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DownloadAMEX Oil Index Currently Testing Downtrend Resistance
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The AMEX Oil Index continues to move higher after breaking out of a falling wedge formation. However, long-term downtrend and Fibonacci resistance could turn back prices in the near-term.
Airline Index Testing a Bottom Hammer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A previous pattern has come into play again as this index tries for another bounce up via the recent bottom hammer.
Alcoa Testing Major Trendline
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A double bottom formation on the weekly chart for Alcoa Aluminum provides some hope. However, a large double top on the monthly chart doesn't share the same optimism.
Amex Natural Gas Index: Testing Supports
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A fast move to the downside brought prices to the first support level.
Amgen Testing Key Support
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Amgen failed to break above an important trendline in September, but the recent support test looks successful and this could foreshadow a breakout.
Apache Corporation Testing Key Resistance
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Apache Corp. has been in a steady uptrend for the last 10 months but is now approaching a key resistance level.
Back Testing The Daily Sentiment Index by Lee Ang
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V13:06: (255-259): Back Testing The Daily Sentiment Index by Lee Ang Market traders and advisors use sentiment surveys as a tool to identify extreme bullishness or bearishness. Here, then, is one trader's research into identifying what the best levels o
Best Buy Co. Testing A Double Top
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As the markets bounce, many stocks will try to follow, including Best Buy Co.
Channel Testing
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As gold reenters a trend channel from which it recently emerged, gold stocks slip closer to support at the lower boundary of their trend channel.
Creating prices for system testing by D. Howard Phillips
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Creating prices for system testing by D. Howard Phillips Technical trading systems are evaluated using historical, real-time or computer-generated data. All three data sources are useful, but computer-generated data can be the most powerful. In particul
Dell Testing Another Layer Of Support
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...One area of key support has already been taken out. Can Dell hold the next line?
Developing And Testing A Trading Strategy From The Vault
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A dive into this magazine's vast article archives can provide you with myriad ideas for trading strategies to develop and test. Here's an example of doing just that by returning to the very first issue of this magazine to pull out a trading idea. Will it
Devon Energy Testing Key Resistance
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Devon Energy faces a tough task in the near term.
Dow Chemical Testing Key Support
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dow Chemical led the materials sector higher from mid-August to early December, but a double top is taking shape with signs of distribution.
Dow Transports Testing Key Support
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Dow transports show good relative strength and recently formed a potentially bullish pattern.
EnCana Corporation Testing Key Support
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...EnCana Corporation's triangle breakout is in jeopardy if the stock cannot hold support at current levels.
Forward Testing by Martha Stokes, CMT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Forward Testing by Martha Stokes, CMT A Solution To Backtesting A simple technique, it can reveal the true profit or loss capabilities of a trading system. Backtesting has been popular among traders for many years. The concept is that you take a set n
Four Common Errors In Testing Trading Systems by Thomas A. Meyers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Four Common Errors In Testing Trading Systems by Thomas A. Meyers The author of The Technical Analysis Course debuts as a Stocks & Commodities writer with this article. Here, Thomas Meyers explains that mistakes made in systems testing can make the diff
General Electric Co. Testing Major Support
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...General Electric (GE), one of the market's bellweather stocks, has been sliding down hard. It has now reached an important support level, will it hold?
Internet HOLDRS Testing Support With Two Harami
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Two bullish candlestick reversals show promise for the Internet HOLDRS, but these have yet to be confirmed, and momentum favors the bears.
Morgan Stanley Is Testing Resistance Levels
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In the long term, prices are developing a sideways move.
Quick Scan: Jack Schwager's Complete Guide to Designing & Testing. . .
Quick Scan: Jack Schwager's Complete Guide to Designing & Testing. . .
S&P 500 Index Testing Key Support
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The S&P 500 Index has pulled back to significant support, which may provide a good buying opportunity in the near-term.
