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Download.DXY Ready For A Swing Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Contrary to what many hard-money devotees may believe, the US dollar may not be all washed up after all.
10-Year Treasury Yields: Up, Up, And Away?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A confirmed BOSO breakout follows both a MACD histogram positive divergence and a sizable MACD histogram peak.
10-Year Treasury Yields: Up, Up, And Away?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A confirmed BOSO breakout follows both a MACD histogram positive divergence and a sizable MACD histogram peak.
3M Moving Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After hitting a peak near $88, this stock corrected more than 20% to $68.
A Morning Star Wakes Up The Dow
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A classic Japanese candlestick pattern reveals a bottom in the hourly Dow industrials.
AAPL Bullish Reversal Setting Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After enduring a four-month long decline, shares of Apple Inc. may finally be approaching a key bullish reversal zone.
AMEX Oil Index Coming Up On Resistance
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The AMEX Oil Index is quickly approaching key overhead resistance but the longer-term picture still indicates higher prices to come.
AUD/USD: Setting Up For A Rally?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After enduring a month-long decline of more than 8%, the Australian Dollar/US Dollar currency pair may be setting up for a bullish reversal.
After Six Up Weeks In A Row ...
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The broad market has been up six weeks in a row. We look at what happens after a run like that and discover it's bearish and bullish.
Alcoa Setting Up For A Buy?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Some stocks rally quickly after making a major low, but others -- like Alcoa Aluminum -- just seem to take their sweet time.
Amazon.com Climbs Up On Lower Volume, Overheated ADX
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...New high on Amazon stock was achieved with reducing volume and slow price momentum.
An Early Trend Failure For Gold Or A Bounce Setting Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders who anticipated the likelihood of a possible double top move towards the troughline test were rewarded.
An Up Swing In Citrix Systems
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After a robust bullish breakout, Citrix Systems (CTXS) headed north and covered a relatively long distance establishing strong support.
Anadarko Antes Up A Positive Divergence
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Currently overbought, how much more upside can Anadarko Petroleum eke out?
Apple Up Against Strong Resistance
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Apple has rallied into a price area laden with multiple lines of resistance forming strong resistance that will most likely turn this market back down.
Are Energy Stocks Powering Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Positive directional movement in the daily chart of energy stocks suggests more bounce for energies.
Are You All Gassed Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The name of the game is energy, and gas is one of the cheapest available, but the gas has to be conveyed, and by pipelines. So what about a company that has both gas and the pipeline?
Autos Buckle Up For A Fall
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Auto Parts and Auto Manufacturing indexes are breaking down, and this entails an outsized move for the Auto Parts group.
BPL: Money Flow Failing To Keep Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of Buckeye Partners, LP are up by 34% since late December 2013, but technicals suggest that a pullback may be due soon.
Bearish Candlesticks Gang Up On Home Depot
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The mid-November gap has become a battle zone for Home Depot, and the two-week trading range will decide the stock's fate.
Bearish Pattern Setting Up on Facebook
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Less than four months after its IPO, Facebook bottomed at $22.67 before rallying 140% to hit a peak of $54.83 on October 18, 2013. But now the stock looks set to post a pattern that should concern anyone who thinks the stock is a hold.
Boeing - Going Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When speed resistance lines meet with a support line, it seems reasonable to expect support to hold.
Buff Up Your Moving Average by Buff Dormeier
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Moving Averages On Steroids Buff Up Your Moving Averages by Buff Dormeier Want better results? Combine your moving averages with volume and see what happens. Why should technicians only consider open/high/low/close numbers and time in forming price ave
Bulls Jump Up To Get Beat Down
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Muddled positive divergences in many averages launched rallies in late January. Will clear-cut negative divergences mark the end of those rallies?
CBRL Recovers, Continues Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...CBRL Group comes back to its previous high and now appears to be on its way up.
CHS: Setting Up For A Short?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of Chico's Fas Inc. have been struggling to regain lost ground in the wake of its summertime sell-off, but its near-term pathway looks to be back down to test a key support level.
