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  • A Head And Shoulders Top On The NASDAQ A/D Line?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The A/D line is an effective gauge in determining the overall strength of the stock market. It is by far the most commonly used measure of market breadth.

  • A New Advance-Decline Line by Daniel E. Downing

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A New Advance-Decline Line by Daniel E. Downing Here's a trading tool that uses a unique version of the daily advance-decline line of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). This version helps in our short- and long-term trading of index options and stock i

  • Advance Decline Line

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Advance Decline Line

  • Advance-Decline Line

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Advance-Decline Line

  • Advance-Decline Line Basics by Daniel E. Downing

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Advance-Decline Line Basics by Daniel E. Downing It never hurts to refresh your memory on the basics. Here's a primer on following the advance-decline line for the stock market. A stock investor who has just begun to analyze the stock market using tech

  • An Old Dominion Freight Line Buy Signal?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Old Dominion Freight Line has given me an RSI buy signal. Should we buy the stock now?

  • An advance/decline line for commodities by Thom Hartle

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An advance/decline line for commodities by Thom Hartle One of the first technical lessons in stock market investing is understanding the relationship between the movements of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and the advance/decline (A/D) line for

  • Battle Line

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock bulls hold important support.

  • Can you draw a straight line? by Ron Jaenisch

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can you draw a straight line? by Ron Jaenisch The stock market has reached record highs and the markets are dominated by large financial institutions with vast computer systems to aid them in their decision making. If the average investor turns to the e

  • December Crude Crosses The Line: New Highs And Negative Divergences

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A strong bull market in 2007 took December crude to levels not seen since August 2006. Is it time for crude to come in?

  • EnCana Corporation's Gap Line Breakout

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...EnCana Corp. (ECA) recently gapped above October's downtrend line, indicating the potential for higher prices in the near-term.

  • For PCLN, End Of The Line For Current Rally?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of Priceline.com have enjoyed an epic runup in price over the past few months. Is the current decline a buying opportunity or the start of a major trend reversal?

  • Ford's Piercing Line

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ford Motor has just completed the formation of a bullish piercing line candlestick pattern.

  • Forming A Dow Line

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Whether you are buying or selling, believe it or not, it's good to wait in line.

  • How Accurate Is The A/D Line? by Lawrence G. McMillan

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Accurate Is The A/D Line? by Lawrence G. McMillan Maybe not as accurate as you think. Here's one way to get more realistic results. For much of 2001 -- especially the first eight months of the year -- market technicians were often quoted as saying th

  • Interview: Samuel Eisenstadt Of Value Line by David Penn and John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Disproving The Efficient Market Theory Samuel Eisenstadt Of Value Line For more than 50 years, Samuel Eisenstadt has been one of the major reasons for the phenomenal success of Value Line, Inc., developers of the Value Line Ranking System. Eisenstadt i

  • Is Google On The Firing Line?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Not long after its launch in 2004, Google became a market leader. That trend remained intact through good times and bad. In 2010, it flashed a bearish head & shoulders top pattern that failed to hit the target, but it was a good trade nonetheless. It

  • Line Formations

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The line formation is one that illustrates a balance in the supply and demand equation. In other words, the buyers and sellers are equal in this congestion area.

  • Median Line Market Analysis by Thomas E. French

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Median Line Market Analysis by Thomas E. French The Median Line (ML) method of market analysis was first developed by Professor Alan Hall Andrews, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineering graduate. The Median Line technique of geometric

  • Median Line Support for Calpine Corp.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Median lines can act as good reversal points, as illustrated by Calpine Corp.

  • Mini-Median Line Pitchfork Identifies Trend Reversal

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In addition to developing the pitchfork formation, Alan Hall Andrews also developed a lesser-known pitchfork known as the mini-median line pitchfork. The mini-median line was Andrews' favorite, as it generated timely buy and sell signals in additio

  • Nasdaq A/D Line Holding Back

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The NASDAQ moved to a new reaction high in August, but the A/D line failed to confirm and remains well below its prior high.

  • Nasdaq A/D Line Lagging

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The August rally carried the Nasdaq to a new reaction high, but the A/D line was left holding the bag and formed a large negative divergence.

  • Old Dominion Freight Line, A Share To Watch

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Given that there are so many stocks, finding the best ones that make sound investments is not that easy.

