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  • 10 Challenges Facing A Market Rebound

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can technical traders safely ignore these 10 fundamental obstacles?

  • 2K Market Deja Vu - Good News, Bad Action

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How markets interpret news tells much about underlying investor sentiment. Bull markets ignore bad news. Bear markets ignore good news. It appears that of late, we may have fallen back into the latter category once again. For those in the bull camp, this

  • A 10-Year Overview Of Market Sentiment by Joe Duarte, M.D.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A 10-Year Overview Of Market Sentiment by Joe Duarte, M.D. Crowd psychology plays a role in the development of market tops and bottoms. In theory, a bottom forms when the majority of investors are extremely pessimistic, and a top occurs when the investo

  • A Bull Market in Gold?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The spring of 2002 should feature a battle between a year-old bull and a six-year old bear.

  • A Change in Market Direction

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The market is now making its eighth change in direction in 23 months. It is heading down for a short while, and this will be the time to take your long positions.

  • A Double Bottom Pattern For Market Vectors Nuclear Energy ETF

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After a 62% plunge since the May high, the Market Vectors Nuclear Energy ETF appears to have formed a double bottom on its daily chart.

  • A Five-Step Market Portfolio

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a simple five-step investment process that can help you participate in the market without paying those exorbitant mutual fund or manager fees and limiting downside risk.

  • A Hybrid System For Market Timing by Mark B. Fishman and Dean S. Barr

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Hybrid System For Market Timing by Mark B. Fishman and Dean S. Barr Hybrid technologies are perhaps the most-investigated topic in artificial intelligence today and here's how to apply the subject to trading. In two recent articles in STOCKS & COMMO

  • A Long Trade In A Declining Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Even as the market averages move into bear market territory, long trades can be found using technical trading strategies.

  • A Market Bottom Pattern for S&P Futures by Tushar S. Chande

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Market Bottom Pattern for S&P Futures by Tushar S. Chande The S&P futures market is dominated by anti-trend traders. It's a fact: It's a tough market to trade using trend-following approaches. But if you can't beat 'em, why not join 'em? The trading

  • A Market Crash

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The stock market is in a major correction. What now?

A Market Maker's Perspective by Don Bright

  • A New Market Index by Dan Downing

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A New Market Index by Dan Downing Technicians are always looking for leading indices and indicators. We continually search for tools that will give us some advanced warning of the direction of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or the Options Excha

  • A New Utility Average Stock Market System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A New Utility Average Stock Market System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D. This month, Meyers uses a daily indicator based on the Dow Jones Utility Average as a market timing system for the Standard & Poor's 500 index. In the August 1995 STOCKS & COMMODITIES,

  • A Rectangle In The Broad Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Value Line Index is understudied but one of the broadest measures of the stock market. Right now, it seems to be breaking out of a rectangle.

  • A Stock Market On The Verge Of Collapse

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There are four basic analytical tools an analyst uses to measure the health of an individual stock or the stock market as a whole. One is price patterns, one is momentum, another is volume, and the final one is breadth. By using these four tools we can n

  • A Tale Of Two Macro Market Valuation Indicators

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks have continued to rally despite the calls for a correction from pundits. But how much more room have they got to run?

  • A Technical Description Of Market Data For Traders

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What is the nature of market data? What wisdoms can be gained from studying it? Here is a brief summary of research into the nature of market data, from someone who has spent decades researching it, testing it, and trading it. Included is a technique to

  • AAPL Bull Market Topping

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Statistical analysis shows Apple Inc. in a long-term topping process, whereas the shorter-term analysis shows that Apple has already reversed downward.

  • Adapting Moving Averages To Market Volatility by Tushar S. Chande, Ph.D.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Adapting Moving Averages To Market Volatility by Tushar S. Chande, Ph.D. If a market is active, it has volatility: that cannot be avoided. And because the market is continuously changing, an indicator that attempts to predict market activity must itself

  • Alcoa Bear Market Begins

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Long-term statistical analysis shows that Alcoa has entered into a primary bear market.

  • Alcoa Bear Market Resumes

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This analysis shows that Alcoa has now completed its bear market consolidation and has resumed its primary bear market trend.

  • Alcoa Bull Market Is Ending

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Long-term statistical analysis shows that the bull market in Alcoa is coming to an end.

  • Amazon Is About To Take The Market Higher

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Pent-up consumer demand and a massive liquidity injection are about to fuel the greatest bull run you've ever seen with Amazon leading the way

  • An Interesting Macro Market Risk Indicator

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As a number of macro indicators have hit extremes of late, here is another interesting signal to consider.

  • An Updated Market Outlook

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In today's world, it may seem as though computer-generated trading should have removed most of the human emotion from the market, which could mean that classic wave patterns no longer apply. But that may not be the case. Here's why

  • An assist in market timing by Irving Lehren

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An assist in market timing by Irving Lehren Determining turning points and changes in the stock market often requires looking back at how the market reacted under similar circumstances. But aberrations occur in most cycles and a trader must formulate so

  • Analyzing the Market for a Winner

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A strategy to find a winner in the market using price and volume.

  • Anatomy of a Stock Market Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Patterns from four stock market peaks could reveal the near future.

  • Another Sign Of A Market Top?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On February 15, my Traders.com Advantage article discussed the soaring S&P 500 and a falling VIX, which together with eurodollar futures and some other indicators pointed to a top in US stocks. Here is another reason for concern.

  • Apple -- A Market Leader At A Critical Level

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Over the past year, shares of Apple doubled. With its stock price sitting right at a trendline, this market leader should be watched for clues on the short-term direction of the market.

  • Arbitrary But True: Hidden Influences On The Stock Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...However exhaustive your research, there are forces at work that you may not expect.

  • Are Bond Yields The Canary In The Equity Market?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The flow of capital can show you where the next big macrotrend will appear, but only if you know how to use bond yields to time your trade.

  • Are Market Challenges Rising?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This market has been a little tougher than usual to trade. Bulls are claiming the bottom has been put in, while bears say there is worse to come. Based on these next indicators, the bears have probability on their side.

  • Are Utilities Signaling A Higher Stock Market?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The utilities market sector continues to underperform the Standard & Poor's 500. Does this signal higher prices ahead for the broader stock market?

  • Array Solar - Another New Solar Company Hits The Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's been a busy year for new solar entrants. How many will survive and thrive remains to be seen.

  • Artificial Intelligence And Market Analysis by Mark B. Fishman, Dean S. Barr and Walter J. Loick

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Artificial Intelligence And Market Analysis by Mark B. Fishman, Dean S. Barr and Walter J. Loick Markets are chaotic and their randomness is real but intermittent; we can approach the development of trading systems with that assumption. We can also assu

  • 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.

  • At The Close: Sugar: Beyond The Bear Market by John Rose

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At The Close: Sugar: Beyond The Bear Market by John Rose Sugar: Beyond The Bear Market On May 9, 2006, the New York Board of Trade sponsored its first sugar convention in New York City. The event was well attended, and many of the major players in the

  • Auction Market Theory And The Longer Time Frame by Donald Jones

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Auction Market Theory And The Longer Time Frame by Donald Jones Last issue, I provided an overview of Auction Market Theory. Two important facts should be kept in mind as I discuss the next stage, applying the theory: First, markets are not correlated o

  • Avon Products Weak Despite Strong Market Rebound

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After a market has a strong rebound rally, it might pay to be alert to those stocks that are lagging behind.

  • BAND Offers Hope In A Hopeless Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There are shifts in how business will be done going forward and this company is in a position to lead.

  • BID-ding Down The Market?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sotheby's has proven to be a reliable proxy of a bubble in markets, and it's just taken another hit.

  • BOOK REVIEW: Commodity Market Money Management by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...BOOK REVIEW: Commodity Market Money Management by John Sweeney Commodity Market Money Management by Fred Gehm John Wiley & Sons, 1983 One Wiley Drive Somerset, New Jersey. Price: $37.95 There are really two sides to trading: the idea and the execut

  • Balance Of Market Power by Igor Livshin

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Balance Of Market Power by Igor Livshin Who's in charge, bulls or bears? It doesn't take higher-order math to get a good reading. The balance of market power (BMP) indicator measures the strength of the bulls vs. the bears by assessing the ability of e

  • Balance of Market Power (Part I of III)

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What is this indicator? Does it work? Something new or just a different look at what you might have already observed?

  • Balance of Market Power (Part II of III)

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What is this indicator? Does it work? Something new or just a different look at what you might have already observed?

  • Balance of Market Power (Part III of III)

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What is this indicator? Does it work? Something new or just a different look at what you might have already observed?

  • Bear Market Bottoms

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can history help us recognize the end of the bear market before it arrives?

  • Bear Market Investing

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bear markets can be scary, but they can also be profitable.

  • Bear Market Isn't Over Yet

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Depending upon how the Fibonacci retracement tool is used, there is a range of possible support areas that could turn the S&P 500 back upward. However, what we need to be looking for is a trend reversal pattern.

  • Bear Market Rallies

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A look at upward second Elliott waves and the springtime terror of the bears.

  • Bear Market Rallies and their Discontents

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS..."It's just an oversold rally ... a bear market rally is all ..."

  • Bear Market Strategies

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here is a reliable trading method to trade when the bears begin to show their teeth.

  • Bear Market Survival Kit by Anthony Trongone, PhD, CFP, CTA

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bear Market Survival Kit by Anthony Trongone, PhD, CFP, CTA Any system can produce stellar results when it suggests taking a position in the same direction of a trending market. But what do you do when the market quickly changes direction? Few if any

  • Bear Market Vanguard

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See which stocks are leading the way down in the emerging bear market.

  • Bearish Months For The Stock Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Could September and October 2019 be down months for US stocks?

  • Beat the Market with Cyclicals by Paul and Carole Huebotter

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...""The new Dow strategy"" outlined here is a method to pick a 10-stock portfolio to outperform both the Dow 30 and the well-known Dow dividend strategy. Take a look. by Paul and Carole Huebotter Economists maintain that the markets are too efficient for

  • Beat the market with no-load mutual funds by Gary Zin, Ph.D.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Beat the market with no-load mutual funds by Gary Zin, Ph.D. In the past, I have invested in mutual funds based on their long-term performance, typically requiring that a fund's five-year history exceed the compounded return of Standard & Poor's 500-sto

  • Beating The Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is it possible? Here's a simple trend-following approach that can beat the market over time and should be considered as part of any investor's plan.

  • Beating The Market With An Expert Trading System by Jerry Felsen

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Beating The Market With An Expert Trading System by Jerry Felsen A mathematically provable trading system (MPTS) can be defined as a trading method for which superior expected performance can be proved scientifically. I measure system performance by mea

  • Birth of a Crude Oil Bull Market?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Evidence from all four market dimensions imply a bull market has begun for Crude Oil.

  • Bitcoin Relationship To The US Stock Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Both markets could be approaching blowoff tops. Speculative forces can sometimes be so powerful they transcend more than one market. Since March 2020, Bitcoin in US dollars (BTCUSD) and the S&P 500 (SPX) have traded closely together. Evidence in

  • Boeing Bear Market Begins

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Boeing sells out to the bears.

  • Bond Bull Market Begins

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Statistical analysis shows that Treasury Bonds have now entered into a newly established long-term bull market trend.

