Head of US equity strategy, Citi Research
8 dated public stances tracked since 2026-04-08, most recently 2026-10-16. Each line carries the date and the venue it came from; quotation marks mean verbatim. Methodology.
The stances below are c8alpha's editorial distillation of Scott Chronert's public commentary — television, podcasts, and interviews — compiled by automated transcript analysis and dated to the episode they came from. They may lag the speaker's current view and may contain extraction errors. Text in quotation marks is verbatim from the episode; everything else is our paraphrase. Scott Chronert is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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Raw direction-aware returns on public statements — long calls credited when the price rose, shorts when it fell, shorts capped at −100% — in a rising market this mostly measures who was long, not who has skill. Returns run from the stance date; calls are rarely closed publicly, so fixed 90-day / 180-day / 1-year horizons are used. A horizon shows only once it has fully matured, and only at 5+ scored stances. “% correct” is the share of those scored calls whose direction-aware return was positive at the horizon — in a rising market a bullish call is correct by default, so read it beside the market, not alone.
Scored calls
Every tracked call with at least one matured horizon: the rows behind the Returns
line above. A dash is a horizon that has not matured yet.
| Date | Name | Call | 90d | 180d | 1y |
|---|
| 2026-04-08 | BANKS | owns | +10.2% | +3.5% | — |
View flips
Where the tracked view on a theme reversed between appearances —
bullish to bearish or back. Dates are the episodes on each side of the turn.
BANKS —
bullish2026-04-08 →
bearish2026-10-16 Most-argued themes
| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|
| BANKS | 3 | | 1 bullish / 1 bearish / 1 neutral | 2026-10-16 |
| Big Tech | 1 | | 1 bearish | 2026-09-01 |
| ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE SECTOR | 1 | | 1 neutral | 2026-09-01 |
| HEALTHCARE | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2026-10-16 |
| SPX | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2026-09-01 |
| US SMALL/MID CAP EQUITIES | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2026-04-08 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2026-10-16
HEALTHCARE
bullish
Bloomberg Open Interest · video
Healthcare offers better positioning than banks and financials in the current midterm election environment, with less political and rate sensitivity as a deliberate sector overweight this quarter
“We have been more constructive on health care this quarter.”
Open Interest 10/16/2026
2026-10-16
BANKS
bearish
Bloomberg Open Interest · video
Midterm election uncertainty and rate sensitivity create near-term headwinds for banks and financials, warranting a sector underweight relative to the broader market
“Less constructive on banks and financials.”
Open Interest 10/16/2026
2026-10-07
BANKS
neutral
Bloomberg Surveillance · video
Downgraded from overweight to market weight as curve dynamics erode net interest margin upside and a Democratic election outcome risks unwinding the deregulation tailwind that has supported bank valuations for 18 months
“we lowered banks from a long-standing overweight a couple of weeks ago down to a market weight”
Bloomberg Surveillance 10/7/2026
2026-09-01
SPX
bullish
Bloomberg Open Interest · video
The AI trade broadening into non-MAG7 S&P sectors combined with a Q3 earnings season catalyst and post-midterm sentiment clearing supports a push to 8100 by year-end despite near-term rate noise
“we can finish strong into the end of the year because we're going to be looking at a 27 earnings trajectory that's still in pretty good shape”
Open Interest 9/1/2026
2026-09-01
Big Tech
bearish
Bloomberg Open Interest · video
The MAG7 cohort has lost its leadership relevancy as the AI trade rotates into a broader set of S&P sectors, making it a relative underperformer versus the index
“we think that the law MAG7 has lost relevancy... they've been a real underperformer”
Open Interest 9/1/2026
2026-09-01
ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE SECTOR
neutral
Bloomberg Open Interest · video
Software has rebounded sharply to become the best-performing S&P industry group QTD but without a corresponding uplift in forward growth estimates, suggesting the rebound is largely priced in; upgraded from underweight to market weight
“tendency here would be to respect the price action but let's not get over our skis in terms of enthusiasm for software”
Open Interest 9/1/2026
2026-04-08
US SMALL/MID CAP EQUITIES
bullish
Bloomberg The Close · video
Small and mid caps are more economically sensitive and were set up for a notable earnings progression in 2026 under the soft-landing scenario; the ceasefire allows the broadening trade, which was pushed to the sidelines, to be reestablished
“the first place we go with this is down cap in the US small mid cap”
Wave of Optimism Sweeps Through Global Markets | The Close 4/8/2026
2026-04-08
BANKS
owns
Bloomberg The Close · video
Within large cap, banks offer the clearest cyclical setup as a vehicle for the broadening trade, warranting a maintained overweight
“we'd emphasize ongoing overweight in our banks outlook”
90d +10.2% · 180d +3.5%
Wave of Optimism Sweeps Through Global Markets | The Close 4/8/2026
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