets in a continuous way chimes nicely with the idea of Currents, Tides and Winds, all impacting the navigation of the high seas. Whatever the nature of […]
As summer ends, we move into more autumnal conditions in the markets. Things remain relatively stead but we can expect a pick up in the weather ahead as corporate reports and macro factors start to set the course to year end.
Beyond the weather report, the other essential maritime document is the Nautical Almanac. In many ways, a form of Market Almanac could be a useful addition to the information system for investors and the following document is a version of it, based upon the Apollo view of the markets.
According to Edwin Starr, absolutely nothing, but shareholders of BAE Systems and other European defence stocks might beg to differ as the chart below shows.
There should be a better conversation about how to manage both risk and reward in equity markets.
In the world of data – quality is everything. We have now made Apollo data even more accessible and user friendly as the whole database can now be delivered seamlessly to your workflows via Snowflake – a data warehouse built for the cloud.
Everything we do at Libra is from ‘the bottom up.’ The sector and market signals are an aggregation from the signal stock level. Investors can start at the market level and cascade from sectors to stocks to see the best opportunities.
In the same way that many investment advisors failed to sell certain stocks when the time arose (see previous posts) they may not have the skillset or process that allows them gauge when to buy. In markets such as this, an answer is to be found in Benjamin Graham’s Margin of safety. The principle of […]
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Fly me to the moon…
Knowing when to buy a stock is one thing but understanding the risk of loss is another skill altogether.