  • Bond Market Correction Ahead

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Long-term statistical analysis shows that the bond market will continue higher, but shorter-term analysis shows a correction straight ahead.

  • Bond Market Timing Revisited by Jay Kaeppel

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bond Market Timing Revisited by Jay Kaeppel Here's an update of this author's article from August 1994 on trading bond funds using Barron's Gold Mining Index as an indicator. In addition, take a look at a new version of that model, as well as informatio

  • Bonds and Stock Market Bottoms

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Will a test of the spring highs for the 10-year Treasury also help establish a bottom in the S&P?

  • Broad Market Bullish

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using the Value Line index allows us to see how the broad market is doing, and right now, that is potentially bullish.

  • Bull And Bear Market Analysts

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A little sage advice from the 1920s and 1930s.

  • Bull and Bear Market Crashes

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Do the market implosion of 1987 and the subsequent rally hold any lessons for investors in the current equity downturn?

  • Bullish Percent is a Good Barometer of the Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The bullish percent is the percentage of stocks that are on buy signals at any given point in time. By watching for certain patterns, investors can interpret what type of market - bull or bear - we are in before it is too late.

  • Buying In A Confusingly Awful Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS..."When in doubt, stay out." So goes the saying, and with markets as confusing as they are now, this is probably the best strategy to take.

  • CMG: Market Chipping Away At Recent Gains

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When a fundamentally sound stock experiences violent daily price action, a closer look is in order.

  • COBWEB DYNAMICS: Microeconomic Basis for Technical Stock Market Analysis by Kent Kachigan

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...COBWEB DYNAMICS: Microeconomic Basis for Technical Stock Market Analysis by Kent Kachigan Introduction For many years, investors, analysts and economists have been debating whether the theories developed by technical stock market analysts have their fo

  • COT Indicator Says Market Still A Buy

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As non-priced based indicators go, the Commitment of Traders' positions are as good as some, better than most. The indicator gave a buy signal on the S&P 500 in early October that was confirmed to still be in force by this week's data.

  • Calling The Tune In The Gold Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Just about everyone seems to be aware of the longrunning uptrend in the gold market, one that is now about 10 years old. Gold market traders, on the other hand, realize that the shorter-term swings and cycles in this highly emotional commodity are

  • Can Financials Provide Warning Of A Market Top?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In past market tops, the financial sector has turned down first. It happened in the October 1987 meltdown and again at the 2000 top. So how has the financial sector been doing lately?

  • Can Members Of Congress Beat The Market?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The US Congress passed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012, commonly known as the STOCK Act, to help curb potential or apparent trading by members of Congress based on inside or confidential information they may possess. But have memb

  • Can Technical Factors Gauge What Works In The Stock Market? by Mark Vakkur

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can Technical Factors Gauge What Works In The Stock Market? by Mark Vakkur In the second part of this series we look at the technical factors you can use to gauge the magnitude and direction of the trends in the S&P 500. Using only month-tomonth, close

  • Can The GDP Move The Market Higher?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The latest GDP numbers are now out and they were better than expected. Investors are starting to get optimistic about the economy, but will the positive GDP data move the stock market higher?

  • Can You Predict the Market?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You may not be a rocket scientist, but you'd feel like one if you could see the downturns and upturns in the market, using this form of analysis.

  • Candlesticks And Intraday Market Analysis by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Candlesticks And Intraday Market Analysis by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny Can the much-ballyhooed candlestick method be helpful in intraday trading? To find out, Gary Wagner and Brad Matheny went through one day's trading via candlesticks for o

  • Candlesticks and the Malaysian Stock Market by Gary S. Wagner, Bradley L. Matheny and F.Tam

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Candlesticks and the Malaysian Stock Market by Gary S. Wagner, Bradley L. Matheny and F.Tam Here's a look at how candlestick technique is applied to the Malaysian stock market, from the developers of Candlestick Forecaster and the director of PI Capital

  • Catching Profitable Market Opportunities By Harnessing Dominant Trends

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a strategy for forex trading that uses moving averages alongside critical price levels to identify trading opportunities as major trends develop

  • Caterpillar Bear Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Caterpillar beaten down by the bears?

  • Changing tides in the investment software market by Thomas A. Rorro

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Changing tides in the investment software market by Thomas A. Rorro Remarkably, the investment software industry is on the threshold of a major transition. In the near future, it will no longer be economical to buy investment software. Instead you will

  • Chaos theory and market behavior by Bernd Anders

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Chaos theory and market behavior by Bernd Anders Chaos, in the original Greek, describes the primal condition--a w translation that means ""confuwsion"" as well as ""reality."" With this one word, the ancients captured what they intuitively knew about th

  • Chart The Market, Control Your Future

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Take control of your 401(k) by using this form of analysis.

  • Chart The Market, Control Your Future (II)

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With a few charts and this simple technique, you can manage your 401(k).

Charting The Market by David Penn

Charting The Market by David Penn

  • Charting The Market by David Penn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (99-100): Charting The Market by David Penn GAPS Are gaps to technical analysts what stock splits are to fundamental analysts: clear evidence of a market event, the significance of which is often inversely related to the l

  • Charting The Market by David Penn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (58-61): Charting The Market by David Penn Writing in Commodities Magazine back in 1980, technical analyst Donald Lambert observed that: Many commodities exhibit some type of cyclical or seasonal price pattern. But the com

  • Charting The Market by David Penn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charting The Market by David Penn ON-BALANCE VOLUME Interviewed by BusinessWeek magazine late in the spring of 2002, legendary market forecaster and technical analyst Joseph Granville was asked, "Does technical analysis still work?" The journalist fur

  • Charting The Market by David Penn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charting The Market by David Penn Here's a new section showing some recent news events and accompanying market shifts. Coincidence? You decide.

  • Charting The Market by David Penn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charting The Market by David Penn Here's a sample MICEX chart showing some news events in 2002 and accompanying market shifts. Coincidence? You decide.

  • Charting The Market by David Penn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (88-89, 107): Charting The Market by David Penn WHEN SELLERS SELL OUT Writing about "The Selling Climax" in Technical Analysis Of Stock Trends, authors Robert Edwards and John Magee observe that: Most true Selling Climaxes

  • Charting The Market by David Penn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charting The Market by David Penn TRENDLINES First job? first car? first love? There is always something to be said for what comes first. Even if your first job was as stimulating as manual labor on a Virginia plantation, your first car an always-broke

  • Charting The Market by David Penn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charting The Market by David Penn TRIX Long, long ago, in a bull market era that now seems far, far away (that is, 1983), a technical analyst by the name of Jack K. Hutson was trying to tease out of his computer a solution to the "drudgery" of trading.

  • Charting The Market by David Penn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charting The Market by David Penn MOVING AVERAGES If trendlines are the first thing that most traders and technical analysts learn to do with a chart, moving averages are perhaps a close second. Rereading swing trader Dave Landry's commentary about a m

  • Charting The Market by David Penn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:6 (90-91): Charting The Market by David Penn SUPPORT AND RESISTANCE Among the first things anyone who studies technical analysis learns is the role that support and resistance play in market price action. Why does a collapse in the price of cattl

  • Charting The Market by David Penn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (70-71): Charting The Market by David Penn CHANNELLING If one trendline is good, are two trendlines better? That's one way of summing up the attraction many people have with channeling and trend channels. A technician coul

  • Charting The Market by David Penn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Charting The Market by David Penn THE RELATIVE STRENGTH INDEX Writing about his relative strength index (RSI) in 1978, J. Welles Wilder noted five different ways that the indicator could be helpful to investors and traders. These include identifying to

Charting The Market by David Penn

  • Charting The Market: Piercing Patterns by David Penn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (62, 83): Charting The Market: Piercing Patterns by David Penn Writing about dual candle lines in his book ""Beyond Candlesticks,"" Steve Nison recalls a particularly vivid (and metaphoric) description of a "piercing pattern

  • Charting The Market: Stochastics by David Penn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:4 (120-121): Charting The Market: Stochastics by David Penn STOCHASTICS For many technicians, stochastics are the first real oscillator to be encountered when embarking on the study of technical analysis. Unlike some of the m

  • Charting The Market: Swing Rule by David Penn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:4 (10-15): Charting The Market: Swing Rule by David Penn What do the measuring rule for double bottoms, head & shoulders tops and bottoms, cups with handles, double tops, rectangle bottoms and tops, ascending and descending tr

  • Charting The Market: Triangles by David Penn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:1 (124-125): Charting The Market: Triangles by David Penn TRIANGLES Writing about triangles as significant patterns in technical analysis, trader, author, and educator John Murphy observes that: ""? The triangle is usually a

  • Chevron Begins Long-Term Bear Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Long-term statistical analysis shows Chevron starting a new long-term downward trend.

  • Clues To Market Direction With The S&P 500 Premium by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, CFA

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Clues To Market Direction With The S&P 500 Premium by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, CFA Need a clue to short-term market direction? The premium between the Standard & Poor's 500 futures and the corresponding cash index may help, provided you understand how it i

  • Combining Volume And Market Change by Anthony J. Macek

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Combining Volume And Market Change by Anthony J. Macek Price and volume is a never-ending fount of ideas for judging the market's current technical condition. Here, S&C author and newsletter publisher Anthony Macek combines the magnitude and direction o

  • Commodity Market Ready For A Correction

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Statistical analysis is used to show that the commodity market remains in a long-term uptrend, but that it is ready to correct for its recent gains.

  • Commodity Market Trend Change Warning

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Statistical analysis is used to show that a warning has been given of primary change in the trend of the direction of the commodity market.

  • Commodity-Linked ETFs Still Outperforming Broad Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Compared to most other stock industry groups, commodity-linked ETFs are still standing tall. Are good trading opportunities still available here?

  • Comparing Market And Volatility Index Momentums, Part 3

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In part 1, we looked at using a momentum oscillator to compare the momentums of two markets for insights into those markets. In part 2, we looked at comparing the momentums of different stock market indexes. In this third and final part, we look at compa

  • Comparing The Momentums Of Stock Market Indexes, Part 2

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Last month in part 1, we looked at using an oscillator based on momentum to compare the momentums of two markets on a chart for insights into those markets. In this part, we'll look at what centerline crossovers tell us about the state of the overall sto

  • Compound Pivots And Market Symmetry by William T. Erman

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Compound Pivots And Market Symmetry by William T. Erman Many traders see only simple symmetry such as a 20-week bottom-to-bottom move followed by another. Unfortunately, if indeed there is another 20-week cycle, it could very well turn out to be 18 week

  • Computers and Market Analysis by Gregory L. Morris

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are you just starting out as a technical trader? Or are you a veteran who wouldn't mind a refresher course on the basics? Here's a primer for the novice and a reminder for the veteran covering points of interest, including computer hardware, software and

  • Constellation Energy Group And A Low Risk In A Volatile Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With the market having lost nearly 10% in recent weeks, safety should be a consideration for all investors.

  • Corner The Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Corner The Market Many instructive articles and major works in the field of technical analysis and speculation lie undisturbed on dusty back shelves, or have fallen into obscurity because they are no longer in print. As a unique feature of this magazine

  • Crude Oil And Stock Market Connection

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The relationship of Crude Oil and Stocks could reveal economic weakness.

  • Cyber Market Chats

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Communication about the market may be our greatest strength these days, especially on the Internet. A professional trader takes a quick look at just a little of what's out there.

