Charting Stocks

The Dow Jones Industrial Average breached its November low, closing below 7500 for the first time since October 2002.
In only 18 months, the index has given back all of the gains achieved over the previous 5 years.
The chart below shows the index taking out the 2002 lows, but keep in mind that this is a [...]

2009 will be a year of complete destruction for the US economy. 5 Million will lose their jobs. The Dow Jones Industrial average will break below 6,000. Municipalities will fail. Insurers will fail. The unemployed and foreclosed American population will take to the streets and begin rioting. The Greatest Depression is upon us.
Sound far fetched? [...]

One of the ways market technicians try to predict sector out performance is by conducting a relative strength analysis. In a bear market the price charts of most sectors and stocks are moving down with the market. Some sectors are moving down more than the market, and so they are relatively weaker, and some are [...]