About tom
Lines On A Chart
Welcome to Lines On A Chart—a weekly breakdown of the market’s environment, tone, and turning points, published every Sunday morning.
I'm Tom, and for more than a decade, I’ve navigated markets through the lens of technical analysis, sentiment, and market breadth—not just to make sense of the noise, but to manage risk, protect capital, and find opportunity.
At the core of this newsletter is a simple but powerful system:
A three-part risk framework that classifies the market environment as either risk-on or risk-off. When all three signals fire simultaneously, it triggers what I call the risk-off alarm—an objective way to spot when markets are vulnerable. The effectiveness of this system is shown in the historical performance table I occasionally share, tracking each risk-off instance and the corresponding market reaction.
That risk framework is what shapes every issue of this letter.