The Dow has been moving higher the last three months with surges early in the month and pullbacks later in the month. Notice how the Dow bottomed in early September, early October and early November. Also notice how the Dow peaked in mid September and mid October. Here we are in November with an early month advance and the Stochastic Oscillator overbought. As long as the Stochastic Oscillator remains above 80, it should be considered both overbought AND bullish. Notice how the indicator remained above 80 for two weeks in September and two weeks in October (yellow areas). Currently, the Stochastic Oscillator has been overbought for two weeks in November. The red dotted lines show the Stochastic Oscillator moving below 80. A similar decline below 80 would be short-term negative and argue for a correction within the bigger uptrend. Until such a move, expect overbought conditions to remain and the short-term uptrend to continue.
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Arthur Hill, 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.
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