  • Cyclicals Lead Market Higher

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Amex Cyclicals Index recently broke to a new 52-week high, and this bodes well for the overall market.

  • Danger! Market Breadth Is Deteriorating!

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Remember the robot from the 1960s classic TV show, "Lost in Space"? The robot always gave warnings, using phases like "Warning!" and "Danger!" Market breadth is the B-9 robot in technical analysis. It warns us when danger is

  • Dawn of the Bear Market?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Deep retracements of stock indices could be the start of a larger decline.

  • Daytrading With Market Value by Donald L. Jones

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:5 (16-23): Daytrading With Market Value by Donald L. Jones Markets are complex, self-regulating, and driven by feedback. The message is clear: Decipher the feedback to understand your market. How can you understand the market

  • Death of a Bull Market?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How to trade US stocks at the beginning of 2019.

  • December Patterns And The Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...December brings presents in the form of a strong pattern that runs up the market for quick profits.

  • Designing A System To Survive A Bear Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Designing a winning trading system, one that can survive a bear market as well as thrive during a bull market, takes a great deal of planning, testing, and self-examination.

  • Designing Trading Systems For The Stock Market by Roger Altman, Ph.D.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Designing Trading Systems For The Stock Market by Roger Altman, Ph.D. System designers are aware that the traditional methods used to select parameter values are prone to overfitting. What, then, can be done about it? Stocks & Commodities Roger Altman p

Develop Your Own Market Lens by Brett Grendahl

  • Developing A Model With Auction Market Theory by Donald L. Jones

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Developing A Model With Auction Market Theory by Donald L. Jones Here's an intraday trading model that uses auction market theory. A tenet of auction market theory is the unpredictability of the markets. An auction market model is built from market kno

  • Developing An Expert System To Forecast The Stock Market by Mike Flanagan, Ph.D.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Developing An Expert System To Forecast The Stock Market by Mike Flanagan, Ph.D. Nowadays, computers are often used to develop rule-based trading strategies. Frequently, these rules will be based on work provided by experts; such rule-based models are g

  • Diagnosing market tops by Thomas Aspray

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Diagnosing market tops by Thomas Aspray In the June 1988 issue of Stocks & Commodities, I discussed a few of the more than 250 indicators that I use for stock market timing. I applied these indicators to some of the recent stock market bottoms. In this

  • Diffusion Index Suggests Market Reversal Ahead

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Dow Jones Industrial Average diffusion index suggests that a market reversal lays ahead. However, until volatility increases the Dow could continue to move higher.

  • Discovering Market Tops With Fibonacci Extensions

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See how major peaks could be found months, or years, in advance.

  • Do Cycles Exist in the Market? by John F. Ehlers

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This longtime S&C contributor explains the basis of the existence of cycles in market data. The markets are not always efficient; this is why trading decisions based on technical analysis work. Chart patterns that are discernible, technical events such

  • Dodge Your Own Market Disaster

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There's no foolproof method of avoiding a market meltdown, but there are some steps you can take to dramatically reduce the possibility of getting caught in the conflagration.

  • Does The Market Have A Personality? by James Kellndorfer

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does The Market Have A Personality? by James Kellndorfer Here's a look at how you can convert the NYSE's tick into a sentiment indicator using statistical analysis. Along with the other US stock exchanges, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) provides in

  • Dow Industrials Enter Primary Bear Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Long-term statistical analysis shows the Dow Jones Industrial Average entering a primary bear market.

  • Dow Theory Says Market Correction Is Over

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The corrective rally for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is now over and a new downward trend is being established. However, this new downward trend remains unconfirmed but will be, once the Dow theory has been satisfied.

  • Dow Transports Enter Bear Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Long-term statistical analysis shows the Dow Jones Transportation Average entering a primary bear market.

  • Earnings Season: Reward And Punishment In The Stock Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...At times, the stock market is upside down when good earnings make stocks plummet and bad news makes stocks rally, but if you know three things to look for, you'll pick more winners.

  • Elliott - Stock Market - Third Waves

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See what message this pattern implies for US stocks.

  • Elliott Wave dilemma: Bull or bear market? by C. R. MacDowell

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Elliott Wave dilemma: Bull or bear market? by C. R. MacDowell The Elliott Wave Theory, while complex and subject to individual interpretation, offers a powerful means of putting the overall market developments into reasonable perspective and provides so

  • Emerging Market ETFs

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Emerging market stocks and ETFs appear to finally be coming out of a multiyear decline. Historically, such a rise has typically been followed by a multiyear advance. Given that historical pattern, six broad-based emerging market ETFs are reviewed here to

  • End Game for the Stock Market?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Time cycles and momentum hint the bull market could be nearing an end.

  • Energy Stock Bull Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is the five-year energy stock bear market finished?

  • Estimating the Market Profile Value Area for intraday trading by Donald L. Jones

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Estimating the Market Profile Value Area for intraday trading by Donald L. Jones T he prime question for every trader is whether to get into a market, or if in, whether to stay in or get out. Since these questions must be decided on the basis of inadequ

  • Euro Index Hits A Milestone, Warning Of A Possible US Market Turn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Euro Index bounce could reflect the US Dollar Index and the major US indexes topping.

  • Even In A Bear Market, Opportunity Abounds

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Think it's difficult to make money in a bear market? Turn that frown upside down -- use the dips like rallies with put options.

  • Event Trading in the Bond Market by Ben Warwick

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Event Trading In The Bond Market by Ben Warwick The financial markets frequently react with large price movements after the government and private agencies release their economic reports. Are there any reliable patterns to the way a market reacts to the

  • Exploiting The Holidays With The Stock Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Yes, Virginia, there is (still) a Santa Claus rally. And more!

  • Exploiting The Holidays With The Stock Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Yes, Virginia, there is (still) a Santa Claus rally. And more!

  • FBIOX Leading The Market Higher

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Despite having suffered a sudden pullback in April 2012, shares of Fidelity Select Biotechnology have gone on to make new highs.

  • 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.

  • Fed Policy And The Stock Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fed Policy And The Stock Market Revisiting Gould's Rule by George A. Schade Jr. On February 24, 1989, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York raised its discount rate to 7% and triggered the most recent signal of the ""three steps and a stumble"" rule. The

  • Final Countdown for the Stock Bull Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See why the bottom made on September 14, 2016 could signal the end of the bull market.

  • Financial Market To Lead Broader Market Up

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The financial market looks as if it is ready to turn higher, indicating that the broader stock market could turn higher as well within the next few months, if not sooner.

  • Financial Market To Lead Broader Market Up

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The financial market looks as if it is ready to turn higher, indicating that the broader stock market could turn higher as well within the next few months, if not sooner.

  • Financial Sector Leads Broader Stock Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There are many ways to determine if the stock market is at or near a major market bottom. One way is by looking at the financial sector. Turns in the financial sector normally lead turns in the broader stock market.

  • Find Those Market Tops by David Hawkins

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Find Those Market Tops by David Hawkins When is a rally just a rally, and when is it the end of a bear market? The long-term bear market that started in the year 2000 has been punctuated by several intermediate-term rallies, each of which, so far, has

  • Finding Buys In A Bear Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As markets continue to plummet and volatility increases, stocks in tight trading ranges can offer safety and potential upside.

  • Flexible Market Forecast by Michael Kahn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It is important to be flexible in your market forecasts, as this walk through some recent trends in various markets indicate. That repetitive price patterns exist is one of the foundations of technical analysis. The reasoning is that repetitive pattern

  • Follow The Market Herd With Elliott Wave

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If we can figure out what happened in the past, we can figure out what could happen in the future.

  • Ford Leads Market Lower

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A confirmed head & shoulders top and relative weakness point to lower prices for Ford Motor Co.

  • Forecasting A Market Recovery After A 10% (Or More) Correction

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market declines can cause the powerful emotions of fear and greed to take over our decision-making abilities. When you notice that happening, try to think rationally

  • Forecasting Market Turns Using Static And Dynamic Cycles by Brad Swancoat and Ed Kasanjian

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forecasting Market Turns Using Static And Dynamic Cycles by Brad Swancoat and Ed Kasanjian Who hasn't heard of Fibonacci ratios by now, but to actually use them in predicting market turns? Here, two software developers give novice and veteran technician

  • Forecasting The Financial Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Wouldn't it be nice to be able to accurately forecast stock price activity? Realistically, if that were possible, financial markets wouldn't exist.

  • Forecasting the market with the overbought/oversold indicator by Steven B. Achelis

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forecasting the market with the overbought/oversold indicator by Steven B. Achelis The terms ""overbought"" and ""oversold"" are often used to discuss market conditions. However, as anyone who has placed a short trade simply on the basis that the market

Forex Focus: Hedging Against A Bear Market by Matthew Caruso

  • Four Market Leaders Under Pressure But For How Long?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Since bottoming in late 2008 a few tech giants have for the most part led the market. But this leadership began to break down in 2013. Does it signal a changing of the guard?

  • Four Measures Of Market Volatility by Frederic Ruffy

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Four Measures Of Market Volatility by Frederic Ruffy How do you read the CBOE's new measures of volatility? Find out here. The CBOE volatility index (VIX) was last modified in September 2003. The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) reconstructed the

  • Four Signs Of A Market Breakdown

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market breakdowns occur as fast as you can blink, but if you know the signs of a breakdown, you can emerge a winner.

  • Fourier Series Model Of The Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders are aware that cyclical activity can be observed in market data. Here's a way to use a Fourier series indicator to model the market and describe cyclic market activity so you can develop realistic trading strategy rules for swing trades

Fractal Dimension As A Market Mode Sensor

  • Friday Market Tamer

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fridays are usually quiet for currency traders, unless some fundamentals are released. But there is one strategy that can take advantage of the unpredictable nature of the markets on Fridays. Find out how to trade it

  • From WW III To Bear Market Lead By RNG

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is this the beginning of global meltdown? And, will RNG lead the way?

  • GM Giving Early Market Warning?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The four-month rule relies on the premise that what is good for GM is good for America. It also says that GM leads the market down at market tops. Are we at one now?

  • Gaming The Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...For some, trading in the market can be like betting in a casino, but here are some casino stocks that are definitely worth betting on.

  • Gann's Stock Market Mathematics

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A self-promoting charlatan or stock market scientist? Whatever he was, W.D. Gann's ideas have withstood time with their originality and insight.

  • Genentech Firms Amid Market Weakness

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The major stock indexes got clobbered in May and June, but Genentech held firm and showed signs of accumulation.

  • General Electric Enters Bear Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Long-term statistical analysis shows General Electric entering into a primary bear market.

  • Getting Real On US Stock Market Gains

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Since the US program of quantitative easing began in earnest in October 2008, stocks and gold are up -- that's no surprise. But how have your stocks performed if we measure them against gold instead of the usual dollar terms?