Can The Utilities Hold Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As a head and shoulders top threatens the utilities HOLDRS, are utilities stocks experiencing a Hound of the Baskervilles moment?
Chunking Up, Chunking Down Trend Identification
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trends are fundamental to trading, but most traders lack fundamentals. Now, here's an easy way to be on the right side of the market.
Coke Gets A Leg Up On Pepsi
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Coca-Cola performed poorly in 2004, but the stock has recovered in 2005 to fill a gap and start outperforming Pepsi.
Cooking Up Trades With Adam Grimes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Adam Grimes has two decades of experience in the industry as a trader, analyst and system developer. Grimes started trading in agricultural commodities and futures. He then moved to currency futures, stock index futures, and individual stocks. His tradin
Copart Gaps Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Copart Inc. was under strong resistance, suggesting a descending rally. But the gap-up opening on Thursday has surprised market watchers.
Corning Moves Up Sharply
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Corning has a failed daily head and shoulder pattern, but has a successful bullish flag breakout on the weekly chart. This example underlines the need to examine evidence across time frames and indicators.
Cranking Up The Money Tree
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Covid changed the world forever. Can we print enough money to fix it? And what does it mean for stocks?
Darden Restaurants Eating Up The Competition
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of Darden Restaurants, the world's largest full-service restaurant chain, have risen more than 190% since making a major low in November 2008. The current technicals and fundamentals suggest even more gains may be in store for this stock.
Davita Consolidates, Starts Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Davita completes a consolidation, breaks out of 45, and seems to be entering a strong uptrend again as momentum picks up.
Diamond Offshore Drilling: Setting Up For Reversal?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of Diamond Offshore Drilling are off by more than 30% since July 2013 but have begun to bounce from major support.
Diamonds Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A diamond continuation pattern leads the way higher in this medical equipment provider.
Divergences Drive OIH Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A running positive divergence propels oil service HOLDRS to new highs.
Dollar Divergences: Up And Down
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Negative divergences took the dollar down in October. Will positive divergences bring the dollar back up a year later?
Dollar Poised To Move Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Markets climb a wall of worry, and few markets are more worrisome than the US dollar.
Dollar, Up Or Down?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The dollar has been in a downward trend since last March. However, in early November 2009, the dollar broke out above its downward sloping trendline. Once a trendline is broken the question becomes, "Has the market under study reversed its trend?&q
Dressing Up Your Future
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is there a gap between the cost of your clothes and the size of your wallet? Are brand names and popular monograms keeping you from saving for your future? Watching for sales now might help you watch the sails later in your retirement, and help keep your
DuPont Gears Up For A Move
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...DuPont gears up for a move, and we should be ready for it.
Electric Vehicles Sales are Accelerating. Check Out This Up and Comer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As electric vehicle options and sales ramp up, here is one inexpensive stock to consider.
EnerSys Sets Up For Possible Breakout
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After a successful test of a major low, EnerSys has risen more than 65% and now appears to be preparing for yet another move higher.
Energy Stocks Power Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With the DJU testing post-WTC attack lows, a number of energy stocks are working their way upward.
Facebook Facing Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of Facebook have been bullish of late. Can we expect a continuation going forward?
Facebook: Fifth Wave Up Nearing Completion?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Facebook shares have traced out a compelling five wave Elliot pattern over the past 18 months and may be due for a correction.
Fed Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is there a trend bias in weekly chart views?
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.
GM Falls And Can't Get Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...General Motors was one of the top-performing Dow components in 2006, but 2007 is not likely to be so good for GM as a bearish continuation pattern unfolds.
Gaming Grows Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Some of the best news in technology may be coming from companies dedicated to just playing around.
Gap Up Crossed Major Resistance In HUBG
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The moving average and the previous high pivot were violated by a sudden gap up in Hub Group.
Gas Prices Finally Set Up For A Fall
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After a gain of almost 30% in three months, gas futures finally look like they are a short.
