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Callum Thomas

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Head of Research & Founder at Topdown Charts (chart-driven macro insights for investors)

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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Quarterly Strategy Pack - Q3 2026 -Macro Outlook -Asset Allocation views -Specific ideas and issues Get the pack + join the webinar: www.topdowncharts.pro/p/quarterly-...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm www.chartstorm.info/p/weekly-s-a... This week: bull market broadening, lag 7, equal-weighted vs cap-weighted, value vs growth, financials, micro caps, bubble watch (AI stocks), REITs
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Chart of the Week - Big Moves in Small Caps Plenty of room to run, here's why: www.chartstorm.info/p/chart-of-t...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Weekly ChartStorm coming soon... Meantime, check out last week's edition + subscribe: www.chartstorm.info/p/weekly-s-a...
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Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm - 28 June 2026
This week: the "lag-7", valuations, earnings euphoria, sector sizes, tech sector, foreign flows, market regimes, small caps...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
What could go wrong? Discussed here (Weekly #ChartStorm ): www.chartstorm.info/p/weekly-s-a...
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Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm - 28 June 2026
This week: the "lag-7", valuations, earnings euphoria, sector sizes, tech sector, foreign flows, market regimes, small caps...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
$0.50 of every $1 in Sector ETFs is in Tech Sector Funds (should be fine...)
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Chart featured back here: www.chartstorm.info/p/weekly-s-a...
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Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm - 21 January 2024
This week: new all-time highs, the journey, equal-weighted index, rate cut clues, boom and bust signs, the laggards, fund manager performance, tech vs the rest (valuations)...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
For those wishing for Rate Cuts... If the Fed cuts unnecessarily then stocks go up, but if they cut because things are unravelling in the economy then it won't help stocks at all. (also notice how the market tends to trade into the first cut)
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This chart tells you all you need to know about investing in Stocks vs Bonds. Observations: Bonds & stocks go up together most of the time. Stocks beat bonds most of the time. (but bonds beat stocks most of the time when stocks go down) from The Weekly #ChartStorm
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
as discussed in this post (+report) --see: www.topdowncharts.pro/p/weekly-rep...
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Weekly Report Highlights + Chart in Focus: global equities, small caps, TAA review...
Exclusive Chart inside and Highlights from the latest report...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The AI boom (/bubble?) has triggered a surge in earnings expectations unlike anything we've ever seen before. This has helped EM equities outperform vs US and developed, but it's also starting to look a little too good to be true. And it's not the only interesting thing going on in earnings...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
As discussed in this edition of The Weekly ChartStorm: www.chartstorm.info/p/weekly-s-a...
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Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm - 18 May 2025
This week: credit conditions, consumer sentiment, bulls and bull markets, fiscal things, credit risk, foreign flows, asset allocation, European stocks, longer-term risk signals...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Is this a test of financial literacy? ...or is it a matter of volatility? (or is it simply that most people hold real estate for the long-term by default, and hence get to actually see the benefits without getting spooked out by news headlines and daily market volatility)
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
In 2022 the Stockmarket put in a Major Top -and- a Major Bottom Here's two #ChartStorm case studies documenting the clues/signs of the Top & Bottom Top: www.chartstorm.info/p/weekly-cha... Trough: www.chartstorm.info/p/weekly-cha...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Adjusted for market movements, margin debt is still expanding at a rapid pace. Yes this is a warning sign. As detailed here: www.chartstorm.info/p/chart-of-t...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Weekly Report Highlights + Chart in Focus This week: global equities, small caps, TAA review, and a stunning chart on global equity "fundamentals" --read it here: www.topdowncharts.pro/p/weekly-rep...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Covered this and some similar issues in the latest ChartStorm:
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Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm - 28 June 2026
This week: the "lag-7", valuations, earnings euphoria, sector sizes, tech sector, foreign flows, market regimes, small caps...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
What is more important in this chart? -the gap between them -the record highs in each -them both going up together (as seen in The Weekly ChartStorm)
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
As originally discussed here:
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Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm - 26 May 2024
This week: technical check, expense management, sentiment snapback, margin debt expansion, ETFs, echoes of the past, crab markets, rising ownership, tech tops...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We've become accustomed to markets just trending and going up over time, but there are plenty of examples across history and geographies of markets that just range. This 25-year period of time in Japan was one for market timers and not long-term trend followers. (...albeit there are clear trends o
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
If you missed the 10 Worst days in the market, your returns would be materially better than the index. So, should we therefore attempt to time the market? Most finfluencers only tell you about the red line, so what is the intellectually honest approach here?? from The Weekly ChartStorm
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Most people talk about Stock prices when they talk about Seasonality, but Volatility and Credit Spreads also follow seasonal patterns... Off-Topic #ChartStorm on Seasonality: www.chartstorm.info/p/off-topic-...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The cycle is dead. (long live the cycle)
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Talked about this + the bigger picture issues to consider (the above chart is just one puzzle piece after-all):
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Chart of the Week - Margin Debt Alert
Chart in-focus from the latest Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Just as mag-7 turns to lag-7 and various cracks are appearing in the bull case, investors are about as levered up as they can get... (what could go wrong)
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
p.s. this indicator has not had a good run when things get heated like this... basically a contrarian sentiment indicator! As discussed in The Weekly ChartStorm:
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Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm - 28 June 2026
This week: the "lag-7", valuations, earnings euphoria, sector sizes, tech sector, foreign flows, market regimes, small caps...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Another week, another new all-time high in long-term average expected earnings growth... Have Wall Street analysts lost the plot or are we really heading into a period of earnings hyperinflation?
