Larry Berman CFA, CMT, CTAMarket Vectors Steel Index E.T.F.SLXWEAK BUYApr 05, 2021

US ETF that covers the whole steel sector. You want to see how your stock is trading relative to its sector. The sector itself looks really interesting. Doesn't have any direct exposure right now, but it's on his radar.

Pressures from tariffs and other things. If we're closer to the end of the business cycle, then a lot of these stocks are getting pretty cheap. He's not promising a turnaround is coming. He'd buy into pullbacks.

See his educational segment. The bump we saw in China is over. China will grow at a much lower rate than the last couple of years. He is playing SLX-N as the best infrastructure play as it is steel in the US.

Steel benefits more from October through to May when manufacturing does well and all the cyclicals do well. The average gain for steel over that time is about 7%. There has been improvement in manufacturing recently, which is not seasonably typical.

Has all the global steel players in it. The Chinese government is 50% of GDP. He would not buy yet, but sometime in 2013 for a 3-5 year hold. Don't chase it here.