SIDEBAR: TESTING INDICATORS FOR PROFITABILITY
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...TESTING INDICATORS FOR PROFITABILITY In our first study of 34 indicators, MicroVest's BackTrak was used to simulate optimization using three strategies: speculation, hedging for a commercial holding a long position in the cash yen market and hedging for
SIDEBAR: Testing your macros
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Testing your macros The lines between the {Down} macros separate the processing. Each macro is a separate line and you rename each macro as '\x in order to test it separately. You can use other letters if you choose. I always use '\x for test macros in
Selecting The Best Futures Price Series For Computer Testing by Jack Schwager
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Selecting The Best Futures Price Series For Computer Testing by Jack Schwager One problem that traders studying commodity markets face is the fact that individual futures contracts have price characteristics that are not continuous with other contracts
Small Caps Testing Important Support
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Small cap stocks, which led the market higher in 2003, are testing an important support level that could hold the key to the overall market.
TSX Energy Index Testing A Breakout Level
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This Canadian Energy Index has been lagging its American counterparts and now hints at wanting to go higher.
Testing And Validating A Trading Model
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stress tests? Scenario tests? Out-of-sample backtests? Monitoring? Paper trading? How can you decide a trading system is worthy of using? Last time, we presented the N-CAMA model, and tests were favorable. Has it generated profits on live data? Here's a
Testing ChatGPT's Potential For Systematic Trading
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders want to know: How can the new AI technologies be harnessed for their trading? Can they be used to help you create effective trading strategies? Here's a look
Testing Dollar Cost Averaging
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Passive investment strategies such as dollar cost averaging are back in fashion, but do they deliver as promised?
Testing Exit Strategies by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., and Donna L. McCormick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Testing Exit Strategies by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., and Donna L. McCormick Everyone's looking for entry trading signals, but what about after you're in the trade? Last time, Katz and McCormick looked at different techniques for making a graceful -- and
Testing Indicators by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Testing Indicators by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. Analysts consult scores of indicators to get clues for the future. At any given instant, however, some of the indicators are bullish and some are bearish. They are never unanimous. Which should we believe?
Testing Point & Figure Patterns
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Considered to be a superior charting technique by some technical analysts, objective testing reveals the truth about simple point & figure chart patterns.
Testing Signal Efficacy by Jeff Parent
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Testing Signal Efficacy by Jeff Parent Here's how you can evaluate how effective your trading system is. ot unlike new pharmaceutical drugs, buy and sell signals must be put through rigorous tests to determine their usefulness. Only when signals prove
Testing The Breakout
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...For all the concern over the January 2005 correction, the market is still just testing its November 2004 breakout.
Testing The Breakout
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The NASDAQ 100 drifts toward support at the level of its recent breakout.
Testing The Breakout
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The current correction in the Dow Jones Industrial Average so far reflects little more than testing former resistance for present support.
Testing The Channel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An early November channel breakout + an early December test of resistance-turned-support = higher prices for the S&P 500 in the near term.
Testing The Engulfing Bullish Pattern
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Identifying chart patterns is often subjective. Is there a way to objectively backtest chart patterns? It can be a challenge but here's one way to do it
Testing Trading Rules Over Different Time Periods by John Sweeney
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Testing Trading Rules Over Different Time Periods by John Sweeney After two Sundays of dinking around (Settlement, STOCKS & COMMODITIES November and December 1991), I'd finally converted a chance idea to something with remotely promising prospects somet
Testing breakout systems by Steve Notis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Testing breakout systems by Steve Notis Breakout or volatility systems comprise a large portion of the current glut of publicly offered trading systems. Many of these systems sell for $3,000 or more. For that price you usually get a nice software packag
The AMEX Oil Index is Testing Key Resistance
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The AMEX Oil Index (XOI) has been capped by its 50-day moving average since July of this year. With this moving average coming into play once again, could the XOI be setting up for a short-term top?
VALE: Testing Major Support
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Negative momentum on three of its key time frames suggests that shares of Vale S.A. may still have more downside as the second quarter of 2014 approaches.
Walk-Forward Testing by Jack L. Weinberg
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 27:01 (48-53): Walk-Forward Testing by Jack L. Weinberg Here's how you can use walk-forward testing as a tool to compare trading systems and gain insight into comparing the future performance of systems. Recent advances in tradi
Working Money: Testing Point & Figure Patterns by Michael J. Carr
Xilinx Testing Critical Support
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Weak relative strength and a new low in on-balance volume point to a support break in Xilinx.
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