August 31, 2000

Upside Breakouts-A Good Time to Buy? -- Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

In any given day you are likely to find one stock that has gone up in price on higher than average volume. Is there any way of knowing whether this is a pump and dump or a genuine upside breakout tha...(more)

August 29, 2000

VHF Versus ADX -- Dennis D. Peterson

Two commonly used indicators for determining a trending versus non-trending condition are vertical horizontal filter (VHF) and average directional index (ADX). Unfortunately they can give different an...(more)

August 25, 2000

The Slow Stochastic -- Sean Moore

The stochastic oscillator can be used to help predict range tops and bottoms. Many variations of the indicator can be used for different trading strategies. Look for divergence between the stochasti...(more)

August 24, 2000

Whirlpool and the Relative Strength Index -- David Penn

Three successively higher peaks don't mean a thing when the relative strength index has a failure swing . . . Here is a tale of two trends....(more)

August 22, 2000

Money Management: The Overlooked Ingredient -- Dr. RM Sidewitz

A strong approach to money management can make even a mediocre trading system do well....(more)

August 18, 2000

Bollinger Bands For Support And Resistance -- David Penn

Prices that move beyond Bollinger bands often do so at their own peril as this look at Hormel suggests....(more)

August 16, 2000

Mad About MU's MACD -- David Penn

All the world's a trend and we are merely traders ... a look at the ascent of Micron Technologies through the eyes of the MACD....(more)

Accumulation/Distribution -- Dennis D. Peterson

The accumulation/distribution indicator can be very useful to confirm the accumulation and distribution phases of a stock's buying and selling, better than on-balance volume (OBV) in many instances....(more)

August 15, 2000

The Power Of Price And Volume Trends -- Han Kim

To get a better sense of where the security's price is headed, you should consider volume along with price changes. Price changes are viewed with more significance when the volume accompanying the cha...(more)

August 14, 2000

Identifying A Breakout -- Jason K. Hutson

Drawing key resistance and support levels on charts gives you entry and exit levels when trading....(more)

August 11, 2000

ADX Excel Spreadsheet -- Dennis D. Peterson

Constructing an Excel spreadsheet requires that each step of the ADX computation be stated. Shown are each of the calculations....(more)

TGEN's Bullish Breakaway Gap -- David Penn

There are gaps and there are breakouts. But a breakaway gap can be something to be bullish about....(more)

The Nasdaq Composite: Where Is It Heading? -- Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

The Nasdaq composite has been trading sideways ever since its sharp drop in April. A question dwelling on most minds is "When is the Nasdaq going to resume its upward trend?"...(more)

August 07, 2000

ADX -- Dennis D. Peterson

When looking at price action it can be helpful to see if recent price action has a trend and to evauate the strength of that trend. Average directional index (ADX) provides both....(more)

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