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DownloadA Portrait of General Electric as a 2B Test of Top
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A favorite technique for spotting potential market tops and bottoms appears as shares of General Electric test their June highs.
Advance-decline divergence as an oscillator by Arthur A. Merrill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Advance-decline divergence as an oscillator by Arthur A. Merrill Which indicators signaled the crash last October? One that had been shouting a warning was A-D Divergence. This is one of our most venerable indicators. The Advance-Decline Divergence Osci
Apple Poised For Sharp Move As Investors Weigh Conflicting Macro Forces
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Apple is set to break out from a technically important area, but in which direction?
As Broad Market Peaks, A Possible Short For MOT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When big-name stocks severely lag the broad market indexes, look for possible short setups as the S&P 500 maxes out on the current upswing.
As FedEx Goes...
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There's a saying. Have you heard of it? "As FedEx goes, so goes the rest of the market." FedEx is in the transportation business, moving manufactured goods to distribution centers and to retail outlets, among other things. The movement of
As Goes January...
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS..."Every down January on the S&P500 since 1950 without exception has preceded a new or extended bear market, a flat market or 10% correction." 2014 Stock Trader's Almanac
As Goes January... Part 2
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In my last article, we looked at the January Barometer which says that stock performance in the first month is important in determining what stocks will do for the remainder of the year. As it turns out, this indicator is even more accurate following lon
As Gold Stocks Peak, A Possible Short Play With UXG
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volume is an oft-overlooked technical tool, one that traders can use to help anticipate turns in any market.
As January 2012 Goes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As January goes, so goes the year. Here, I use statistical analysis to forecast what the stock market will do in January and the rest of 2012.
As January Goes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As January goes, so goes the year. Here I use statistical analysis to forecast what the stock market will do in January and the rest of the year.
As Markets Spike, So Does Volatility
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks and oil markets saw large price moves in the week of February 25, 2011, and volatility indexes tracking these markets also experienced large swings.
As The Bond Turns by Alex Saitta
Berkshire Hathaway As One Of History's Biggest Winners
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Warren Buffett has built great wealth for himself and his investors with a buy & hold philosophy, and traders would be hard-pressed to keep up.
Best Buy Becomes Big Sell as Key Support Shattered
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of Best Buy plunged nearly nine percent, setting the stage for yet more downside.
Bottoming Tailbar As A Classic Reversal Pattern
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Why the bottoming tailbar is such a powerful reversal signal.
Buying The Loonie As A Stock Trade
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using ETFs, stock traders can take advantage of currency trends.
CRASH As In The Movie, Not The Markets
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The chart hinted at the surprise win on the last trading day before the Academy Awards.
Candlesticks As A Leading Indicator by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Candlesticks As A Leading Indicator by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny Most technical indicators are coincident with the market - that is, the indicators do not forecast market turns but only turn if the market turns. Certain candlestick formation
CoinBase As A Crypto Play
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With the recent surge in Bitcoin prices, there are other stocks out there that may ride the rise in crypto, one such is Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN).
Commitments of Traders as a sentiment indicator By Stephen E. Briese
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Commitments of Traders as a sentiment indicator By Stephen E. Briese In the past, conventional market sentiment indicators have been criticized for deficiencies such as the delay involved in reading market letters, weighing their content, estimating the
Correlation As A Cycle Indicator
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As traders know, markets have trend modes and cyclic (mean-reversion) modes. Last month, we introduced a new indicator--the trend correlation indicator--for trend trading, based on a straightforward yet novel concept. This month, we follow up with a seco
Correlation As A Trend Indicator
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here, we introduce a new indicator: the correlation trend indicator. It could help you to identify the onset of a trend. It could also help you to detect the failure of a trend--thereby giving you an indication that a cyclic mode may be beginning
DIA: Money Flow Flat As Price Surges
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Fed-induced mini-rally on Wednesday made the bulls very happy, but is the latest multimonth rally in the Dow just about done?
DX Turning Higher As Metals Falter
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Some market turns are more easily anticipated than others. This sharp turn in the US Dollar Index was no surprise, given the extremes of bearish sentiment prevailing leading up to the reversal.
EUR/USD: Euro Breakdown As Dollar Surges
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Despite no change in the Fed's $85 billion monthly bond purchase plan, the US dollar surges and the Euro heads south.