Global Crossing: Support And Potential Demand Add Up To Buy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading near support and just below the squeeze trigger price, Global Crossing may be ready to move significantly higher.
Going Up: The Triangle Of Research Frontiers
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After reaching a high of 40 at the beginning of 2000, Research Frontiers trended to a low of 11.25 by March 2001. Since then, the stock has almost tripled and there may be more upside to come.
Gold SPDR Set Up For A Trend Reversal
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Besides the pitchfork, Alan Hall Andrews developed many other lesser-known methods of technical analysis. Among these is the sliding horizontal line. The sliding horizontal line along with the pitchfork shows that the Gold Shares ETF is now set up for a
Goldman Sachs: Diamonds Up and Diamonds Down
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A January diamond sent shares of Goldman Sachs up in early March. Another diamond threatens to send those same shares down in June.
Goodyear? Up Until Now, Anyway
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Up by more than 100% since June 2012, is it time for shares of Goodyear Tire and Rubber, Inc. to take a breather?
Gravity Catches Up With GRVT
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gravity Co., Ltd. (GRVY) is a developer, publisher and distributor of online games with its headquarters in South Korea. It was established in 2000 and its shares, which had been in an uptrend until a few months ago, were hit by a sudden bout of gravity,
HES: Setting Up For Breakdown
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of Hess Corporation appear to be at or very near a major high, with at least a 10-15% correction coming afterward.
Hain Celestial Comes Out Of Falling Wedge, Heads Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Hain Celestial Group breaks out of a falling wedge formation. Is it heading up?
Has The Gold Vein Dried Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Many investors have given up on gold at these extended levels, thinking that it is all tapped out. But certain technical signs suggest that we may soon be ushered into the next phase of the gold rush.
Heating Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's the short-term to near-term outlook for heating oil futures.
Hewlett Has Been Revving Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In my previous article at the end of February I suggested that the small head and shoulders top pattern would have a pullback into the $17.00 area and then drop to the buy long position of $14.00. This short was profitable at that time and I prognostica
How Does The Canadian Financial System Stack Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Canadian banks have taken less risk than those in the United States, and so do not need the massive bailout that US banks have received, but how are they doing?
How Far Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fibonacci retracement levels can help target how much of a bounce we may get in the Dow Jones 30.
How High is UP? - Part Two
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See where important resistance could be for the S&P 500 and FTSE 100.
How High is Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See where and when the relentless US stock market rally could end.
Intel Cannot Keep Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A support break and poor relative strength plague Intel and point to lower prices ahead.
Intel Gears Up For A Move
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Intel consolidates and prepares for its next move. Its on-balance volume points to a breakout, but the stock must first fill a gap.
Interview: Connecting Up With Jared Broad
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Jared Broad is founder and CEO of QuantConnect, an open-source, cloud-based algorithmic trading platform that provides tools to its community of more than 65,000 engineers, data scientists, and quantitative analysts to design and backtest trading strateg
Is Entergy Corp. Setting Up For A Move?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Support and resistance are converging, but the longer-term trend may dictate which way prices break.
Is FRX Setting Up For A Continuation Move?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After tracing out a well-formed consolidation pattern, will the new bullish breakout in shares of Forest Labs, Inc., lead to a continuation move?
Is Intel Setting Up For Another Leg Down?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Follow-through to the downside in this leading semiconductor stock could mean an especially bearish October for Intel.
Is It Time To Clean Up Your Portfolio?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are you busy putting away those winter sweaters and coats and straightening out the closet? Maybe it's time to do the same with your portfolio and yes, it can be just as easy as cleaning out your closet. And maybe even less onerous.
Is Lucent Looking Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does a positive stochastic divergence suggest brighter times ahead for the beaten and battered shares of Lucent?
Is Oil Headed Back Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders should always be wary of trading patterns before they breakout/breakdown because failed patterns can lead to large moves in the opposite direction. In this article, I will demonstrate how a failed head and shoulders in oil may now be leading to
Is The DJIA Starting A New Leg Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The DJ 30 appears to have started a new leg up. How much further might be left?
