ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Testing a trading strategy depends on handling the data correctly. How do price shocks figure into the historical data
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bonds Vs. Stocks: A Historical View by Tom Hayes Relative value is a familiar buzzword when it comes to comparing bonds and stocks. But is it accurate? There are criteria that must be specified for comparisons, as Tim Hayes of Ned Davis Research Inc. po
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If you are trading some of the newer products such as ETFs or ETNs launched within the past several years, you may not have a lot of data with which to backtest. Here's a way around that
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Profiling the right stock is vital for you as a trader if you ever want to make stellar returns. Here's one stock that could be an "evergreen" stock.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Historical Movement Of The Stock Market by Michael J. Moody, C.M.T. Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. --Franklin P. Jones Perspective is critical for participants in the financial markets. Unfortunately, one's perspe
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Historical Patterns In The Long-Term Stock Market by James G. Arnold Stock markets have been around a long time, and historically, markets demonstrate some well-defined patterns. At some levels of averaging, one is even tempted to call the long-term mar
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A major bull run may form in the next six to 18 months, and you need three things to succeed.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A market tends to move swiftly from periods of price consolidation to new levels. Here's how to recognize the setup before a market moves out of a short-term consolidation, from the authors of Street Smarts: High Probability Short-Term Trading Strategies
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Many studies on seasonal tendencies of stocks have relied on a few decades' worth of activity. What does a century of data show? Can we glean additional insights? Here's a study that evaluates the performance of 12 industry groups over a period of over n
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...CALCULATING HISTORICAL VOLATILITY - Technical Analysis, Inc. Historical volatility is the annualized standard deviation of the one-day price changes of the security or futures contract. To perform this calculation in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (as ca
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...HISTORICAL MARKET TURNING POINTS The Kinsman smoothed A-D has caught major trend changes in the market well over the past two decades. The most recent of these: 1987 1 Selecting norms for 1987 was one of the more complicated exercises in using this os
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Historical Dow by Carl Sundquist Recently, The Wall Street Journal completed 94 years of continuous publication of the Dow Jones Industrial and Railroad (now Transportation) averages. Quite a record. Charles Dow, the first editor and founder of The
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.13:08 (345-347): Trending on a Historical Basis by Alex Saitta The question is as old as technical analysis itself: Does the market trend? Here's a method to determine the degree to which markets trend historically. In addition, there's a comparison o
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Position sizing is an often overlooked variable when it comes to strategizing your trades. There are different ways to decide how big your positions should be and here we look at a unique approach to size your positions using volatility