  • Ghost Of Bull Market Past

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Analogy with 1987 bull market implies US stocks could rally until August 2019. The S&P 500 (SPX) rally from December 26, 2018 to May 1, 2019 resembles the SPX December 31, 1986 to April 7, 1987 ascent. If the analogy continues, the SPX could reach 3

  • Gold: Bull or Bear Market? by JESSE H. THOMPSON

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gold: Bull or Bear Market? by JESSE H. THOMPSON How to use a monthly swing chart to determine major trend. Before you attempt to answer the question, it is imperative to first define which trend you consider to be the greater trend. For in the crosscur

  • Gold: Protection From Market Crashes?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There are many sayings and wisdoms about the markets, and many of them exist for good reason. But technical analysts never assume; rather, they put things to the test. Here's a quick analysis on whether gold retains its value during market downturns

  • Golden Ratios And Market Dynamics

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Three distinct ratio views of gold suggest that silver and the stocks within XAU may soon outperform gold. Meanwhile, gold has trounced crude oil for more than four months.

  • Hammering Out A Bear Market Bottom

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What a shooting star took away from the 10-year Treasury note yield, a hammer threatens to bring back.

  • Handling Market Reactions by JOHN E. ROSENSTOCK

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Handling Market Reactions by JOHN E. ROSENSTOCK All markets exhibiting prolonged price trends invariably have reactions against the trend. These reactions can be of short or long duration and can retrace small or large portions of the preceding swing. T

  • Health Care Determines Market Direction

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There are many ways to measure the expected future direction of the overall stock market. One way is to determine what the defensive market sectors are doing.

Hedging Market Corrections Using SPY Puts by Matthew J. Stander

  • High Volatililty And Market Turns by William Brower, CTA

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does an increase in volatility indicate a market top? This historical look offers some insights. Back in 1994, it was exciting for traders watching the Standard & Poor's 500 index to get a true range day of four full points or better. These days, that s

  • Historical Movement Of The Stock Market by Michael J. Moody, C.M.T.

    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

  • Historical Patterns In The Long-Term Stock Market by James G. Arnold

    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

  • Home Depot Ready To Resume Bear Market Trend

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Statistical analysis shows that the Home Depot primary bear market countertrend rally has run its course and the stage is set for the stock to resume its bear market trend.

  • How Has The Stock Market Priced Itself? by Gordon W. Neal

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Has The Stock Market Priced Itself? by Gordon W. Neal Sometimes, the most puzzling of trading questions can be answered with the simplest of technical methods. Here, two such methods are combined for trading: Tushar Chande's variable indexed dynamic

  • How Has The Stock Market Priced Itself? by Gordon W. Neal

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Has The Stock Market Priced Itself? by Gordon W. Neal Here's a statistical view of the stock market using the Standard & Poor's 500 as the basis for analysis, and a collection of fundamental influences. Assessing whether the overall market is pric

  • How Market Psychology Works For Traders

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What's the first thought that goes through your mind after you enter a trade? For most traders, it's "how much of a profit can I make

  • How To Describe Corrections In The US Equity Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Even when you assign a fairly concrete definition to the term "correction" or "bear market", it's still not easy to know at what point one began. Here is one proposed solu

  • How To Play Both Sides Of The Market?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Buy when the market goes up and buy when the market goes down. It's that simple.

  • How To Play The Turns In The Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The trend is your friend, but navigating the turns in the market can help you make larger returns by catching tops and bottoms at just the right moment.

  • How To Stay On Top Of The Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders move from euphoria to terror as markets that were once on a bullish run turn bearish at the drop of a dime. But if you understand a few concepts, you won't be caught flat-footed.

  • How to Find Major Turns in Any Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using the four market dimensions to discover important market tops and bottoms.

  • Hugging Trendlines Before Market Surges

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trader Richard Donchian had rules to tell him when the market is about to take off.

  • IAI Leads Stock Market Lower

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Broker/Dealer Index has a longstanding reputation as a stock market leader. In good times, the index leads the stock market higher, while in bad times it leads the stock market lower. These appear to be bad times.

  • Iamgold High Relative Strength vs. Broad Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The broad markets may look a little shaky right now, but the gold/silver industry group is still chugging higher. Here's a look at one of the better performers in the precious metals complex.

  • Identifying Market Reversals by Jim White

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Identifying Market Reversals by Jim White Here's a specific technique warning about coming reversals and the steps to apply the methodology. Back in the November 2008 issue of Stocks & Commodities, I pointed out how you could reduce risk and increase t

  • Identifying Market Trends by Jack Karczewski

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Identifying Market Trends by Jack Karczewski The trend of the market is key to most every technical approach available. But the market doesn't always trend. Here's how to use a statistical tool for determining if the market is in a trend. Traders spen

  • In A Down Market What Do You Buy?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Warren Buffet announced that he bought stocks when the market crashed on Thursday, September 25, 2014.

  • In A Topping Market, Small Caps Have Diverged From Industrials

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In my last article, "Another Sign Of A Market Top?," we saw how the transports had diverged from the industrials, which is a Dow theory warning sign that a reversal may be in the offing. A falling Russell 2000 small-cap index adds more weight t

  • Index Divergences Pointing To Potential Market Drop

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Broad market indexes are weaker than the headline indexes, a condition that has preceded market declines in the past.

  • Inertia & Momentum In The Futures Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The futures markets are known for their excessive price cycles. This cyclical nature attracts speculators who like to take on the high risks associated with them. That doesn't mean retail traders can't trade futures. They just need a different perspectiv

  • Inflation-Adjusted Market Returns

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does inflation explain why markets are higher in dollar value and why they seem to be worth less in purchasing value? Here's a detailed look.

  • Inflation-Adjusted Market Returns

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Often, we forget to take inflation into account when calculating long-term returns. Here's how you can include this necessary variable and get a more realistic picture of your returns.

  • Internal Market Momentum by Martin J. Pring

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Internal Market Momentum by Martin J. Pring Breadth momentum analysis takes momentum analysis, traditionally gleaned from price and volume, a step further by examining a particular market in closer detail. Market analyst Martin Pring delves into three c

  • International Stock Market Relationships

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Divergences between US, German and Mexican stock markets could forecast the next buying opportunity.

  • Interview: David Norman On Market Technology by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:3 (76-83): Interview: David Norman On Market Technology by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan Trading's come a long way since the days of the bucket shops, and now, technology and trading have become virtually inseparable. Here's someone who can tell us all

  • Interview: Market Data Insights With John Ehlers

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...John F. Ehlers is a market technician with a specialty in the study of market data and cycles, as well as using that data more effectively to develop trading strategies. In the early 1980s, around the same time this magazine was launched, he was pioneeri

  • Interview: Technical And Market Analysis With Kyle Crystal

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Kyle Crystal, CMT, CFTe, is a portfolio manager and technical/quantitative market strategist with experience in formulating and implementing investment policy in various styles, including long-short, global macro and long-only for single managed accounts

  • Interview: The Nature Of The Market Is Change: Bruce Kamich by Thom Hartle

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Nature Of The Market Is Change: Bruce Kamich Technicians follow numerous markets, and some specialize in specific areas, such as equities or fixed income. With the Treasury bond yields recently hitting lows that were unthinkable by most only a few y

  • Interview: Trading The Currency Market With Cornelius Luca by J. Gopalakrishnan

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Trading The Currency Market With Cornelius Luca by J. Gopalakrishnan Cornelius Luca is an author and international consultant in foreign exchange and technical analysis. Luca has spent his entire professional life in international finance, an

  • Interview: Understanding The Forex Market with P. Gotthelf by J. Gopalakrishnan

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Understanding The Forex Market with P. Gotthelf by J. Gopalakrishnan Philip Gotthelf, the publisher of the COMMODEX System, the oldest daily futures trading system published, and Commodity Futures Forecast Service, which has been in existence

Interview: Vetting The Market: Price Headley by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

  • Interview: Yale Hirsch: Market Historian by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Interview: Yale Hirsch: Market Historian by John Sweeney Yale Hirsch is best known as the editor and publisher of The Stock Trader's Almanac, now in its 33rd annual edition. He is a stock market historian and stock analyst who could probably tell you, w

  • Intraday Market Forecasting by Lee Leibfarth

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:8 (34-37): Intraday Market Forecasting by Lee Leibfarth How do you find high-probability daytrading setups fast? Successful daytraders must have the ability to react as soon as favorable conditions in the market develop. Bein

  • Is Berkshire Hathaway B Shares Still A Market Leader?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In an earlier article, I compared Bershire Hathaway B shares to the S&P 500 and concluded that the shares could be used as a market leader. Is that still the case?

  • Is CAT The New GM Market Proxy?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As the world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment, where Caterpillar stock goes tells us much about the state of the market. So what is CAT telling us now?

  • Is It Time To Invest In The Housing Market?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...We all know that home prices have fallen badly with a recession created by banks who offered excessive mortgages, but is it time to start looking to reinvest?

  • Is The Market Building A Bottom?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...One good overall measure of the market is the Vanguard Total Market ETF. What is it telling us about the market?

  • Is The Market Poised For A Turndown?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...For some time now, I have been suggesting that the market could start turning down, moving into a new bear market that will last two to three years.

  • Is The Market Really In A Trading Range?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It would seem so, since the market appears to be starting a five-month rally that should complete wave 2 of a long-term horizontal correction.

  • Is The Stock Bear Market Finished?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The balance of evidence is now bullish for stocks. Here's what happened and how to take advantage of a probable trend change.

  • Is The Stock Market Bottom Here?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...News reporters, economists, and stock market forecasters view the current low in the stock market as the stock market bottom. There are many ways to measure to find out if it is. Here is one way.

  • Is The Stock Market Random? by Bill Dunbar

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is The Stock Market Random? by Bill Dunbar Professor Aikinheit of the Economics Department strokes the bottom of his mustache up out of the way, tips his martini glass and drains the last precious drops. ""Have another?"" Joe Grubber licks his upper li

  • Is This The Perfect Market Storm?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Alan Greenspan is no longer Federal Reserve chairman. China is a Communist country practicing capitalism. Put the two together. Do you get a perfect market storm?

  • Is This a Bear Market?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The recent decline in stock prices was deep, leading to the inevitable question of whether or not we're in a bear market. The answer depends upon the index and the time frame.

  • Is US Dollar Tipping Market Direction?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Movement in the $USD often serves as a strong clue for upcoming direction for the main indices.

  • Is the Bond Bull Market Over?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...One intermarket analysis of the relationship between gold, commodities and interest rates suggests that bonds may be loaded for bear.

  • JPMorgan Chase Enters Bear Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Long-term statistical analysis shows a newly established bear market trend for JPMorgan Chase.

  • Japanese Stock Market At Tradable Low

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Nikkei 225 index has been in a bear market since 1989, but there have been a number of trading opportunities.

  • Jump In! Jump Out! Using Market Timing

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Buy-and-hold notwithstanding, all investors want to be in when markets are rising and out when markets are falling. Even the simplest market timing strategies can help you do just that.

  • Key Factor In A Bull Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Studies show there is one key factor in stocks leading the next bull market as well earning the highest returns.

  • Know The Market With Hubert Senters

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Hubert Senters is a professional daytrader and entrepreneur. He is founder of HubertSenters.com and is CEO of Never Quit Media. His philosophy is that, "If you want to achieve something in life, find someone who is good at what you want to do and learn e

  • Kodak Bucks Market Weakness

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...January has been a difficult month for the broader market, but Eastman Kodak managed to find some buyers and forge a breakout.