Elections As The Most Powerful Short-Term Cycle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What you don't know about politics could cost you plenty.
FAZ: Rising As Financials Decline
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3x Shares are beginning a bullish breakout as the financial sector stocks begin a pullback to support levels.
FXI Surges As China Axes A Tax
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Chinese stocks have been under enormous pressure since October, declining by almost 50% as represented on the Shanghai Composite Index ($SSEC). But could tax relief on equity trading stop the Chinese stock market from bleeding? The answer may be found on
Fear And Greed As Stock Market Indicators
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can we really gauge investor fear? What about greed? Turns out we may be able to.
Foreign Exchange As The Trader's Alternative by Mark Galant
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Foreign Exchange As The Trader's Alternative by Mark Galant Trading opportunities in the forex market deserve serious consideration as a diversification strategy for your portfolio. While online equities and futures trading have enjoyed exponential gro
Form And Pattern As A Trading Tool by Robert Miner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Form And Pattern As A Trading Tool by Robert Miner Pattern recognition has been the topic of much technical literature. From the Elliott wave theory to Edwards and Magee, traders have been told that some fairly well-defined chart patterns indicate the m
Fourier Transforms As An Aid To Decision-Making by Alok Srivastava
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (56-59, 63): Fourier Transforms As An Aid To Decision-Making by Alok Srivastava Interested in improving the performance of your indicators? It may be worth your while to gain an understanding of Fourier transforms, frequency
Fractal Dimension As A Market Mode Sensor
Hidden Investment Gems, As In Royalty Stocks
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The best investments are typically the ones that no one hears about until it's too late -- royalty stocks may be that kind of investment today.
Interview: Gavin McMaster: Living Life As An Options Trader
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You don't have to be an aggressive trader to make it as an options trader, says this "master" of options trading. After learning as much as he could about trading options, Gavin McMaster decided to take the task into his own hands and start trading optio
Interview: Trading Success As A Point Of Reference: Ari Kiev, M.D. by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading Success As A Point Of Reference: Ari Kiev, M.D. Ari Kiev started out working with suicidal patients before going on to work with athletes and now as a trader's coach. He is a management consult-ant to several trading firms and is the author of n
Intuitive Surgical: Bullish Gap Even As Earnings Decline
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Despite suffering a 35% decline in profits and an 11% slide in Q2 2014 revenues, shares of Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) have gapped higher by more than 10%.
Japanese Stocks: Potential Calamity Or Business As Usual? by Eric L. Sharp
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Japanese Stocks: Potential Calamity Or Business As Usual? by Eric L. Sharp Market calamities can be interesting, profitable and even fun to watch. We've had a few of our own in the U.S., with the savings and loan debacle and the junk bond market hijinks
LFUS As A Movie-Star Trade
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Strong stocks tend to stay strong; using a proven timing system can help minimize the risk of latching onto a stock that has already skyrocketed over the past year. LFUS is such an example.
Lumber As A Trader's Dream
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders need volatility to make money, and lumber has been offering large price moves in short time frames.
MAC: Bearish Divergence As Cycle High Nears
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Up by more than 36% in the past 14 weeks, shares of Macerich Co. are near an important cycle high.
Manulife Financial As A Ray Of Light In The Darkness?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How good is Manulife Financial?
Maxtor Consolidates As Head-and-Shoulders Formation Evolves
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Maxtor has a large inverse head-and-shoulders pattern working and looks ripe for a neckline test.
Mutual Funds As Stock Index Proxies by Joe Duarte
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Mutual Funds As Stock Index Proxies by Joe Duarte Both mutual funds and stock indices such as the Standard & Poor's 500 are collections of stocks, but the}e is a major difference between them. A mutual fund manager changes the stocks in his collection o
NYSE Bullish Percent As An S&P Indicator by Thomas J. Dorsey
New Sell Signal For DNR As Broad Market Tumbles
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Denbury Resources appear to only have just begun to initiate the second wave of a selloff that got under way in early April 2011.
