Weekly Market Outlook – Will Overhead Hurdles Constrain? Despite Thursday's severe drubbing (the potential beginning of a bigger meltdown), stocks finished the week on a very bullish note, gaining more than 2.0% on Friday. That was enough to put the market back in the black for the week, even if just barely. The strong finish to last week, however, at...
Weekly Market Outlook – Will Overhead Hurdles Constrain? Despite Thursday's severe drubbing (the potential beginning of a bigger meltdown), stocks finished the week on a very bullish note, gaining more than 2.0% on Friday. That was enough to put the market back in the black for the week, even if just barely. The strong finish to last week, however, at...
Housing, Sentiment, Jobs, Charts, Gold It was a typical Thanksgiving week last week… very quiet. Don't get used to it though. The market's activity will perk up again this week as traders get back to their posts. As for which direction that volatility will carry the market, that's a tougher question to answer. The BigTrends TrendScore for stocks currently rests...
BigTrends.com Weekly Market Outlook It was a typical Thanksgiving week last week… very quiet. Don't get used to it though. The market's activity will perk up again this week as traders get back to their posts. As for which direction that volatility will carry the market, that's a tougher question to answer. The BigTrends TrendScore for stocks currently rests at 82.7...
Weekly Market Outlook – November 22nd, 2015 Last week a diametrical opposite to the action from two weeks ago. Two weeks ago, the bears were firmly in charge, and picking up steam. Something happened over the prior weekend though, and stocks hit the ground running higher last week… and never looked back. When all was said and done, the S&P...
Weekly Market Outlook What started out as only a modest possibility last week didn't take long to turn into the worst-case scenario. The S&P 500 (SPX) (SPY) gave up 3.6% of its value last week… the biggest weekly drop since the one that did the core of damage in mid-August. Uncertainty regarding the health of the economy after a few-too-many disappointing...
Stocks may have ended the week with a gain last week, but it didn't end the week on a bullish note. Every bit of last week's 0.9% advance (and then some) was reaped on Monday, with the market drifting lower over the course of the last three days of the week. Still, stocks hang in the balance between bullishness and...
Though last week ended up being a merely mediocre one for the stock market, the entire month of October ended up being the best month for stocks in four years. All told, last week's 0.2% advance for the S&P 500 (SPX) (SPY) meant an 8.2% advance for the calendar month. And yet, despite the decidedly bullish momentum, the indices are not...
Directional Movement Index (DMI) The Directional Movement Index, or DMI, is a moving average of range expansion during a specified period of time. In other words, it indicates how strong a trend is by looking at how significant price changes have been in a specified period of time. But, unlike most technical momentum indicators, directional movement index lines aren’t plotted...
Commodity Channel Index (CCI) The Commodity Channel Index indicator (often abbreviated as 'CCI') is a technical analysis indicator introduced by Donald Lambert in 1980. As an oscillator, it was created as — and still lends itself to — indentifying instances where a stock or index is overbought or oversold. But, as is the case with many technical analysis tools, the...
