18 Jan 2025 The Dow Jones Industrial Average and The Dow Jones Transportation average both established intermediate term bottoms this past week. Remember, the primary market direction for the stock market is predicated on both of these averages simultaneously being in a primary uptrend or primary downtrend. Primary means the…
12 Jan 2025 GLD, or gold, continues to lead performance for the past 6 months. Gold prices or indication of inflation and/or geopolitical uncertainty. Stock market performance indicated by VTI and VT has backed off as discussed on the Present and Probable Market Trend posts. Long term bonds continue to…
The Dow Industrials have not found a confirmed support level since their downward trend break in December. It takes a minimum of 4 days in the method I use to confirm the bottom or top of a short term trend. A potential bottom day has not even appeared yet. The…
Graphic courtesy of http://stockcharts.com Gold, representing the market for inflation, continues to lead the pack with a 6 month change of 11.76%. The US stock market, representing economic growth in the United States trails the 6 month return of gold by approximately 3%. Long term bonds continue to be negative,…
Graphic is courtesy of http://Stockcharts.com The market always looks ahead. Prices for today are usually expectations of the future. A way of measuring different priced markets is to look at their performance over some recent period of time. Many people look at past price performance looking back even to a…
27 Dec 2024 The Dow Transportation Average broke support (went below its previous low) on 9 Dec followed by the Dow Industrials breaking support on 18 Dec. This indicates the market may be forecasting a downtrend from here. Confirmation of new support in either average has not occurred yet. Support,…
The market consistently anticipates the future. Numerous studies suggest that historical price performance can signal future expectations. Publications like Value Line and Investors Business Daily have employed past price performance, or a look-back period, to assess a security relative to others or the broader market. This Relative Price Strength ranking…
Using a method used by author Harry Browne, we will be using 4 different markets to determine the state of the economy.
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