  • Leading Indices At Bull Market Peaks by Tim Hayes

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Leading Indices At Bull Market Peaks by Tim Hayes So which indices do you think most reliably lead the market? To find out, STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor Tim Hayes, who was also interviewed in the August 1991 issue, examined 14 indicators for their m

Let The Indicator Fit The Market by Martha Stokes, CMT

  • Limit Moves in the Futures Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using limit moves to forecast future direction

  • Liquidity Of The Biofuels Market by Rick Kment

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Liquidity Of The Biofuels Market by Rick Kment The ethanol futures contract is relatively young, but the market has tremendous growth potential. Here's why. Since the early 1970s, the ethanol and biofuels industry has witnessed rapid and unprecedented

  • Listen to the market by Thom Hartle

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Listen to the market by Thom Hartle Technical analysis encompasses a myriad of approaches and, in the face of the trend toward high-tech, I admit to being less of a computer system trader and more of a traditional chartist. I actually prefer to state th

  • Listening To The Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are there ways that investors can listen to what the market may be trying to tell us?

  • Locating value with auction market data by Donald L. Jones

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Locating value with auction market data by Donald L. Jones There are two fools in every market. One asks too little, one asks too much. -- Old Russian proverb The search for value in markets is a never-ending quest, since value changes with underlying

  • Log Spirals In The Stock Market by William T. Erman

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Log Spirals In The Stock Market by William T. Erman The basic mathematical characteristic of the log spiral is that even while increasing or decreasing in size, the log spiral remains constant. This is also true for rectangular spirals, the parameters

  • Long-Term Market Breadth Analysis

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are market breadth measurements an underused tool for gaining the best picture of the stock market? Here's a study to demonstrate why you should be using this tool

Looking At The Market With Auction Market Analysis by Tom Alexander

Looking At The Market With Auction Market Analysis by Tom Alexander

  • Lumber's Historic Bear Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Lumber, which is widely followed as an economic indicator, reached its all-time lows that fulfilled major price pattern objectives in 2010.

  • Lunar Cycles And Stock Market Volatility

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Have you ever objectively analyzed the data of lunar cycles and its relationship with the financial markets? Here is one method that could bring some value to your trading.

  • MACD Divergences And Market Direction

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Learn what divergences in the moving average convergence/divergence (MACD) can tell you about which way the market is going.

  • MAT: Bear Market Bounce

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Once Mattel's current bear market bounce completes, expect another wave of selling to commence.

  • MMS-Technical Research Money Market Services on Telerate by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...MMS-Technical Research Money Market Services on Telerate by John Sweeney MMS -Technical Research Money Market Services on Telerate 490 El Camino Real Belmont, CA 94002 (800)227-7304 (415)595-0610 Price: $145 per month on already installed Telerate

  • Magnets And Market Direction

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A conversation and market update with Jordan Kimmel of Magnet Investing.

  • Major Market Trend Down

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This analysis shows that the major trend of the stock market remains downward but is currently undergoing a corrective rally.

  • Making Sense Of A Schizophrenic Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There are key differences between a bubble and a bull market. The challenge is recognizing the difference

  • Manufacturing Breakouts And The Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Manufacturing stocks are breaking out, revealing the potential to lead the market higher and offering bankable trades if you know what to look for.

  • Market Analysis And Forecasts

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...General overview of the current status of the stock, bond and commodity markets.

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    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Analyzer PLUS by Technical Analysis, Inc. Dow Jones & Company, Inc., P.O. Box 300, Princeton, NJ 08543-0300 Phone: Mark Fischer (609) 520-4641 Erin Rodgers (609) 520-4642 Customer Service: (800) 257-5114 Price: $449 Hardware: IBM PC/XT/AT or AT

  • Market Bias Shifts Yet Again

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is there a way to get advance warning of a major market turn? Possibly. And your favorite trading system might just hold the clues you seek.

  • Market Blueprints by JESSE H. THOMPSON/Technical Analysis staff writer

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Blueprints by JESSE H. THOMPSON/Technical Analysis staff writer A method or system for trading can be likened to a building in that its viability depends on its foundation and structure. Ideally the cornerstones of this building will be purpose,

  • Market Breadth - Divergence Key In Picking The Next Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock indexes can't continue to soar higher without the support of an increasing number of new highs in stocks. But how will breadth tell you when the music is about to stop?

  • Market Breadth Or Beta?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Breadth and beta both start with "b," but what else do they have in common? Maybe a way to help make trading decisions.

  • Market Breadth Screaming "Buy Now!"

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Breadth thrusts have long been used by market professionals to spot low-risk buying opportunities.

  • Market Breadth or Beta by Dennis D. Peterson

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Breadth Or Beta? Breadth and beta both start with "b," but what else do they have in common? Maybe a way to help make trading decisions. by Dennis D. Peterson Market breadth is a measure of market momentum. When momentum is positive and increas

  • Market Breadth: Volume by Dennis D. Peterson

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Determining Market Health Market Breadth: Volume Of all the market breadth measures to determine the overall health of the market, volume is perhaps one of the most difficult to use. by Dennis D. Peterson It only takes a few stocks to push major indice

  • Market Bubbles

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...By now, few can deny the existence of a bubble bursting in the US equities market. But few agree on what comes next.

Market Center 4.0

Market Center 4.0

  • Market Challenges Are Not Limited To Politicos In Europe

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As the situation in Europe continues to deteriorate, there are signs that stock market challenges are not limited to bumbling politicians in that area alone.

  • Market Correction Nearing End

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The S&P 500 appears to indicate the market correction is nearing an end.

  • Market Cycle Dynamics

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Cycle Dynamics software for MetaStock (MCD) is the creation of David Knox Barker and is based on years of cycle research.

  • Market Cycle Trifecta - What Are The Three Asset Classes Telling Us?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The business cycle can be a valuable indicator for those who know how and when to use it.

  • Market Cycles With Donald Dony

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Donald Dony is a professional technical analyst and holds the top global designation of Master of Financial Technical Analysis from the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA), the first in Canada to achieve this designation.

  • Market Diagnostic - The Yield Curve

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...During a rally, short-term interest rates (yields) on three-month bonds tend to remain well below 20-30 year bond yields. But when that relationship gets upended, it usually spells trouble.

  • Market Facilitation Index Charles F. Wright

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Facilitation Index Charles F. Wright The Market Facilitation Index (MFI) is an objective means of measuring facilitation of trade which, in its simplest terms, means how well the market is working efficiently. An efficient market is very liquid a

  • Market Forecasting Model: ARIMA by Albert E. Parish Jr., Ph.D.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Forecasting Model: ARIMA by Albert E. Parish Jr., Ph.D. Numerous statistical and time series techniques have been adapted for use in modeling futures prices series by using the microcomputer. One such model is the AutoRegressive Integrated Moving

  • Market Fuel And Technical Analysis by D. Earl Essig

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Fuel And Technical Analysis by D. Earl Essig When traders hunt for the Holy Grail of commodity trading in futures and options, obvious clues to market direction are often overlooked. One such oversight generally occurs in analyzing price patterns

  • Market Index CDs

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If you want your finances to survive inflation, you'd better find out what you don't know.

  • Market Indicators

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market movement has often been described as an unrelenting tide that floats all securities. With all the uncertainty in the present economy, market indicators can help you stay afloat.

  • Market Indicators: Useful Tools

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Some indicators are more useful than others. As always, it depends on individual judgment.

  • Market Internals Showing Signs Of Strain

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...For any rally to keep going there has to be a steady price growth by strong stocks to lead the market higher. Here are two metrics that are saying that just isn't happening.

  • Market Kinematics With Stan Harley

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stan Harley's career has spanned investment advisory services, defense/aerospace, and military service. A former naval aviator in various fighter aircraft, Harley attended the US Navy's fighter weapons school better known as Top Gun. An investment adviso

  • Market Leaders Making New Highs

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks like Hansen Natural and Sturm, Ruger & Co. have led the market to the upside and still show strength.

  • Market Leaders Tell A Tale Of Woe

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...These previous market darlings pulled the market higher in good times. But now they are doing the opposite.

  • Market Maker Activity And Price Movement

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can you predict the price movement of actively traded stocks based on the hedging activities of market makers? The results of these studies could help answer that question

Market Maker by John Sweeney

Market Manager PLUS

  • Market Mobs

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The markets are powerful and propelled by emotions, often influenced by crowds. Get an edge by understanding how shifts in sentiment affect the supply/demand balance and ultimately price.

Market News

Market Phase And Chart Formation by Chuck Dukas

  • Market Prediction Through Fractal Geometry by Victor E. Krynicki, Ph.D.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Prediction Through Fractal Geometry by Victor E. Krynicki, Ph.D. Few have heard of fractal geometry and fewer still know how to use it. But it is a powerful tool with which to analyze nonlinear systems and is the main alternative for analyzing sy

Market Profile Basics by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

  • Market Profile Exotics by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Profile Exotics The Liquidity Data Bank In this followup to last month 's article on Market Profile,we go beyond Market Profile to determine price movements.Here 's a look at the Liquidity Data Bank,which helps traders detect price movements earl

  • Market Profile Part 2 by Thomas P. Drinka, Ph.D. and Robert L. McNutt

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Profile Part 2 by Thomas P. Drinka, Ph.D. and Robert L. McNutt The market is composed of time, price and volume. Each day, the market--in attempting to facilitate trade--develops a price range delineated by the daily high and low and a Value Area w

  • Market Profile Part 5 by Thomas P. Drinka, Stephen M. Ptasienski and Robby L. Humes

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Profile Part 5 by Thomas P. Drinka, Stephen M. Ptasienski and Robby L. Humes To make the information from the Chicago Board of Trade's Market Profile and Liquidity Data Bank reports more useful to traders, we have tabulated time-and-sales as well

  • Market Profile and market logic Part 1 by Thomas P. Drinka and Robert L. McNutt

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Profile and market logic Part 1 by Thomas P. Drinka and Robert L. McNutt Following more than four years of development by J. Peter Steidlmayer and the Chicago Board of Trade, the CBOT Market Profile and Liquidity Data Bank went online in 1985. Wi

  • Market Profile and market logic Part 1 by Thomas P. Drinka and Robert L. McNutt

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Profile and market logic Part 1 by Thomas P. Drinka and Robert L. McNutt Following more than four years of development by J. Peter Steidlmayer and the Chicago Board of Trade, the CBOT Market Profile and Liquidity Data Bank went online in 1985. Wi

  • Market Profile and trends Part 3 by Thomas Drinka, Ph.D. and Robert L. McNutt

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Profile and trends Part 3 by Thomas Drinka, Ph.D. and Robert L. McNutt The key to market opportunity is knowing when current market price diverges from value and being able to judge whether price will move to value or value to price. A divergence

  • Market Profile/Liquidity Data Bank: A procedural outline by Donald L. Jones

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Profile/Liquidity Data Bank: A procedural outline by Donald L. Jones The Chicago Board of Trade's Market Profile/Liquidity Data Bank report is an unparalleled source of market- generated information. Each price traded during the day is identified

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...''Unserious thoughts'' on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Discretionary Trading vs. System Trading

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious" thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: The Odyssey Of A Still-Struggling Commodity Trade

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Gaining A Vital Edge In Stock Selection Using Fundamental Analysis

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Markets Change, And So Should Your Strategies

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: High-Frequency Trading And Market Making (Part 1)

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...''Unserious" thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Trend-Following Or Mean-Reverting http://technical.traders.com/

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Before You Can Avoid Noise In Your Data, You First Must Define It

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Not All Timeframes Are Equally Useful (Part 2 Of 2)

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Why The 50- And 20-Day Moving Averages Are Still Effective Today

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: There Is No Magic In Elliott Waves, And Trend Is Not Forever

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Look To Exploit Pricing And Market Inefficiencies (Or, How I Apply

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: A Killer Of Trading Success

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: What's The Best Timeframe: A 1-Minute Chart? A Monthly Chart? Somew

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Indicators--Can't Live With 'Em, Can't Live Without 'Em

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...'"Unserious" thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Getting To The Point Where The Rubber Meets The Ro

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: What Is Good Financial Information? (Part 2 Of 2)

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Automation In Trading: A Real Life Saver (Part 2 Of 2)

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Automation In Trading: A Real Life Saver (Part 1 Of 2)

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...''Unserious" thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: A Remembrance Of The Life And Work Of J. Welles Wilder Jr http:/

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and former adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Trading Contests (Part 1 Of 2)

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: The Business Of Trading

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: A Marketplace Of Confusion

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Why Drawdown Is Meaningless: A Counterintuitive Perspective On Risk

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Are Successful Private Traders Sociopaths Or Simply Brilliant Indiv

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Trendlines: Do they work?