Normalized Slope As A Measure Of Trend
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here is a sophisticated tool you can use to not only identify trends but also to help measure their significance. Formulas and functions that you can use in Excel to calculate it are provided for easy implementation
Options as a Strategic Investment
Price As A Trading Tool by Robert Miner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price As A Trading Tool by Robert Miner A complete approach to trading requires the trader to analyze the market from all perspectives. The three important dimensions of market activity are time, price and pattern. If a trader does not include all three
Put Options As A Hedge Against The Bear
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Many traders buy put options to hedge their positions against declining prices. Unlike short sellers, buyers of put options can limit losses more effectively, insofar as the put option buyer risks only the premium, the price of the option contract.
Qualcomm Bullish, Even As Nasdaq Corrects
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Qualcomm has been in a bull market since April 2004. It is outperforming the Nasdaq, even as the Nasdaq has corrected, thus proving the old Wall Street adage: there is always a bull market somewhere.
RSI As An Exit Tool by David Cartwright
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...RSI As An Exit Tool by David Cartwright Over the past 12 years of futures trading, I have taken a singular approach to the use of the relative strength index (see sidebar, ""RSI""). I have discovered that RSI is unreliable for market entry. For exiting
Relative Strength As A Selling Tool
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Relative strength is well known as a screening tool and a valuable component when it comes to making a buy decision. But what about using it for your sell decision?
S&P Tests Key Level As Investors Weigh Conflicting Macro Factors
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...I wrote this article following the close of play on September 24, after noticing a potentially bullish signal on the S&P 500 as well as some other key global indices, indicating that the recent sell-off may be about to come to an end.
Scalping As A Trading Style by Vadym Graifer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:10 (76-78): Scalping As A Trading Style by Vadym Graifer Scalping got a bad name during the 1998?2000 market boom, mostly thanks to the media. Does scalping really deserve the bashing? Scalpers inhabit an area of fairly small
Silver Breaks Out As Yields Dip
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is THIS the start of another major rally for silver after a lengthy consolidation?
Silver Lining For Metals On Coronavirus Outbreak As Yields Decline
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Silver looks ready to break higher again after its recent consolidation inside a falling wedge pattern.
Spread Prices As A Leading Indicator by Curtis McKallip Jr.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Spread Prices As A Leading Indicator by Curtis McKallip Jr. Commodities that are deliverable today trade at a different price than the very same commodity to be delivered in the future. This price differential is called a spread. Spreads exist because
Stocks Half As Volatile Now As In Great Crashes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The recent market turmoil feels like it is unprecedented in terms of volatility for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, but it's not even close to what traders experienced in 1987 or 1929.
Stocks Half As Volatile Now As In Great Crashes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The recent market turmoil feels like it is unprecedented in terms of volatility for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, but it's not even close to what traders experienced in 1987 or 1929.
Sustainable Investing As A Tool For Impact
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here, we present some thoughts from a young investor on the topics of sustainable investing and impact investing
The Hourly Liquidity Data Bank As A Tool For Day Traders by Donald L. Jones & C. Young
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Hourly Liquidity Data Bank As A Tool For Day Traders by Donald L. Jones & C. Young How hourly data from the Chicago Board of Trade's Liquidity Data Bank can help day traders manage their positions. A typical day trader takes a position and then wa
The Market As The Eye Of The Storm
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The market is trading like the eye of a storm -- calm and quiet -- but a typhoon of trading could be right around the corner, along with big profits.
The Volatility Index As A Forecasting Tool
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can the volatility index be used to predict market direction?
Time As A Trading Tool by Robert Miner
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Time As A Trading Tool by Robert Miner As a rule, most trading methodologies, or ""systems,"" simply approach market activity from a price perspective. But such an approach is incomplete; such an analysis of market activity is one-dimensional without th
Trading As A Business
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Get a different perspective by following these six principles.
Trading As Teamwork by Franz-J. Buskamp
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading As Teamwork by Franz-J. Buskamp If you were to ask Chicago trader Joseph Ritchie whether he sees himself as an individual trader or a team member, his reaction would probably be a tired smile. After all, he is a member of one of the most success
Trading Elliott Waves As Mechanical Systems
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...While there will always be subjective aspects to Elliott wave theory, there are also undeniable facts associated with the theory embodying some of its most profitable components. These facts can be used to trade the Elliott wave in an objective fashion
Treasury Bond Put Options As An Intermarket Gauge by Joe Duarte
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Treasury Bond Put Options As An Intermarket Gauge by Joe Duarte Here, ""Wall Street Detective"" editor Joe Duarte discusses using the Hines ratio, a sentiment indicator based on options activity, on the Treasury bond futures market as a trading tool for
Trendlines as a Technical Tool by Joe Luisi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...NOVICE TRADER Trendlines As A Technical Tool Applying trendlines to charts is a classic form of analysis. Here are some of the basics of using this tool. by Joe Luisi Trendlines, which are one of the most basic techniques in chart analysis, are line
Using A Trailing Stop As A Buy-Sell Signal
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using a trailing stop as a buy signal can prove highly profitable.
