By Bob Stokes
1/26/2012 5:15:00 PM
Even as prices rallied, the percentage of S&P 500 stocks below their 10-week moving average indicates the advance has been weaker than many investors may realize. Take a look at the chart...
Filed Under: breadth, Elliott Wave Theorist, financial forecast, S&P 500, Short Term Update, technical analysis, technical indicators
Category: Stocks
Is the Market Close to the "Prechter Point"?
The Prechter Point is "The very center of the wave structure--the most volatile point in an impulse"
By Bob Stokes
8/10/2011 5:00:00 PM
The "Prechter Point" is the juncture of "maximum acceleration" in the Elliott wave structure of a market's trend. Is the market getting close to the "Prechter Point"?...
Filed Under: breadth, conquer the crash, Elliott wave, market forecasts, momentum, Robert Prechter, stock indexes, wave personality
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
5/23/2011 4:15:00 PM
How about the bigger technical picture? Where are we in the market's key up/down cycles? What is the Elliott wave structure showing us?...
Filed Under: breadth, Elliott wave, Elliott Wave Theorist, investor psychology, momentum, oscillators, Robert Prechter, S&P 500, sentiment, technical analysis, trendlines
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
5/11/2011 5:00:00 PM
Afternoon contra moves follow the same general principles as the morning contra moves. This move has the potential to be much more important than the morning. Learn more...
Filed Under: breadth, Dick Diamond, Fibonacci, Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD), online trading, Relative Strength Index (RSI), short selling, stochastics, technical analysis, technical indicators, Traders, trading lessons, trendlines, VIX, volatility, volume
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
1/18/2011 5:45:00 PM
He established trading principles and vowed to stick by them. As Diamond applied them, he did indeed make a comeback -- which has lasted until this very day. You can discover a few of those principles in this article...
Filed Under: breadth, Dick Diamond, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Fibonacci, investor psychology, Nasdaq Composite, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), online trading, oscillators, risk management, short selling, successful traders, technical analysis, technical indicators, Traders, trading lessons
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
1/10/2011 3:45:00 PM
The Jan. 7 issue of the Short Term Update reveals what the Elliott wave structure shows regarding when an increase in volatility is likely to happen.. Plus, that STU forecasts how much volatility to expect, by comparing today with another time of volatility (which most of us will never forget)...
Filed Under: breadth, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), market forecasts, Nasdaq Composite, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), sentiment, Short Term Update, technical indicators
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
12/16/2010 4:45:00 PM
The bull is older now than when riders jumped aboard in 2009. All indications are that he's grown weary again. But investors continue to ride, and insist that the bull is healthy and strong. You'd be amazed at what the market's technical indicators are really showing...
Filed Under: breadth, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), investor psychology, technical indicators
Category: Stocks
By Nico Isaac
6/9/2010 6:15:00 PM
Here's something I bet you never thought you'd hear from a company that prides itself on being the world's largest market forecasting firm: Taken in isolation, traditional technical indicators can bite you in the [place where the sun don't shine]. These two charts show how technical signs of strength such as breadth and momentum do not always indicate a strong market.
Filed Under: Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), technical analysis, breadth, momentum
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
4/26/2010 2:45:00 PM
The stock market too seems to have a clever mind of its own -- constantly devising ways of fooling the majority by taking almost any path other than what's expected by most. That was the stock market story of bygone days; this remains the story of today. Are the majority of investors positioned, psychologically and financially, to be fooled again -- just like they were at the October 2007 top, when the DJIA closed above 14,000 and then spent the next 18 months in the worst crash in decades?
Filed Under: Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), breadth, volume, Robert Prechter
Category: Stocks
European Stocks: It's Been Tough
These are confusing times for European investors, but there have been several important technical developments in European stocks over the past few weeks.
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
3/28/2008 5:15:00 PM
These are confusing times for European investors. Stocks are down across Europe, and the EU's economic fundamentals are spotty. However, in March the British FTSE 100 and the German DAX, Europe's two leading stock indexes, rallied above their January 2008 support levels. Plus, there have been other important technical developments in European stocks over the past few weeks, too...
Filed Under: breadth
Category: European Markets