Is VIX "Spring" Setting Up to Kick the Nasdaq Down?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Market Volatility Index's (VIX) new recent lows may mean a potentially explosive move is coming by virtue of the "spring" theory.
It's Bottoms Up in the Cotton Club
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS..."Summertime and the living is easy - fish are jumping and the cotton is high." Maybe not "high" yet, but if current trends hold, cotton traders may have reason to look up.
Keep It Simple And Make Up Your Losses
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In so many ways, the simpler the system, the easier it is to work with --provided it is based on a sound principle.
Key Stocks Setting Up For Explosive Moves
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The market is still trending higher while certain indicators reveal which stocks are setting up for a runaway move.
Kinross Gold Setting Up For More Gains?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of Kinross Gold Corp. have been rising after making two successful tests of support during November, but is this rally destined to fail?
Krispy Kreme Marches Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With the formation of the candlestick charting pattern "three white soldiers" Krispy Kreme looks like it's headed back up.
Lehman Treasury Bond Fund Bumping Up Against Key Resistance
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Lehman Treasury Bond Fund has rebounded nicely off of its May low but is the rally over?
Light Up Your Trading System With CandleCode Trading by Viktor Likhovidov
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Light Up Your Trading System With CandleCode Trading by Viktor Likhovidov Market sentiment has traditionally been associated with subjectivity. Here's a method that not only adds a quantitative bent to measuring market sentiment, but can also be applied
Lilly Winds Up For The Pitch
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Eli Lilly has been consolidating since early June and the coil is winding ever tighter ahead of an impending breakout.
Looking At Two That Were Way Up There Once
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here are two shares that were way up there and are now way down there.
Major Low Coming Up For DD?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Down by more than 17% since September 21, 2012, shares of DuPont are likely getting close to completing a significant multicycle low.
Manhattan Associates Filling Up The Gap
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is MANH undergoing a simple gap-filling process or a trend reversal rally?
Materials Move Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After a brief, three-day pullback, basic materials stocks look to resume their advance.
Mayers Industry Is Gearing Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A strong bullish rally of Mayers Industry has breached a moving average resistance. The stock is consolidating at a newly formed support.
Muscle Up Those Averages
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading the currency markets means you need to be well aware of global macro and micro economic variables. But when it comes to trading these markets, simple is better. Find out more through this example of the EUR/USD currency pair.
NRG Fueled Up For A Run Higher?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of NRG Energy, Inc., appear to have been given a go-ahead long entry setup on its daily time frame.
Nasdaq Moving Up, But How Far?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After a period of sideways consolidation, this high tech index surges higher looking for some upside gains.
Network Appliance Heats Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This data management company was named by "Fortune" magazine as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" for the fourth consecutive year.
Now, Set Up The Process
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Last time, we covered the basics of what a system is, why you need one, and how to find one. This time, you will learn how to design and test a system, whether it is your own or someone else's.
Oil All Dried Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of USO may be breaking out of a Fibonacci fan pattern.
Oil Services Index Bumping Up Against Key Resistance
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Oil Services Index recently put in a short-term bottom but the jury is still out as to whether or not the group can move higher.
Oil, All Dried Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The uptrend in oil appears to be all dried up.
Oshkosh Corp-Gap Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Oshkosh Corp is in a stable uptrend and in a bullish environment. The gap up breakout rally has recently hit a resistance level.
PLAY is Eating Up The Competition
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. (PLAY) has fired off a long signal and has momentum to go higher.
Pfizer - Big Move Up In October?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See why an interesting historical precedent could provide clues in 2020.
Plowed Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a midterm outlook for soybean and corn futures markets.
Plump Up Your Portfolio
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Enhance your portfolio returns by knowing -- and exploiting -- different investment styles.