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
as featured in The Weekly ChartStorm:
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Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm - 10 August 2025
This week: volatility season, recession unmentioned, earnings beats, profits and profit margin trends (tech vs non tech, big vs non big), leverage, valuations...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
On the other side of the AI boom we will probably see the blue line go down and the black line go up... (few understand or expect this)
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm www.chartstorm.info/p/weekly-s-a... This week: the "lag-7", valuations, earnings euphoria, sector sizes, tech sector, foreign flows, market regimes, small caps...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Tech Sector capex is crowding out Commodity capex 🧐 🤔 There's one small problem with this...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Here's one of the things I love most about writing The Weekly #ChartStorm -- subscribers love it. Here's what else they have to say about it: www.chartstorm.info/p/reviews
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Weekly ChartStorm coming soon! In the meantime be sure to check out last week's edition (unlocked for your review) + subscribe to get the best curated charts straight to your inbox each week: www.chartstorm.info/p/weekly-s-a...
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Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm - 21 June 2026
This week: MAG7 vs the S&P 493, equal vs cap weight rotation, valuations and profitability, cash allocations, margin debt, seasonality, industrials, and why treasuries...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Funny thing on this chart, Perspective matters... if you hold something that falls -50% it has to rise 100% to get you back to where it started. if something you don't hold falls -50% it will gain 100% if it just gets back to where it started. (there's a lesson in there)
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
As discussed:
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Chart of the Week - Margin Debt Alert
Chart in-focus from the latest Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Margin Debt Acceleration 👀 Yes, it is a valid and reliable warning indicator...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
as previously covered here:
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Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm - 14 June 2026
This week: space for a sell-off, buying the dip, bullish broadening and rotation, the big and the small, SpaceX IPO, space sector stocks, the big sector skews...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Space Stocks have crashed -50% since the 28th May peak. The past couple years this type of move was a buying opportunity... (𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘬𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘦-𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘺)
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
as talked about in this edition of The Weekly ChartStorm report:
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Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm - 17 November 2024
This week: technicals check, a focus on sentiment (retail vs fund managers, market measures, analysts, consumers, investors big and small), sales growth, and the age of the biggest...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
on Consistent Fast Growth 🧐 in 2018 there were 1055 companies who reported sales growth of 10% or more… by 2023 only 35 of them were able to consistently grow sales by at least 10% year-after-year across that 6-year period. In other words, it’s easy to grow fast once, hard to grow fast consisten
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Inflation-adjusted 10-year rolling total returns are at cycle Highs for stocks, and cycle Lows for bonds. Due for a reversal? more in The Weekly #ChartStorm
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The Weekly #ChartStorm >> when did it start >> what's the point >> who's behind it +More: www.chartstorm.info/p/getting-st...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
as featured in The Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm report:
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Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm - 2 November 2025
This week: monthly charts, seasonality, technical check, valuations, profit margin prophets, foreign owners, long-term asset returns, tech vs non-tech, global vs US...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Globalization of the US Stockmarket ...if you think about it, more and more offshore investors buying into US listed companies just as US listed companies are making more and more of their money from offshore. 🤔
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
From the Weekly ChartStorm COTW note --see source + archives here: www.chartstorm.info/p/chart-of-t...
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Chart of the Week - The Bigs and the Big Nots
Chart in-focus from the latest Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Market Cap Weights -Mega Caps are bigger than usual -Large Caps are at a record low -SMID are smaller than usual We've seen huge shifts in cap weights across size cohorts --majorly distorted market, big moves like this rarely last long and are often the sign of a boom/bubble ready for bust.
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
More fixed income thoughts in the Off-Topic ChartStorm:
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Off-Topic ChartStorm - Fixed Income in Focus
This session: bond volatility, credit spreads, FX volatility, Japanese government bonds, treasuries, higher for longer risk, bonds return outlook, asset allocation issues...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Bond yields have been caught in a macro stalemate of resurgence risk vs recession risk. This tight trading range has helped volatility relax back to the lows... But remember: neither high nor low volatility lasts long in markets --and when treasury yields do finally break out of the range volatili
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
See more surprising and thought provoking charts like this in The Weekly #ChartStorm report:
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Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm - 22 June 2025
This week: noise levels, fund flows, seasonality snippets, global vs US stocks, global vs US investors, partisan market views, active vs passive, Fed sour spot...
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Callum Thomas @topdowncharts.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Cause or Effect? (also, the real question: can those other countries ever rise to match the same as the USA? ---because that could be huge for their stockmarkets...)
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