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: What They Say Matters

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and former adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: The Most Influential Trader In My Trading

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Market Declines: A Disaster, Or An Opportunity

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and former adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Trading Contests (Part 2 Of 2)

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: The "Crowd" And The Contrarian: Who's Right More Ofte

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: What Is Good Financial Information? (Part 1 Of 2)

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and former adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: The Smell Of Boot Grease, Gunpowder, And Lots Of Dust: What

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: What Is Good Trading

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: High-Frequency Trading And Market Making (Part 2): My Experience In

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Should We Give Up On The Head-And-Shoulders Pattern

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Some Philosophical Thoughts On Optimization And Its Roles

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Speculation vs. Investing

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: What Is Arbitrage And Are There Really No Free Lunches?

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Is your trading a business that you can pass along

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: The RSI Isn't A Panacea

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Can Everyone Make Money With A Trading System

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: System Traders And Discretionary Traders, And The Gulf In Between

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Intraday Futures Prices

  • Market Rap

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Unserious thoughts on serious topics in finance, from Emilio Tomasini, a professional trader and adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Bologna in Italy. This month: Can Anyone Be A Turtle?

Market Reactivity by Al Gietzen

Market Reactivity by Al Gietzen

  • Market Rebounds, But Is It About To Go Higher?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The market has been pulling back during a transitional month, but is it about to go higher?

  • Market Sentiment

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Take a sentimental journey through the world of contrarian investing.

  • Market Sentiment Extremes by John Jagerson & S. Wade Hansen

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:3 (50-54): Market Sentiment Extremes by John Jagerson & S. Wade Hansen The ability to pick up on and properly interpret minute signals in the market dictates the distinction between success and failure. Here's how implied vola

  • Market Showing Strong Divergence

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The market has been ignoring bad news and celebrating the good. But how long can the good times last without a hangover?

  • Market Symmetry In Interest Rates?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As the bear market unfolded in 2008, interest rates on the 10-year Treasury note fell by about 50% in a little more than six months. A 40% decline in interest rates in 2010 looks similar, despite the different economic factors and vastly different econom

  • Market Taking A Bite Out Of Apple?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In a mammoth runup, how much higher does Apple really have left to run?

  • Market Thrust by Tushar S. Chande

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Thrust by Tushar S. Chande An abundance of articles and letters concerning the Arms index, or the trading index (TRIN), during the past year was one proof of its popularity. The articles were concerned with both the uses and limitations of the Ar

  • Market Ticker's Karl Denninger by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Ticker's Karl Denninger by J. Gopalakrishnan and B. Faber Karl Denninger tells you like it is. He is the former Ceo of McsNet, a regional Chicago-area networking and Internet company that operated from 1987 to 1998. McsNet offered several "firsts

  • Market Timing

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Timing

Market Timing System Version 2.6 by Vicki Parker Lee

  • Market Timing With Candlesticks

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Let the market tell you what it's going to do.

  • Market Timing and Candlesticks by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Timing and Candlesticks by Gary S. Wagner and Bradley L. Matheny When to buy and what? Those are the questions that have plagued market participants the world over. Here's a proposal on how to use candlesticks to time the market. To be successf

  • Market Topology by Nicolas Vandewalle, Ph.D.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Topology by Nicolas Vandewalle, Ph.D. Stock W affects stock X, which in turn affects stock Y, which drives stock Z. How do you work out all the interconnectivity? By using a market tree. No single indicator seems to represent the global (or loca

  • Market Trend And Midas by Andrew Coles and David Hawkins

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Trend And Midas by Andrew Coles and David Hawkins Here's an in-depth look at an indicator that is part of Midas, the well-known market data analysis system. In this, the first of a three-part series, we will look at the formula used to calculate

  • Market Turns And Continuation Moves With The Tick Index by Tim Ord

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Turns And Continuation Moves With The Tick Index by Tim Ord The tick index is a little-known indicator that can be used to indicate short-term stock market reversals and provide trend confirmation. Short-term traders should consider using the tic

  • Market Types, Sideways Markets, And Trading With Bollinger Bands

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You can increase your odds of adapting your strategy to the market type in effect.

  • Market Vane Transformations by Kenneth L. Kinkopf Jr.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Vane Transformations by Kenneth L. Kinkopf Jr. The sentiment readings of the Market Vane service is a poll taken daily from futures trading advisors indicating the percentage that are bullish at that moment. Ironically, market consensus is used a

  • Market Vectors Russia ETF And Price Channels

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There is an exchange traded fund to help you profit in the commodity secular bull market if you know how to trade it.

  • Market Volatility Alarms Participants

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The market has been hit by bad news almost every day. When will the market calm down?

  • Market Volatility and the INDU

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On Friday, August 25, 2022, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDU) dropped a whopping 1000 points. This was a direct reaction to Jeremy Powell, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve's hawkish stance on interest rates.

  • Market Watch: Beware the Hydra

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As the second week of May began, a number of patterns became increasingly evident that should give the bulls pause and cause the bears to lick their chops.

  • Market entry with action/reaction lines by Ron Jaenisch

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market entry with action/reaction lines by Ron Jaenisch Action/Reaction lines are a charting technique developed in the early 1900s by Roger Babson, who founded the Babson Business Institute in Massachusetts and believed Newton's laws of gravity affecte

  • Market letter sentiment by Arthur Merrill

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market letter sentiment by Arthur Merrill Analyst Abraham Cohen, many years ago, began to tabulate the opinions of stock market analysts. He watched scores of market letters (including my own!) and each week put them in three piles: bullish, bearish and

  • Market profile Part 4 by Thomas Drinka, Ph.D. and Robert L. McNutt

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market profile Part 4 by Thomas Drinka, Ph.D. and Robert L. McNutt Previously, we considered the manner in which the market utilizes price probes and rotation during the trading day to promote trade. Depending on the response of other-time-frame traders

  • Market strategy The Wyckoff method of trading: Part 15 by Jack K. Hutson

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market strategy The Wyckoff method of trading: Part 15 by Jack K. Hutson The reasoning behind Richard D. Wyckoff''s classic method of chart analysis is simple and straightforward: when demand for a stock exceeds supply, prices rise; when supply is great

  • Market trends in composite averages Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 3 by Jack K. Hutson.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market trends in composite averages Wyckoff method of trading stocks part 3 by Jack K. Hutson. By looking at Vertical Line charts of composite averages using Wyckoff analysis, you can learn where the market is taking your individual and group stock pick

  • Match Your Method To The Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Each trading style has market conditions in which it thrives. Match 'em and make your profit.

  • Measuring Market Cycles

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If you haven't given much thought to why certain parameters are used in indicators, you may be interested to know that it has a lot to do with measured cycle periods. Here's how you can use these measured periods and apply them to your indicators

  • Measuring Market Internals With L.A. Little

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...L.A. Little is a professional money manager trading his own accounts while managing investment funds for qualified investors from his Colorado-based office. He is the author of three books.

  • Measuring Market Performance

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Fisher-Gartman Risk Index uses a multi-asset class and global approach in measuring market performance.

  • Measuring Market Sentiment Using Breakout Ratios

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a unique way to measure the bullish/bearish bias of the individual stocks that make up any given index or industry group.

  • Measuring Stock Performance Against The Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You know what correlation is, but what about partial correlation? Here we introduce you to a statistical measure that takes the pulse of stock performance relative to the market

  • 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

  • Merck Holds Firm In The Face Of Market Weakness

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Merck is battling back with a triangle breakout and a consolidation near resistance.

  • Messages from a Split Stock Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See what stock market messages were sent on June 9, 2017.

  • Messages from a Split Stock Market - Part Two

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See why Nasdaq 100 underperformance could signal an imminent decline.

  • Mexico, the Secret Bull Market Indicator

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Learn how the Mexican stock market is giving clues to a multi-month rally for crude oil and stock markets of other nations.

  • Millennium Bucks The Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...While the broader market falls apart, relative strength and good upside volume point to higher prices for Millennium Pharmaceuticals.

  • Modeling The Market = Building Trading Strategies by John F. Ehlers

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:8 (20-26): Modeling The Market = Building Trading Strategies by John F. Ehlers The correct model can form the foundation for comprehensive trading strategies. Modeling the market is important because you can build comprehensi

  • Modeling The Stock Market by Paul T. Holliday

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Modeling The Stock Market by Paul T. Holliday The price/earnings ratio works perfectly well-- for stocks. But, Paul Holliday points out, it doesn't work for stock indices such as the DJIA or the Standard & Poor's 500, where the effective interest rate wo

  • Momentum Indicators and Market Cycles by John Nicholas

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Momentum Indicators and Market Cycles by John Nicholas The techniques used for stock and commodity analysis range from the naively simple to the stunningly complex. Some are based on sound mathematical and philosophical principles while others border on

  • Momentum Indicators and Market Cycles by John Nicholas

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:4 (78-79): Momentum Indicators and Market Cycles by John Nicholas Here's an article we originally published 23 years ago, two years after Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES broke ground, proving that, yes, cycles are e

  • Monitoring Equity For Market Analysis by Joe Luisi

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Monitoring Equity For Market Analysis by Joe Luisi STOCKS & COMMODITIES contributor Joe Luisi presents a strategy for using a graph of your profits and losses to pick either trend-following or a trading range trading system. It is well known -- or it sh

  • More Signs Of A Market Top

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Insider selling continued at a brisk pace in November. The ratio of shares sold to purchased dropped slightly but overall sales were up significantly. There are other signs that the market may be at, or at least very near, a top.

  • More Stock Market Topping Signs

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In my Traders.com Advantage article "Four Stock Topping Signs," I discussed four conditions that warned of a potential top in stocks. Here are some more concerning signs from two other independent sources.

  • More Stock Market Topping Signs (Continued)

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  • Morgan Stanley Emerging Market Debt A Buy?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund operates as a nondiversified, closed-end management investment company. Is it worth a look?

  • Moving Averages Define Market Trends

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving averages are a simple way of defining the short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term market trends. The timing of these trends also help traders in determining how long these trends should last.

