Sell in May and Go Away is a popular stock market adage referring to its historical underperformance between May and October. However, during this period, too, the market is known to stage a rally that the Stock Trader’s Almanac calls the “summer rally,” albeit a short one and the weakest of all four seasons, within…
The S&P 500 is trending up since bottoming on October 13, 2022. It has cleared a few critical resistance levels and broken above bullish chart patterns since then. The probability is high that the upswing will go on for some time. Monthly Timeframe Fig 1. tells a good story of the S&P 500. The logarithmic…
NASDAQ Is The Best Performing U.S. Index Before the COVID-19 induced market collapse, most major U.S. indices were making all-time highs (see Figure 1). Dow Jones Transportation Average (DJT) and S&P 500 Small Caps were two indices that reached the respective highs they made in October 2018. The February-March saw all indices sharply reach multi-year…
Broadening Pattern Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 are forming Broadening Pattern on weekly timeframes since January 2018. A broadening pattern is an inverse triangle bounded by two diverging trend line – one moving up and one moving down.Edwards and Magee wrote in their seminal book, Technical Analysis of Stock Trends: If the Symmetrical…
Friday, September 9 2016, was a panic sell day around the world when the S&P 500 broke out of its narrow range day to a large decline of more than 2.27%. It was 90% downside day – when 90% of the volume is to the downside. The market participants were nervous for quite some time and…
Monday, May 23rd 106, was a range bound day for the U.S. equity market. S&P 500 fluctuated between a high of 2055.58 and a low of 2049.06 before breaking down in the last half-hour of NYSE trading to drop to 2047.26. In the process a symmetrical triangle was formed on 30-minute time frame. This shows an…
S&P 500 has been on a roller coaster ride since November 2015. First it meandered along for a while to close the year. Then it dropped like a rock to start 2016. Then, it staged a turnaround to recover the lost ground before getting into some headwinds. But, now it is forming a bullish flag(i). The October 2014…
Late last year, the US market bottomed on November 16, 2012. Since then it has been powering higher defying all odds. During this time – 196 calendar days or 134 trading days – the index has not had a significant pullback. Before last week’s decline, it had only three shallow pullbacks averaging -3.43% and lasting…
US stock market has run through many resistance levels created over the last decade and is at a very high level. Most of the broad market indices are either at all time high or much higher than the pre-financial-crisis level achieved in 2007-2008. Dow Jones Industrial Averages, S&P 5oo are at all-time highs. So are…
Friday, November 16, 2012, saw major US indices make reversal days. Almost all – Dow Jones, S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000 – had outside reversal days. Dow and Russell 2000 also made bullish engulfing candles. In outside day pattern the high of the day is higher than the previous day’s high and the low is lower…
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