Using Options As Protection
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a look at using some basic option strategies to help mitigate your downside risk in a long stock position or upside risk when holding a covered call
V.14:6 (262-264) Employment As A Bond Market Forecast by Alex Saitta
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How good a barometer is the monthly US employment report for the bond market? One analyst decided to find out. By Alex Saitta The US employment report that the federal government releases on a monthly basis contains an assortment of data on many differe
Volatility As A Stock Bellwether
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In his last article, 'Is Trading That Simple?' Dan Zanger discussed some signature chart patterns and stocks that have been big winners. This time, he delves deeper into his composite approach to finding the right stocks at the right time.
Volume as a proxy for time by Robert Pisani
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volume as a proxy for time There are numerous ways to display the market information contained in Market Structure charts. The standard format consists of three parts (Figure 1): the Market Structure Histogram on the left side of the chart, volume at ea
WM: Elections As The Most Powerful Short-Term Cycle by Matt Blackman
WMB Gives Yet Another Buy Signal As Market Heats Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When the broad market finally gets in gear and starts to move in concert, it's amazing how similar the chart setups look in the various stocks that fire buy signals.
WTI Crude Weekly: Statistical & Structural Resistance Confluence Held As An Early Rally Failed
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this article, we examine the order flow and limit order book data in the WTI futures market that provides insight into breakout and its subsequent failure in Thursday, May 7, 2020's auction. Market structure and order flow provide insight into th
WTI Weekly: Balance Leads To Imbalance As Market Structure Provides Insight Into Pending Trend
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this article, we examine the order flow and limit order book data in the WTI futures market that provides insight into the breakout above key resistance and subsequent buy-side price discovery for Monday, August 19, 2019's auction. Market structu
WTI Weekly: Key Resistance Failed As Price Discovery Higher Developed To Statistical Resistance
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this article, we examine the order flow and limit order book data in the WTI futures market that provides insight into the buy-side continuation for Wednesday, March 4, 2020 which ultimately failed at statistical resistance. Market structure and order
WTI Weekly: Key Resistance Fails As Rally Continued To Statistical Resistance.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this article, we examine the order flow and limit order book data in the WTI futures market that provides insight into the breakout through key resistance and subsequent rally on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Market structure and order flow provide insig
WTI Weekly: Key Resistance Held As Sell Excess Formed, Driving Price Lower To Statistical Support.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this article, we examine the order flow and limit order book data in the WTI futures market that provides insight into the sell-side defense of key resistance and subsequent price discovery lower for Friday, December 20, 2019's auction. Market st
WTI Weekly: Key Support Fails As Correction Unfolds To Daily Statistical Support Target
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this article, we examine the order flow and limit order book data in the WTI futures market that provides insight into the buy-side continuation for Wednesday, March 17, 2020 which ultimately failed at statistical resistance. Market structure and orde
WTI Weekly: Prior Key Resistance Becomes Support As Rally Continued To Statistical Resistance.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this article, we examine the order flow and limit order book data in the WTI futures market that provides insight into the breakout through key resistance and subsequent rally on Friday, March 5, 2021. Market structure and order flow provide insight i
WTI Weekly: The $65 Option Wall Served As Support Into Late November.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this article, we examine the order flow and limit order book data in the WTI futures market that provides insight into the sell-off and subsequent rally at key support on Tuesday, November 30, 2021. Market structure and order flow provide insight into
WTI Weekly: The Iran Attacks Drive Price Higher, Then Lower As Market Structure And Order Flow Guide
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this article, we examine the order flow and market structure data in the WTI futures market that provides insight into initial breakout higher and subsequent price discovery lower for Wednesday, January 8, 2020 as the Iran attack narrative became know
Working Money: Relative Strength As A Selling Tool by Michael J. Carr, CMT
Working Money:Volatility As A Stock Bellwether by Dan Zanger and Matt Blackman
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