  • Mutated Variables Volatility And A New Market Paradigm by Walter T. Downs, Ph.D.

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N-Squared Stock & Futures Analyzer-XL N-Squared Market Analyzer-XL by John Sweeney

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    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Statistical analysis is used to show that the NASDAQ Composite index is in a primary bear market but is currently undergoing a countertrend rally.

  • NYSE technical indicators: diagnosing market bottoms by Thomas Aspray

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  • NYT: Classic Pullback In A Bull Market?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of New York Times 'A' stock (NTY)are up by 38% since making a major multicycle low on May 1, 2013 and are now sitting at an important support level; if this level holds off further selling, the odds are good for a tradable bullish swing

  • Natural Gas Bull Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See why a Natural Gas bull market could affect Crude Oil and the US stock market.

  • Natural Gas: One ETF Bucks Market Selloff

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Based on chart action and COT figures, the smart money appears to be accumulating natural gas.

  • Navigating Rough Waters In Tomorrow's Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The market has shown signs of life, but you need to know how to navigate tomorrow's rough waters if you want to profit and, more important, how to avoid unnecessary losses.

  • Navigating Through Market Manipulations: The ICT Judas Swing Strategy

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The name of this strategy reflects that it attempts to capitalize on some of the deceptive market manipulations carried out by big market players. Here are the details of this trading strategy

  • Net Effective Market Activity

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The desire to learn more about the relationships amid price, volume, and open interest has led to a new concept in evaluating futures contracts. Will it work for you?

  • New Bull Market. . . Or?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The market, as shown by the S&P 500 index, appears to be entering a new Bull market - or is this a sucker play? You decide. Here are the clues.

  • New Bull Market. . . Or?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The market, as shown by the S&P 500 index, appears to be entering a new Bull market - or is this a sucker play? You decide. Here are the clues.

  • New Dimensions In Market Charts by Salvatore J. Chiappone, DDS

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Like the markets, technical analysis evolves. This article details the construction and use of bar-chart types beginning with a short review of older forms -- bar charts, candlesticks and Equivolume -- and a presentation of two new forms, flagbars and time

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  • 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.

  • Nikkei 225 Colossal Bear Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Could the bottom made in 2008 be breached in 2016?

  • Not A Time To Pick Market Tops In .SPX

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When a powerful trend takes hold, it generally pays to give such a market move the respect it deserves.

  • OEX Monitors The Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The S&P 100 Index [OEX] is a great tool for measuring broad market action. Here's a look at some recent technical developments within the OEX.

  • ORH: Superior Relative Strength Vs. Broad Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a look at Odyssey Re Holdings, the strongest stock in the strongest industry group compared with the New York Composite Index.

  • Observing Market Behavior

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You can find out all sorts of interesting and useful things if you explore new types of data.

  • Obstacles to Success in the Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's not what the market is doing TO you but rather what you are doing in the market

  • October Bottom For The Stock Market?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There's an abundant amount of evidence gathering that indicates October 2015 could have a significant bottom, let's take a look at what's developing.

  • On The Bull Market Of the Century: Louise Yamada by Thom Hartle

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  • Outperform The Market With Sector ETFs

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  • Overbought Stock Market Doesn't Mean Sell

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders often assume overbought markets are ready to decline, but as the S&P 500 has shown in 2012, markets can stay overbought for extended periods.

  • Overhauling Market Breadth by Jacobus R. van den Brink

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    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Patterns that detect stock market reversals by Bill Ohama and Melanie Bowman Full-speed ahead on its maiden voyage and presumably protected against disaster, the Titanic sank in the chilly North Atlantic Ocean, shattered by an undetected iceberg. In the

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    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This statistical analysis shows Pfizer is now entering into a long-term bear market trend.

  • Picking Winners In The Present Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There are many programs in the marketplace that are designed to pick winners. Some work, others don't, but the expense outlay can be worth it. Below are three companies that could be winners.

  • Playing Both Sides Of The Gold Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...For traders who are unsure of market direction, selling high-volatility, deferred-month options can be an interesting and potentially profitable alternative.

  • Playing The Index Market by Tom Gentile

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  • Playing The Pauses In The Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Great musicians, like great traders, play the pauses between the notes, or price action, for runaway moves in the stock market.

Predict, Identify, And Trade Future Market Swings by John Crane

  • Predicting Major Market Moves by Gregory N. Hight

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Predicting Major Market Moves by Gregory N. Hight Here's a statistical method that compares the movement of the Standard & Poor's 500 index with the changes of interest rates. In addition, the author explains statistical tests that help validate the rel

  • Predicting Market Data Using The Kalman Filter by R. Martinelli & N. Rhoads

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Predicting Market Data Using The Kalman Filter by R. Martinelli & N. Rhoads The Kalman filter is a two-stage algorithm that assumes there is a smooth trendline within the data that represents the true value of the market before being perturbed by market

  • Predicting Market Data Using The Kalman Filter, Pt 2 by R. Martinelli & N. Rhoads

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Predicting Market Data Using The Kalman Filter, Pt 2 by R. Martinelli & N. Rhoads Can the Kalman filter be used to predict future price movement? In this second part of this series we answer this question. Previously, we discussed the Kalman filter and

  • Predicting Market Turning Points

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a unique look at how you can identify market turning points.

  • Predicting The Market With Earnings Per Share by Randall J. Covill

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Predict The Market With Earnings Per Share by Randall J. Covill Take a look at the relationship between changes in earnings per share for each year and the performance of the market for the following year. Is there a correlation? One of Benjamin Graham

  • Predicting The Market With Unreliable Sources by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Predicting The Market With Unreliable Sources by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Joe trades Standard & Poor's 500 contracts, and at the moment he is in a quandary. He looks at a chart of the market and wonders what he should do. The market looks as though it's in a

  • Predicting market order with the Delta phenomenon by J. Welles Wilder

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Predicting market order with the Delta phenomenon by J. Welles Wilder Does each market have an underlying order that makes it predictable? The answer is yes. That order makes a riskless trading strategy possible. The Delta phenomenon shows the underly

  • Presidential Parties and the Stock Market by Dave Dorgan

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Presidential Parties And The Stock Market by Dave Dorgan Is there a relationship between the Presidential party in power and the subsequent performance of the stock market? Before you take a guess, here are the facts. Conventional wisdom would have one

  • Primary Bull Market Remains Intact

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Statistical analysis is used to show that the primary bull market of the Dow Jones Industrial Average remains intact. However, this analysis also shows that a market top lies ahead.

  • Primary Bull Market Secondary Reaction

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Statistical analysis is used to help clarify the difference between a secondary reaction within an ongoing bull market or the establishment of a new bear market.

  • Principles of market activity by Robert Pisani

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Principles of market activity by Robert Pisani Fundamental to the branch of applied economics that I call Market Structure Analysis are three principles which I modestly call ""the Pisani Principles."" These elementary principles, certainly known to mer

  • Procter And Gamble Bull Market Ends

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Long-term statistical analysis shows that the bull market for Procter and Gamble has come to an end.

Product Review: Market Dynamics by John Sweeney

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Product Review: Universal Market Data Server

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  • Product review: Market Rover Pro

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market Rover Pro from The Steady Trader (TST) is a web-based scanner that incorporates several proprietary indicators developed by Serge Berger to detect reversals, continuations, price exhaustion, and gaps

  • Product review: MishÕs Market Minute Premium

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Do you want advice from a trading expert? Here's one way to get it, and when you look at all that you get, you'll wonder, "How does she do it all

  • Profiting From Tectonic Shifts In The Stock Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There are major shifts under way in the market, and you can reap huge gains if you're on the right side...

  • Profiting In A Stage III Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How can you make money in a trading-range market?

  • Projecting Market Cycles

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here in part 6 of Sylvain Vervoort's "Exploring Charting Techniques" series, he discusses a unique way to identify the beginning and end of a market cycle

  • Pullback Trading Using Market Momentum

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Chart patterns in a major index can give you the green light for buying stocks that are pulling back.

  • Put/Call Ratio Oscillator To Pinpoint Market Conditions by John Summa

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Put/Call Ratio Oscillator To Pinpoint Market Conditions by John Summa Who says the put/call ratio doesn't work anymore? Here's an oscillator that's great for pinpointing intermediate market tops and bottoms. What's the ideal time to write an option?

  • Putting Paid To The Bull Market?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The bears continue to have a hard time writing the obituary for the bull market that began in 2003. Will it die? Not yet -- the weekly charts show that the market is on life support.

  • Qualcomm Enters Bear Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This statistical analysis shows Qualcomm now entering into a long-term bear market trend.

Quick Scan: Bear Market Game Plan by Dennis Peterson

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  • Quick-Scan: Market Timer App

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It isn't often a customer likes a product so much he decides to buy the company. But that is exactly what Jerry McFarland did when the original owners of Best Choice software retired. Rather than see a company so well-known to those interested in seasona

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  • RMO Trading System Signals Market Turn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The RMO swing-trading system has issued an unusually large number of sell signals in a wide range of S&P 500 component stocks.

  • Ratio Analysis Defines Market Direction

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Several methods are used in technical analysis to determine the future direction of the stock market. Among these various methodologies is ratio analysis.

  • Reacting To Market Moves, Part 1

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The reason we make counterproductive trading decisions is because of our biases and flawed intuition. In this first part of a two-part series, we analyze and try to understand these trading behaviors so we can avoid costly mistakes and become more effect

  • Reacting To Market Moves, Part 2

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What approach can lead to success in technical trading, in spite of all the cognitive biases we can have that were discussed in part 1 of this two-part article? Here in this second part, we try to answer that question by comparing what humans do in the m

  • Reg FD is Bad for the Market and for Technical Traders

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Regulation FD (Fair Disclosure), has leveled the information playing field, but costs are potentially devastating to both large and small traders.

  • Retail Sector Says Market Bottom Not In Yet

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There are many ways to measure if the current low in the market is the bottom. Among these is the major trend direction of the retail market sector.

  • Revery: Computerized Stock Market Trading by Henry S. Patricoff

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Revery: Computerized Stock Market Trading by Henry S. Patricoff A recent article in Barron's expressed the view that the options Index market has become so large that possibly it is the tail that is wagging the dog. Aside from a spectacular one or two

SIDEBAR: Bull or bear market?

  • SIDEBAR: Historical Market Turning Points

    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

  • SIDEBAR: MARKET THRUST

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...MARKET THRUST In a spreadsheet, the cumulative market thrust line and the thrust oscillator (TO) use the daily number of advancing issues, declining issues, upside volume and downside volume. In Figure 1, the NYSE Composite is column B, the number of ad

  • SNAP - Snapback Recovery Or New Market Leader?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...SNAP was hit hard in the wake of its celebrated IPO in 2017 but has shown an incredible recovery since then. Is the worst over for this new tech darling or is it simply experiencing a snap-back move?

  • SPY - A Market Proxy

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It has now been eight days since markets began their upward march, but the run is showing signs of strain.

  • Scheduling Time For Market Study by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Scheduling Time For Market Study by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Bill, a trader, called my office complaining that he never has enough time to really study the markets. He said his lack of time often resulted in serious problems, and he expressed an interest in

  • Second Market Crash Is Straight Ahead

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The NASDAQ completed its bull market runup in 2000 and is in a market correction that could last until 2010. It could fall to as low as 617.

