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Sector Spotlight: The Story of ARGoN (Acampora's Relative Grid of Nine)

Julius de Kempenaer

Julius de Kempenaer

Senior Technical Analyst, StockCharts.com

In this episode of StockCharts TV's Sector Spotlight, I chat with guest Ralph Acampora in the StockCharts.com studio in Redmond, WA. We discuss the birth of ARGoN, a special way of looking at markets from both a price and a relative perspective.

Once upon a time, Ralph was used to talking to institutional investors who were all about relative performance; they needed to beat the benchmark. This all changed when he started presenting to private clients, who confronted him with their totally different way of looking and perceiving market performance. As Ralph explains, he need to blend both price and relative performance led to the development of, what is now known as, ARGoN - Acampora's Relative Grid of Nine.

This video was originally broadcast on September 15, 2023. Click anywhere on the Sector Spotlight logo above to view on our dedicated Sector Spotlight page, or click this link to watch on YouTube.

Past episodes of Sector Spotlight can be found here.

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Julius de Kempenaer
Senior Technical Analyst, StockCharts.com
CreatorRelative Rotation Graphs
FounderRRG Research
Host ofSector Spotlight

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Julius de Kempenaer
About the author: is the creator of Relative Rotation Graphs™. This unique method to visualize relative strength within a universe of securities was first launched on Bloomberg professional services terminals in January of 2011 and was released on StockCharts.com in July of 2014. After graduating from the Dutch Royal Military Academy, Julius served in the Dutch Air Force in multiple officer ranks. He retired from the military as a captain in 1990 to enter the financial industry as a portfolio manager for Equity & Law (now part of AXA Investment Managers). Learn More