Power Up Your Indicators With Jean Folger
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Jean Folger is a technical analyst and system researcher with PowerZone Trading, a company she cofounded. She is author of Make Money Trading: How To Build A Winning Trading Business, and a private trader specializing in the emini markets. PowerZone Trad
Precious Metals Turn Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Tick ups in the MACD histogram and upward "buy hooks" in the stochastic oscillator point to higher prices for silver and gold in the near-term.
Pump Up The Volume by Todd Krueger
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Pump Up The Volume by Todd Krueger Here's how you can use Wyckoff volume analysis to trade the forex markets. IT is a nearly universal belief among forex traders that volume analysis techniques cannot be utilized in their market analysis. This belief
QQQQ On Last Leg Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...QQQQ is now on its last leg upward of its ABC zigzag bear market corrective rally. Once the market correction has completed, look for the next lower price target for QQQQ to be around 24.77.
Russell 2000 Gears Up For A Move
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Russell 2000 remains in a tight consolidation, and the impending break could have far-reaching consequences.
Ryder Fuels Up On Big Volume
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ryder Systems bounced off support with big volume, and a resistance breakout looks imminent.
Ryland Group Looking For A Move On Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Hard to believe, but some homebuilding stocks are actually on a tear.
S&P 500 Bumping Up Against Resistance
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As expected, the broader market put in a short-term bottom but prices are now facing resistance.
S&P 500: Diamond Up or Down?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Starting October with a rally, the S&P 500's next move may be on the other end of a diamond.
SHPG Powers Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Three key factors are driving SHPG higher but one giant technical indicator is indicating the best is yet to come!
SIDEBAR: Ode to the Sow or Bellies Up by Wilbur Corella
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...SIDEBAR: Ode to the Sow or Bellies Up by Wilbur Corella
SIDEBAR: SETTING UP AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...SETTING UP AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET Following is an example of setting up an Excel spreadsheet for creating a forecast using a five-day linear regression for tomorrow's close. Sidebar Figure 1, Column A, lists the dates and Column D lists the closing prices
Set Up Your Trades With The Swing Indicator by Teresa Lo
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:9 (46-56): Set Up Your Trades With The Swing Indicator by Teresa Lo Knowing when and where classic chart patterns tend to form is as important as identifying the patterns themselves. Here's how one trader uses a combination of indicators and simpl
Setting Up an Excel Spreadsheet for the Forecast Oscillator
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This article is reprinted from Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine, Volume 10, Issue 5 to supplement my recent article "Forecast Oscillator".
Silver's Going Up But What's The Best Way To Play It?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Following its $48 high in April 2011, silver got hammered, dropping to a low of $18.51 in June 2013. Now that it's rising again, where is the best place to be?
Silver: Up For The Downstroke?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With a completed breakdown from a rising wedge, silver has moved to multimonth highs. Does that make it time to turn bullish?
Sizing Up For Success by John Sarkett
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sizing Up For Success by John Sarkett Here's a look at how an option trader started small and graduated to trading "more size." True to his name, option trader Tony Sizemore trades "more size" than most. After a long career in mortgage lending, which i
Small-Cap Growth Setting Up A Long Trade
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Small-cap growth stocks often lead the way higher after bear market declines.
Speeding up the oscillator by Grady Garrett
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Speeding up the oscillator by Grady Garrett In 1986, I began a study of Standard & Poor's 100-stock Index (OEX) in search of a reliable mechanical trading indicator. This was a volatile time for the OEX-- the bull market was getting its second wind and I
Spike Up The Volume by Giorgos Siligardos, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:6 (30-37): Spike Up The Volume by Giorgos Siligardos, Ph.D. A long spike appearing in the volume histogram usually catches your attention. But how do these spikes in volume really affect indicators and prices? Volume can be c
Spinnaker Exploration Coming Up On Significant Resistance
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Spinnaker Exploration looks to have completed the final leg of its one-year downtrend. With the technicals indicating a potential downside reversal in the near-term, investors should consider future weakness as a good buying opportunity.
