Tag: stock market indicators

Equities have been choppy lately, making life for traders difficult. One indicator that I like to follow to gauge equities risk on/off is the...

Over the past several months, the S&P 500 has managed to climb higher while momentum is slowing and volatility is re-emerging. As we've noted several times,...

Dow theory can be a valuable tool to have in your toolkit. Especially if you keep the confirmation and non-confirmation signals in perspective of...

Many traders, especially when first starting out, focus on the individual chart of whatever they are trading. If you’re trading the S&P 500, watch...

As the markets push higher, investors tend to become more wary by nature. This often leads to the markets climbing the proverbial "wall of...

It was a great February for the stock market, as the major market indices literally went straight up. For the month, the broad-based S&P 500 was...

On Wednesday I had a conversation with Urban Carmel and Jesse Felder about measuring market breadth. If you are unfamiliar with Urban and Jesse, they are...

Stocks started 2015 inauspiciously with the S&P 500 (SPX) down 3% in January. That equates to a coin toss regarding how stocks will end the...

Major indexes find themselves at a critical juncture. On one hand, longer-term patterns are clearly bullish, the October recovery was such a statistical outlier...

We ended last week with some kind of distribution forces in the S&P 500 (SPX - Quote) as a negative outside day pattern developed. This...