  • S&P 500 Fails on the Third Fan Line (The Power of Three)

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The power of three is pervasive throughout many forms of technical analysis. Triple tops and bottoms, head and shoulder formations, fibonacci retracements (occurring in one third increments), three white soldiers and three black crows in candlestick term

  • SIDEBAR: TICK LINE MOMENTUM by Technical Analysis, Inc.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TICK LINE MOMENTUM by Technical Analysis, Inc. The daily closing tick is collected in column C in sidebar Figure 1. The first step is to smooth the daily closing values using a 10-period exponentially weighted moving average. To start this process, we n

  • SLV Breaches Important Support Line

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After undergoing a bullish breakout, the iShares Silver Trust formed an intermediate top.

  • Samuel Eisenstadt Of Value Line

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...For more than 50 years, Samuel Eisenstadt has been one of the major reasons for the phenomenal success of Value Line, Inc., developers of the Value Line Ranking System. Eisenstadt is research chairman, senior vice president, and a director of the company

  • Stock Market Bears Hold the One Yard Line

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The S&P 500 stops at important resistance and could be a top.

  • Stocks For The Long Term? Looking At Value Line

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Value Line Index shows that stocks have gone nowhere for 16 years, but traders have enjoyed sizable moves in both directions.

  • TWM Hits Median Line, So What Next?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Russell 2000 Inverse ETF has now hit the median line of the Andrews pitchfork but failed to hit its initial price target. What next? Should we expect TWM to reverse back down or continue up to hit its initial price target?

  • The 4% Model: Using The Value Line Composite by Bob Kargenian, C.M.T.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The 4% Model: Using The Value Line Composite by Bob Kargenian, C.M.T. Looking for an indicator that doesn't predict huge booms or busts, but tells you what the safest course of action is? Here it is. For this model, all you need is the Value Line Index.

  • The Advance-Decline Line

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is the current chart of the advance-decline line of the Dow Jones Industrial Average trying to tell us something?

  • The Advance-Decline Line Redux by Robert Kinsman

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.14:1 (29-33): The Advance-Decline Line Redux by Robert Kinsman The advance-decline line is an ongoing sum of the difference between the number of stocks closing higher minus the number of stocks closing lower each day. Here's a primer on how to use a

  • The Advance-Decline Line: NYSE, AMEX, And NASDAQ

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This indicator helps traders assess the participation in market moves, identifying market breadth.

  • The Advance/Decline Line by Mike Burk

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Advance/Decline Line by Mike Burk The advance/decline line, used with the volume percentage ratio and the new high/new low indicator, two indicators I've developed, helps me distinguish cycles in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and other ind

  • The Andrews Line by Ron Jaenisch

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Andrews Line by Ron Jaenisch Here's a charting method to determine market trend and identify reversal points to set up trading opportunities. When Alan Hall Andrews taught investors how to use what is now referred to as the Andrews pitchfork charti

  • The Cumulative Market Thrust Line by Tushar S. Chande, Ph.D.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Cumulative Market Thrust Line by Tushar S. Chande, PhD. STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor Tushar Chande originally introduced the concept of market thrust in August 1992 as a method by which to overcome the limitations of the Arms index. Since then,

  • The Green Line

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Knowing when to exit a trade can work wonders for your trading returns. Here's one tool that can help you make that critical decision

  • The Real Advance Decline Line by Frank Barbera Jr., C.M.T.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Real Advance Decline Line by Frank Barbera Jr., C.M.T. Each day, stock market analysts calculate the number of stocks closing up versus the number of stocks closing down, resulting in the advance-decline line. This simple arithmetic exercise can hel

  • The Value Line Arithmetic Index

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What can the Value Line Arithmetic Index tell us about stocks?

  • Value Line Arithmetic And Geometric Indexes

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In my September 22nd article, "Analyzing The S&P 500 Index Using Gann," I concluded that the index is due for a major correction, and that the US economy will inevitably collapse. It is simply waiting for a trigger to set it off. Figures 1

Value Line Fund Analyzer, version 1.1

  • Value Line Index Bullish

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Martin Zweig wrote about the importance of the Value Line Index in the 1980s. It remains a useful indicator.

  • Value Line Index Points To Broad Market Gains

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Value Line Index offers a useful way to monitor market breadth and confirm the major trends.

  • Working Money: Forming A Dow Line by David Penn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Forming A Dow Line by David Penn Whether you are buying or selling, believe it or not, it's good to wait in line. One of the most common aspects of chart reading, the notion of buying or selling breakouts from congestion, has its roots i







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