SteinMart Up 1,160% In Six Months
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Its not often that you see a stock rise more than 1,000% in six months, but that's what we're looking at now. Even better, the stock's earnings estimates trend is projected to rise dramatically throughout 2009-10.
Step Up To Trade At The NYMEX by Victoria Woolley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Step Up To Trade At The NYMEX by Victoria Woolley How do you get to be a floor trader at the New York Mercantile Exchange? Like Broadway, it's practice, practice, practice. Ever wonder what the training process is for new options traders, how their per
Step up to the window by Alan Hanson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Step up to the window by Alan Hanson As a newly-licensed floor broker handling orders for a major Chicago commodity broker, I enjoyed expressing my own market theories and opinions to the older members of the exchange. My ideas were important to me, but
Stochastics Size Up Sears For Sale
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Who knew more about Sears' "hidden value," Eddie Lampert or the positive divergence in the 7,10 stochastic?
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.
Stocks - Up, Up and Away!
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...US stock indices appear to have begun a new up leg. How much higher could they go? Elliott wave analysis may have the answer.
Stocks - Up, Up and Away!
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...US stock indices appear to have begun a new up leg. How much higher could they go? Elliott wave analysis may have the answer.
Suncor Energy Heats Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Albert Einstein said that energy cannot be created or destroyed. The energy we use in our everyday life must therefore be released from wherever it is confined, whether it is in oil, or atoms. Right?
Syntroleum Setting Up For Bullish Breakout
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sometimes it pays to keep tabs on lower-priced stocks in volatile industry groups. One such stock with a history of successful breakout/trend moves may be offering traders yet another chance to profit.
TSO Movin' On Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of Tesoro Corp. are poised to make an attempt to make a new multimonth high -- if the broad market cooperates.
Technical Indicators Add Up To A Long For Korn/Ferry
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As layoffs mount, staffing companies can profit by helping to locate replacements for senior managers and offering consulting services to help with the changing corporate culture. That's what Korn/Ferry can do.
The Dollar Firms Up And Gold Melts
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The U.S. interest rate scenario has a profound effect on the U.S. dollar as well as gold. As the Fed changed a couple of words in its policy statement, the effect on the charts is clearly visible. While the U.S. dollar has started to firm up, gold has
The NASDAQ 100 Winds Up For The Pitch
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A narrowing consolidation can't last forever, and the NASDAQ 100 looks poised to break the recent trading range. Here's what to look for.
The Next Leg Up For The S&P 500
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A bullish consolidation pattern and a recent break in resistance could lead to higher prices for the index.
Things Are Looking Up For Natural Gas
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Natural gas looks to have put in a significant bottom, as October's falling wedge breakout has held up thus far.
Tiffany Gap Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The short-term bearish reversal formation of the Consumer Discretionary SPDR is likely to affect one of the sector's strong stocks. Let's go through the trading strategy for the particular stock as well as the index.
Time Warner Coming Up On Key Resistance
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Though a significant resistance area is approaching, Time Warner may have the power to break through.
Tollgrade Gaps Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A gap up and MACD crossover point to higher prices for Tollgrade Communications.
Turn Up The Volume
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Most traders use some form of volume analysis; here's a look at a unique way to measure the current momentum of the volume trend in your favorite markets.
Two ETFs Based On IBD Indexes: Do They Live Up To Their Classic Approach?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...IBD is a weekly financial newspaper well-known for its extensive stock market data crunching and top stock rankings. Here, we'll look at two ETFs that use stock-selection strategies developed and made famous by IBD. We'll begin with a review of IBD's his
US Dollar Index Perks Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After holding above its November low, the US Dollar Index looks poised for a run toward long-term resistance.
USAP Gaps Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...USAP breaks out of long range-bound period, offers gap-up buying opportunities for traders and investors.
United Rentals Moving On Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of United Rentals continue their march higher, and the technicals suggest further upside is possible.
Up Goes Titan Machinery?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Titan Machinery represents a diversified mix of agricultural, construction, and consumer products dealership across much of the upper Midwest. Is it going up?
