Way, way, way, WAY back in the early days of my Internet career, I maintained a mailing list called "Chip's Charts" (anyone else remember? no? lol!)  In that list, I tried to keep people up-to-date with the Sector Rotation model of the business cycle.  It was basicly the same idea that underlies our current S&P Sector PerfChart tool. As you can imagine, that means that I am thrilled when I find other people using those same concepts in their own charts just like David Calloway is doing in his brand new Public ChartList.  Here's a sample: As you Read More 

Binary systems are very simple.  Basically, you select a series of technical signals and give each signal a value of +1 (bullish) or -1 (bearish).  For each chart, you then add up all of the values to get a final "score."  You then look to see if the score is above (or below) a preset threshold. Sean Gallagher's short list is a great example of a binary system in action.  While it only has 2 charts in it (currently), you can see exactly how Sean is scoring things and drawing his conclusions.  His $SPX chart includes the Dow Transports and Dow Utilities indexes Read More