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• Dividend Yield Buy-and-Hold Meter by Elliott Middleton

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V.13:08 (329-331): Dividend Yield Buy-and-Hold Meter by Elliott Middleton Here's a comparison of the historical dividend yield of the S&P 500 on a monthly basis and what the 10-year total return for the S&P was after each observation of the dividend yield. How many times have you heard this: ""Over any 10-year period, you'll do fine in the stock market. Just buy and hold, don't try to time the market. Everyone knows you can't time the market."" Wrong. While generations of finance professors have been taught - and in turn have taught their students - that the stock market follows a random ...

AUTHOR: Elliott MiddletonDATE: AUG 1995

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• The Coppock Curve by Elliott Middleton

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Coppock Curve by Elliott Middleton The Coppock formula was introduced in Barron's in 1962, devised by a San Antonio, TX-based technician named Edwin Sedgwick Coppock. Since then, the Coppock oscillator has been adopted and adapted by technicians around the world. Here's how to use the Coppock curve to recognize major bottoms in the stock market. We are creatures of habit. We judge the world relative to what we have experienced. If we're shopping for a mortgage and rates have been in the teens (as they were in the early 1980s) and then drop to 10%, we are elated. If, however, they've bee...

AUTHOR: Elliott MiddletonDATE: NOV 1994