  • Secular Bear Market Remains Intact

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The rally off the February 2010 low has now pushed so far that traders and even market analysts are now starting to consider that a new bull market is underway. According to the Elliott wave theory, however, the market has one more down leg to go that wi

  • Semiconductors Enter Primary Bear Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Long-term statistical analysis shows the semiconductor market sector moving from a primary bull market to a primary bear market.

Sidebar: Emerging market study by Robert Pelletier

  • Silver Strangle Play Both Sides Of The Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Not sure which way silver will move in the next few months? Not to worry, there's a way to play such indecision by selling options.

  • Simple Techniques In A Volatile Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...DuPont is an example to highlight a few simple but reliable techniques that can save traders from huge uncertainty.

  • So What's A Bear Market Again?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In Elliott wave theory, a bear market is usually described as an A-B-C correction.

  • Spotting Accumulation In A Quiet Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Don't look at volume now to spot emerging bullish trends or you'll miss the next big move.

  • Stay In The Market With Stop-And-Reverse

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If you hate being out of the market, you should take a look at this system.

  • Still A Bear Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Much commentary of late suggests that we are now in a new bull market. However, the basics of technical analysis says otherwise.

  • Stock Bull Market Enters Twilight Zone

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks have bottomed at a bulls-eye target date, see when the next turn could come.

  • Stock Hit List And Sizing Up The Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...One of the biggest edges you can give yourself is knowing who the strongest stock leaders are and how to spot them.

  • Stock Market Angles

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Examination of bull market rates of ascent.

  • Stock Market Bears Hold the One Yard Line

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

  • Stock Market Breaks Through Resistance

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How long can the rally last, and where are the next resistance areas?

  • Stock Market Building A Base?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How late 2015 could be setting the stage for multi month rally.

  • Stock Market Business Cycle by Bill Dunbar

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock Market Business Cycle by Bill Dunbar Bottom fishing should be peaceful. If you're a bottom fisherman you like to recline in an open boat in the cool of the morning or sit with your back against a mossy bank in the gathering dusk and watch the leav

  • Stock Market Confirming Indicators

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Discovering strength/weakness in a market movement.

  • Stock Market Contraction Begins

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The expansion and contraction indicators suggest the stock market cycle has now entered into a period of contraction indicating a weakening of the stock market.

  • Stock Market Corrects

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The stock market has now entered into a market correction. There are those market participants that are calling for the end of the upward rally at this price juncture and those who forecast the market will continue higher. Let's look at the technica

  • Stock Market Decision Point

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The fate of the eight-year stock bull market could be decided in early October.

  • Stock Market Double-Header? by Bill Dunbar

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock Market Double-Header? by Bill Dunbar On the long side it's easy to make money in stocks at the beginning of a well-defined bull market. If you pick your issues by throwing darts or consulting your astrologer, or even listening to your investment a

  • Stock Market Déjà Vu? by K.D. Angle

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The more things change, the more they remain the same. This money manager compares today's economic situation with the 1920s and finds some interesting parallels. As computers continue to dictate many of the trading decisions of the 1990s in both the s

  • Stock Market Ending the Year with a Bang?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How to take advantage of a late year stock market decline.

  • Stock Market Forecasts Giants Super Bowl Win

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...While many look to the Super Bowl as a market indicator, we can also use the market to predict the winner of the game.

  • Stock Market Into The Cross Hair

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The S&P 500 could reach strong price resistance on an important cycle date.

  • Stock Market Lessons From Mr. Fibonacci

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See why September 1, 2016 could be a bottom for US stocks.

  • Stock Market Lessons from Mr. Fibonacci - Part Three

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The incredible string of Fibonacci turn dates continues. See why September 14, 2016 could be the next bottom.

  • Stock Market Lessons from Mr. Fibonacci - Part Two

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See why the September 1, 2016 bottom could be the prelude to a major stock market peak.

  • Stock Market Mini Crash - 2016

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See why the stock market in October 2016 is eerily like August 2015.

  • Stock Market Momentum Cycles

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How strong is the current US stock market rally?

  • Stock Market Recovery And How To Survive The Fall

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There are key factors that can help you understand the market's cycle when it crashes as well as how to avoid it and, more important, how to profit by it.

  • Stock Market Risk: A Monthly Look by John Kean

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock Market Risk: A Monthly Look by John Kean Have you ever wanted to know what the actual statistics of the month-to-month risk in the stock market are? This article looks at the question and formulates a possible reason. Most stock market analysis f

  • Stock Market Rosetta Stone

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See why 2532.69 is a key price point on the S&P 500.

  • Stock Market Seasonal Patterns

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See what factors could make November 2018 a bullish month.

  • Stock Market Seasonality

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Should you sell in May, or later in the summer, or never? Is October the best reentry month? Which are the best and worst months for the stock market? And are there statistically significant seasonal patterns in the equity markets? Can we improve on a se

  • Stock Market Seasonality: A Global Phenomenon

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is yearly seasonality something that is particular to the US stock market, or does it extend to other countries in the same way? Here's some research you can use to your advantage

  • Stock Market Sector Analysis

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See how the strongest stock market sectors perform in bull and bear markets.

  • Stock Market Serial Killers

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks, like serial killers, can be charming and disarming, but the moment you turn your back and your money over to them, you are in big danger.

  • Stock Market Signals From The Sentiment Dimension

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Simple methods to measure sentiment of the US stock market. Every market has four dimensions: Price, Time, Momentum, and Sentiment. The Sentiment dimension delves into the realm of investor/trader psychology by discovering bullish and bearish extremes.

  • Stock Market Super Bullish Scenario

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See why US stock could be in a powerful multi-month rally.

  • Stock Market Super Bullish Scenario - Part Two

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...More evidence that the rally in US stocks could continue for several months.

  • Stock Market Time Tunnel

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Could August 20, 2018 be the day of a major stock market top?

  • Stock Market Turns Down

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is it a minor decline or the start of something big?

  • Stock Market Volatility: What Next?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volatility is at its lowest levels in years. Although structural changes might be ongoing, a high-volatility environment appears to be back.

  • Stock Market: The Wall Street Trading Game

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Learn how trading works - the fun way!

  • Stock market timing with interest rates by Jay Kaeppel

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock market timing with interest rates by Jay Kaeppel The level and trend of interest rates has a tremendous influence over what types of investments investors choose to put their money into. Generally, when interest rates are low and/or falling, inves

  • Strong Price Patterns In The Current Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This week, you should know the direction of the overall market and spot price patterns like these to succeed.

  • Sunspots and Market Activity by J. Katz, Ph.D.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is increased sunspot activity a precursor to market volatility? As any amateur radio operator can tell you, one of the major influences on long-distance radio transmissions is sunspots, which appear to the observer as, literally, dark spots on the surfa

  • Support And Resistance Lines Define Market Trends

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Support and resistance lines not only help traders in identifying areas of support and resistance, but they can be used to determine the trend of the market.

  • Surviving A Bear Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here are some strategies you can implement to withstand a bear market.

  • Tactical asset allocation with the Market Forecaster by Mark Hallinan

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tactical asset allocation with the Market Forecaster by Mark Hallinan When used as an allocator, the Market Forecaster program, produced by William Finnegan Associates, Inc., may produce higher profits than a simple buy-and-hold strategy and at less ris

  • Taking Advantage Of Market Volume

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trends in market volume can provide helpful insight into market activity. One effective way to recognize these volume trends is with the use of a volume oscillator.

  • Tandem Studies On Market Movement by Dima Vonko

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tandem Studies On Market Movement by Dima Vonk Here's a tool that analyzes the structure of the market and anticipates market developments for the immediate future. Market movements are often referred to as trends, sideways movements, and consolidation

  • Tech And Small Cap Point Toward Lower Stock Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Bull markets are usually led higher by stocks in the NASDAQ and small-cap stocks. But not right now.

  • Tech Stocks Leading Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Healthy bull markets in the past have been led higher by growth stocks in general and technology stocks in particular.

  • Technical Index measures market breadth by William Mason

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technical Index measures market breadth by William Mason There are numerous driving forces in the stock market such as inflation, interest rates, earnings, trade deficit, fear and greed. The final output from the driving forces behind the stock market a

  • Technology Leading Broader Stock Market Higher

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There are two market sectors that lead the broader stock market higher. By knowing the current trend of these market sectors, it is possible to know what the future trend of the broader stock market is. One of these market sectors is the technology marke

  • Teleflex — A Good Stock For An Uncertain Market

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If Congress and the Federal Reserve can stimulate the economy, then it's time to buy industrials in anticipation of the recovery.

  • That's One Way To Bet On A Falling Market Without Having To Sell Short!

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Borrowing stock to sell short has limited upside if you get it right but unlimited downside if you're wrong. Here is a way to bet on a correction while limiting risk.

  • The 40-Week Cycle In The Stock Market by Jay Kaeppel

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The 40-Week Cycle In The Stock Market by Jay Kaeppel Is the market truly random? Some phenomena related to the stock market would not be expected to exist if the market truly were random. There has been much debate in the investment community regarding

  • The Advance-Decline, New-High, New-Low Market System by D. Meyers

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V.14:2 (69-75): The Advance-Decline, New-High, New-Low Market System by Dennis Meyers Try combining popular technical stock market indicators - the advance-decline line, the number of stocks making new highs and the number of stocks making new lows - to

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The Market Forecaster by Mark Hallinan

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The Market Instrument Function by A. Ershov and A. Gerasimov

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The Visual Investor -- How to Spot Market Trends

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  • Timing The Market With Distribution

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Spotting distribution can help you spot stress fractures in the current uptrend and avoid losses.

  • Timing The Market With Pairs Logic

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  • Timing The Market With Walter Deemer

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  • Timing The Stock Market With A Discount/T-Bill Spread by Nelson Freeburg and Charles Skelley

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  • Tools to Find Market Turns - Part Two

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  • Traders Remain Confident In The Stock Market

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  • Trading Chaos In Today's Market by J.Williams-Lara and Marcus Lara

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Trading The Electronic Futures Market by Charles M. Steiner

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  • Transports Driving Market Lower

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  • US Presidential Elections And The Stock Market - Part Two

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  • Understanding Causes Of Market Movements

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  • VIX Topping Out Soon May Mean Market Bounce

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WM: Arbitrary But True: Hidden Influences On The Stock Market by James A. Maccaro

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  • WTI Order Flow Weekly: A Look Into The Market Insights Into This Week's EIA Release

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  • WTI Order Flow Weekly: Structural Insight In The Market Profile Provide Trend Continuation Clues

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  • WTI Weekly: Balance Leads To Imbalance As Market Structure Provides Insight Into Pending Trend

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  • WTI Weekly: Bullish Market Structure Guides Way To Buy-Side Continuation

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  • WTI Weekly: Despite Initial Aggressive Price Discovery Lower, Market Structure Implied Continuation

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  • WTI Weekly: Despite Large Prior Declines Market Structure Continued To Point Lower

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  • WTI Weekly: Dual Probability Path Provides Insight Into Failure Of Key Market Level

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  • WTI Weekly: Market Structure Signaled The Selloff To Statistical Support Was Halted

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  • Waiting For Market Time by Jayant Sathe and Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

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  • Was That A Bear Market?

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  • Watch The NYSE Market Leader

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