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5 Types Of Technical Indicators For Creating A Trading System How to develop a trading system Back-Testing Each trading system has to have an edge. The edge is what should make your system have positive expectancy. In other words it must be profitable over the
What Stocks & Sectors Top Hedge Funds Are Buying (And Selling) Funds increase bet in consumer discretionary, Google present in majority of funds Q1 2013: Funds Increase Bet in Consumer Discretionary Stocks The 50 largest hedge funds increased their equity exposure by over 5% in
Stocks Ignore Shaky Economic Data – Weekly Market Outlook Another week, another record high. Nothing new there, though at this point the market’s gotten uncomfortably overbought. The rationale side of your brain says that’s a reason to sell… or at least stop buying. Yet, the
Performance Divergence Of Utility Stocks Is A Concern For An Overextended Market Spotting & Timing Stock Market Tops Since the middle of April, everyone and including their grandmother seems to have been building a short position in the equities market and we know picking tops or bottoms
Rising Sun Redux – International ETFs Lag The US, Except For Japan It’s been another strong year for the US markets in 2013 thus far (as we had forecasted after the first few weeks of the year). But many international single country exchange traded funds
Chalk Up Another One For The Bulls – Weekly Market Outlook Chalk another week up for the bulls – the third winning week in a row, and the fifteenth winner for the past nineteen weeks. Oh yeah, we hit new all-time highs in the process….
6 Key Questions Say Bull Market Can Continue 'Bear Market Checklist' Goes a Perfect 0-for-6 David Darst has six boxes on his bear market checklist, and none of them are filled in yet. The Morgan Stanley chief investment strategist is a realist – cautious but
Are Stocks Already in a Parabolic Bubble Formation? Euphoria Phase Turns into the Parabolic Phase The euphoria phase of the bull market that I warned about months ago is now beginning its final parabolic phase. I’m guessing we still have another month to month and
Golf & Trading Several years ago, I had a very long conversation with some associates about how playing golf and trading the markets are similar. Many other traders have made the very same connection. One fellow in particular shared his favorite quotes about the game of golf
What Comes Next After All-Time Highs – Weekly Market Outlook Through the end of Thursday, it just looked like the market was due for another dance with all-time highs (which was also its recent ceiling). With Friday’s surge, though, not only did stocks collectively punch
The Modern Art of Tape Reading & 6 Favorite Trading Indicators The Old Days Tape reading, as I define the art form, is the unemotional analysis of the trend of stock valuation culled by the cause of that change in value, the velocity of that
Bubble Forming in Dividend Stocks & Bonds? Where is the Larger Bubble: the S&P 500 Index or U.S. Treasuries? W’ve have a plethora of companies reporting earnings and are moving through the 1st Quarter earnings season at a rapid pace. Thus far, earnings have been far from
Slowly Chugging Economy – Weekly Market Outlook Though the bears took a toll two weeks ago, the bulls weren't willing to yield control for two weeks in a row. That's a major victory too, considering that stocks were nearly on the brink of a significant
The Danger of Being a Perma-Bear (or an Early Bear) Who’s Going To Be The Last Bear Standing? With the market sitting at virtually all-time highs, everyone is starting to wonder when the next correction will set in. Every slight 2% stumble in the major
Multi-Year Lows in Companies Beating Earnings & Revenue Estimates Mediocre Earnings and Revenues Below is an updated look at the earnings and revenue beat rates for stocks that have reported so far this earnings season. Last week this data stood at 58% for the earnings
Watch the 15 Year Trendline – Weekly Market Outlook Stocks may have ended the week on a high note with Friday’s 0.88% gain, but it was nowhere near enough to undo the losses suffered earlier in the week. When it was all said and done,
Sector Breadth Breaking Down and Moving Averages Violated Breadth Drops The S&P 500 (SPX) (SPY) closed below its 50-day moving average for the first time all year this week, so below is an updated look at where the individual stocks within the S&P 500 stand
5 Technical Analysis Indicators and Chart Patterns to Watch Five technical indicators every stock trader should know In order to become a successful investor, we need to be able to develop two distinct sets of skills. They are commonly known as fundamental and technical analysis.
Fibonacci and Key Levels – Inside an Eventful Week for Stocks and Commodities First, our thoughts are with those affected by the tragedy in Boston. After a quiet time in the markets with steady gains throughout 2013, it’s been a wild and woolly run in the
Stocks Continue To Wow, But Earnings & Seasonality Loom - Weekly Market Outlook Wow. Even the bad days aren’t so bad in the current environment. After four straight gains over the course of the first four days of last week, what started out as a pretty
