Visitor: Nowadays value analysis is unfashionable. Is the trend also your friend?

RouteMaster: Yes. Like a chameleon, Investors RouteMap can be whatever you want it to be. If you are only interested in trends, we can offer them in four varieties.

Since we are on to economics, let's show you our Forex Model, which is generated by our own econometric models for each currency. This are fed by consensus forecasts of key economic variables. While such forecasts can be wrong and all models of necessity over-simplify, we don't actually need a high degree of accuracy - the right direction and order of magnitude will do for our purpose.

In this type of chart, you will notice the signals used before as this type is used as a Summary, stripped of explanation and concentrating on the Best Guesses.

You may also see that the currency performance is different. That is because it is fairer, if also more  complicated, to include interest in total returns.

Incidentally have you spotted our colour coding – indexes are white, variables are yellow (and light green) and Best Guesses are orange (and pink), while buy & sell signals are red arrows.

This chart shows an interesting divergence between the good technical outlook, as indicated by the most recent up red arrow picture and a neutral economic outlook, according to our model.