Art's Charts

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About the author: , CMT, is the Chief Technical Strategist at TrendInvestorPro.com. Focusing predominantly on US equities and ETFs, his systematic approach of identifying trend, finding signals within the trend, and setting key price levels has made him an esteemed market technician. Arthur has written articles for numerous financial publications including Barrons and Stocks & Commodities Magazine. In addition to his Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation, he holds an MBA from the Cass Business School at City University in London. Learn More

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Using Two Timeframes to Increase the Odds - Starting with the Strategic View

by Arthur Hill

Chartists looking to increase their odds should consider two timeframes for their analysis. The longer timeframe sets the strategic tone, while the shorter timeframe defines the trading tactics. Strategically, I am interested in stocks with long-term uptrends...Read More 

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Putting a Mean-Reversion Strategy Into Practice

by Arthur Hill

Mean-reversion strategies typically buy stocks when they are oversold, which means catching the falling knife. These declines are often rather sharp, but the odds favor some sort of bounce after reaching an oversold extreme...Read More 

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Apple hits Support-Reversal Zone - What is it and Why Does it Matter?

by Arthur Hill

Tech stocks were hit with selling pressure to start the year, but many are still in long-term trends and some are nearing support-reversal zones. In particular, Apple (AAPL) fell to a support-reversal zone and I am on alert for a bounce. Let's investigate...Read More 

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Momentum Madness and Nasdaq 100 Stocks

by Arthur Hill

Stocks went on a tear the last seven weeks with Nasdaq 100 stocks leading the charge...Read More 

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Is Overbought Really Bearish?

by Arthur Hill

The S&P 500 SPDR (SPY) surged over 10% since late October and exceeded the upper Bollinger Band (125,1). This means price is more than 1 standard deviation above the 125-day SMA. Surely, this means SPY is overbought...Read More 

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Long-term Breadth Indicators Hit Moment of Truth

by Arthur Hill

The percentage of stocks in long-term uptrends rebounded sharply in November and returned to the highs from late August and early September. This rebound is impressive, but the absolute levels are still not that inspiring...Read More 

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Charting the S&P 1500 Zweig Breadth Thrust - And More...

by Arthur Hill

StockCharts users can chart the Zweig Breadth Thrust for the S&P 1500 or any other index that has Advance-Decline Percent data. All we have to do its convert the Zweig Breadth Thrust levels to their equivalents using Advance-Decline Percent...Read More 

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The Zweig Breadth Thrust Triggers, but the Indicator is Missing Something

by Arthur Hill

Today's report features the Zweig Breadth Thrust, which was developed by the late, and great, Marty Zweig. Zweig appeared regularly on Wall Street Week, contributed to Barrons, published The Zweig Forecast and wrote Winning on Wall Street in 1986...Read More 

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Skip the Noise and Focus on the Signal by Effectively Using the 200-day SMA

by Arthur Hill

The S&P 500 is battling the 200-day SMA with four crosses over the last eleven days. We are also seeing a rise in volatility as this market benchmark plunged 5.86% in nine days (18-27 October) and then surged 5.85% the last five days...Read More 

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Looking Outside the Stock Market for Opportunities

by Arthur Hill

Correlations rise during bear markets. This means more stocks participate in broad market declines than broad market advances. In other words, the odds are stacked against us when picking stocks in bear markets...Read More