Up Or Over For Retail Stocks?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Retail stocks are poised to move vertically in the near-term ... that, or smash into support like a bug against a windshield.
Up Popped Corn
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A negative stochastic divergence and a TRIX buy signal show the way higher in July corn.
Up, Up And Away
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When one discovers a share that simply goes up and up and up, do you buy it?
Up, Up And Away
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When one discovers a share that simply goes up and up and up, do you buy it?
Utility ETFs: Power Up With Dividend Payers?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Investing in our infrastructure power is critical to our daily lives. Without adequate energy, our country would grind to a halt. Conservative investors may want to invest a portion of their funds in this defensive sector for capital appreciation and div
WMB Gives Yet Another Buy Signal As Market Heats Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When the broad market finally gets in gear and starts to move in concert, it's amazing how similar the chart setups look in the various stocks that fire buy signals.
Weyerhaeuser Pumps Up The Volume
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Signs of relative strength and increased buying pressure point to a resistance breakout in Weyerhaeuser.
What's (Not) Up With Biotechs?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In Q1-2104, biotech companies are up nearly 15% YTD. But they were up nearly 35%. What happened?
What's Up With Amazon?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...AMZN stock has been on fire since bottoming in November 2008. But the same can't be said for revenues and earnings. So why has the stock soared?
What's Up With Apple?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Barclays Bank cut their target for Apple shares from $121 to $115 last week.
What's Up With Apple?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...AAPL stock looked like it was ready to bottom in early March 2013, but then the picture changed. So what's next for this troubled tech?
What's Up With Canadian Natural Resources?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...January wasn't a great month for US stocks but this resource company has strongly outperformed since the beginning of 2014. In this article we examine what's behind this strength.
What's Up With Cisco Systems?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A triangle formation bodes well for higher prices in the near-term for Cisco.
What's Up With EVC?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It isn't often that a $6 stock exhibits a combination of a bullish chart pattern and strong fundamentals. Here's one that has both.
What's Up With Lucent?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Lucent Technologies (LU) bottomed on October 11, 2002 at 0.55 cents. Since that time it bounced up as high as $2.75 on May 29, 2003. Of course, all equities have come way off of the bottom, but some, like Lucent, have taken their time to form consolida
What's Up With The Intermarket Disconnect?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks continued to ignore the usual September perils to mid-month. But here is another indication that not all is going swimmingly in global markets.
What's Up With These Big Rallies?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The March 24 rally made history. But does it or others like it, mean the worst is over?
When A Share Goes Up And Up And Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What do you do when a share keeps rising? Do you pick a target and sell or do you ride the trend?
When A Share Goes Up And Up And Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What do you do when a share keeps rising? Do you pick a target and sell or do you ride the trend?
When A Share Goes Up And Up And Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What do you do when a share keeps rising? Do you pick a target and sell or do you ride the trend?
Why Is Cognizant Technologies Going Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...From $1.50 to $50-plus in 11 years, and still going strong. Why?
Will EM Catch Up With US Markets Amid Trade Optimism?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ongoing US-China trade optimism has not given emerging markets the lift that Wall Street has enjoyed. But could that be about to change?
Will The Real XAU Volume Please Stand Up? by James Kellndorfer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...V. 22:3 (56-61): Will The Real XAU Volume Please Stand Up? by James Kellndorfer There's more to volume than meets the eye. One of the questions facing technical analysts today is deciding which dataset to use. This dilemma, which recently exposed the ug
Will the Transports Lead the Industrials Up?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As the Industrials successfully test a range bottom, the Transports move toward a test of an intermediate top.
Working Money: Has The Gold Vein Dried Up?
Xerox Setting Up For A Bullish Reversal?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of Xerox Corp. are in a near-term downtrend but may be approaching a key support and/or reversal zone soon.
Yahoo Gaps Up
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Will the trend reversal breakout pull Yahoo higher?
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