Charting Stocks

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose almost 240 points (3.5%) today. As mentioned in a previous post, large daily percentage gains are more consistent with bear markets than bulls. Todays rally was led by banks and REIT’s,  two of the most beaten up and oversold sectors – also consistent with a bear market correction.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 both closed below their 2002 lows.
ChartingStocks.net wrote in our 2009 forecast, contrary to Wall St consensus,  that we expect the Dow Jones to breach the 6,000 level this year and touch upon 5,800. The risk to our outlook would have come if the Dow Jones was [...]

Gold’s recent price action suggests a breakout may be near.

After consolidating for almost a year, it appears that gold may be in the early stages of another advancement. The chart below illustrates the breach of the 1 year downtrend (Red line). The RSI (bottom section) suggests that the move may have more to go as [...]

The 2008 US dollar rally is losing steam and may be coming to an end. I know that the run up in the currency left many in the financial world scratching their heads. How can the currency of a collapsing economy strengthen? Why, when trillions of new dollars are being created out of thin air, [...]

News Flash! Recession Started a Year Ago Says NBER

It must be exciting to be an economist at NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) who just recently announced that the US has been in a recession for a year. I wish I could find a job which entails telling people what happened in the stock market [...]

February 26, 2007
There’s an old saying on Wall Street–”Where the broker-dealers go, so goes the market.”
After a day of heavy selling pressure, the AMEX broker-dealer index broke below the 50 day moving average. This is not a good sign for the health of the market.
Below we see the index breaking down after todays trading.

The following [...]

Charting Stocks Weekly Update
Negative divergence has been present in the major average for the past couple of months. Meaning that while the price action of the major averages have been moving higher, some of their respective indicators have been moving in the opposite direction (lower). In a true uptrend, you’d like to see [...]