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Stock Advance-Decline Line Foretells Job Openings -Technical …

Back in 2011, I wrote about Why Even Fundamental Analysts Should Watch A-D Line, noting that the NYSE A-D Line is very strongly correlated to corporate profits.But because the A-D Line can be calculated each day in real time, whereas corporate profits are reported with a significant lag, in effect the A-D Line gives a leading indication for what the […]

Stock Market News for August 28, 2014 – Zacks Investment Research

Benchmarks ended a listless trading session nearly flat following mixed earnings reports. Investors were reluctant to bet big bucks on a day devoid of any major economic data or news. The S&P 500 was able to end above the 2K mark, but the index witnessed its lowest intra-day trading range, swinging by only 4.54 points.For a look at the issues […]

TraderFeed: Measuring Buying and Selling Power in the Stock Market

Recent posts have focused on improved versions of standard market indicators, including sentiment, Bollinger Bands, VWAP, and ticks. One of my most challenging projects, however, has focused on the creation of measures of buying and selling pressure in the stock market. My goal in creating this measure was to follow an intuition and treat supply and demand as separate, independent […]

STTG Market Recap August 11, 2014 – Stock Trading To Go

Indexes opened up quite strongly Monday on hopes that geopolitical tensions would lessen, rallied mid morning but lots some steam as the day went by.  There is still some work to do to get comfortable with the market right now – we’ve just seen a bounce that wiped away an extreme oversold condition.  Investors were also happy with a statement […]

Hot Stocks: The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU), Citigroup Inc

The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU), declared financial results for the 2014 2ndquarter. The Company also affirmed its full year revenue outlook and narrowed its operating profit margin and EPS outlooks to the high end of the previous ranges. The Company continues to focus on executing strategies to strengthen its consumer money transfer business, with an emphasis on digital expansion; to […]

STTG Market Recap August 7, 2014 – Stock Trading To Go

Indexes opened up but could not hold gains; again very different action than we saw in June and July.  The S&P 500 fell 0.56% and the NASDAQ 0.46%.  We’ve been cautious for about a week now due to a technical breakdown and thus far nothing in the market action tells us to change course.   The normal culprit – geopolitics – […]

Intraday Movers: Nabors Industries Ltd. (NYSE:NBR), Iron Mountain …

Intraday Movers: Nabors Industries Ltd. (NYSE:NBR), Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM), YY Inc (ADR) (NASDAQ:YY), Rackspace Hosting, Inc. (NYSE:RAX)Posted by: NelsonNabors Industries Ltd. (NYSE:NBR) revealed that its Board of Directors has approved a 50% increase in the Company’s quarterly cash dividend.  A dividend of $0.06 per common share will be paid on September 30, 2014, to shareholders of record at the […]

Options Trading: When Your Stock's Broken, Don't Despair When …

In general, I don’t like throwing good money after bad by adding to a losing position.We can talk often ourselves into doing so by using phrases like “buying the dip” and “averaging down.”  But the the truth lies somewhere in between. For example, an individual stock position may go against you due to broader market or sector news. Or an ETF you […]

STTG Market Recap August 4, 2014 – Stock Trading To Go

Stocks flip flopped in the morning Monday around unchanged but rallied throughout the afternoon as an extreme short term oversold condition we noted Friday was worked off.  It is nothing to get excited about yet if you are a bull – in fact we noted there should be a short term rally coming due to how oversold the indexes had […]