MSCI Inc (MSCI) — Technical state
As of 2026-09-17 — re-computed nightly across the coverage universe. Closelook diary readings, not advice.
Trades -4% vs the 50-day and -3.7% vs the 200-day average, 14.8% below the 52-week high and +10.5% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes.
The moving-average stack
- vs 20-day-2%
- vs 50-day-4%
- vs 200-day-3.7%
- 52-week band14.8% off the high · +10.5% off the low
- Streak1 consecutive up session
- 50-day crossprice crossed down through the 50-day 41 sessions ago
- Stochastic%K 30.9 · %D 15.5 · bull cross
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FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-17
Quick answers
What is the current Closelook signal on MSCI?
Mixed moving-average stack — Trades -4% vs the 50-day and -3.7% vs the 200-day average, 14.8% below the 52-week high and +10.5% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17; the signal board re-computes across the coverage universe nightly. A research diary reading, not advice.
Is MSCI above its 50-day and 200-day moving averages?
As of 2026-09-17, MSCI Inc trades -4% below its 50-day and -3.7% below its 200-day average, with the 20-day -2% away.
How far is MSCI from its 52-week high?
14.8% below the 52-week high and 10.5% above the 52-week low, as of 2026-09-17.
Mentioned on Closelook
Where MSCI appears in the diary — 8 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.
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Long reads
- Software vs Semis — The Axis Turned
VEU (Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US): broad — developed and emerging markets, technology present but not dominant, which for this purpose beats the all-world fund or MSCI World, where the US tech weight drowns the rest.
- Diversification — Diversified into the Losers · Closelook Heresy XIII
The MSCI World, marketed as exposure to 23 developed markets and some 1,400 companies, is roughly three-quarters American, and its top ten holdings are the same American names.
- When You Think the Rally Pauses, Sell Calls — Not Your ETF
Two regional notes, since the core isn't always US: URTH (MSCI World) gives broad global exposure but a thin options chain — fine to hold, awkward to overlay.
- Gold: Not What It Used to Be
The correlation regime: tracking the breakdown Historically, the correlation between gold (LBMA) and global equities (MSCI ACWI or S&P 500) has hovered near zero or turned sharply negative during equity drawdowns .
- Portfolio Construction — The Barbell Architecture, Why the Middle Is Decay
The reason the strategic pole compounds is that it owns the few extreme winners by construction — Apple before the iPhone was a footnote, Nvidia before 2022 was a sub-3% position in QQQ, ASML was barely visible in MSCI Europe before the…
- Portfolio Construction — Build a Barbell · Closelook Heresy III
Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Nvidia, Tesla, Meta — every US wealth creator of the last twenty years sat inside this index long before any of them were big enough to dominate broad MSCI ACWI weights.
- Global Equities — Don’t Buy Global Stocks · Closelook Heresy II
Accept that you'll drag along the losers." This is the case for passive global market-cap indexing — MSCI World, MSCI ACWI, FTSE All-World.
Dailies
- Asia's Great Divergence: GDP on One Side, Price on the Other
Taiwan — EWT: an all-time high iShares MSCI Taiwan at 103.79, a near-parabolic break above a decade of range.