Thursday, April 8, 2010

4/8 Morningline: Indicators

Oil (USO) gapped down in the early going.

The EUR/USD and USD/JPY currency pairs both continued their multi-day slides.

There were several new bear signals among the suite of indicators I follow

The VIX fear index, a measure of the volatility of the S&P 500, rose, as would be expected when the blue chips suddenly decline.



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USO and EEM (emerging markets) each showed Person's Propietary signal in a bear phase this morning. Sometimes the pps can be a fleeting ghost.

The USD/JPY currency pair showed a Parabolic SAR bear signal, a much more stable flag.
trendadxpsarppsmacdmacd
trend
stosto
trend
VIX 17.72
JNK $38.45
GLD $111.84
USO $41.19
EEM $42.01
EUR/USD $1.3330
USD/JPY ¥93.02
At 10:12 a.m. Eastern

Abbreviations:
psar - Parabolic Stop and Reverse
adx - Average Directional Index
pps - Person's Proprietary Signal
ma20 - 20-day moving average
macd - Moving Average Convergence-Divergence
mfi - Money Flow Index
sto - Fast Stochastic


Exchange-Traded Fund Symbols:
EEM - emerging markets
EUR/USD - euro/dollar currency pair
GLD - gold
JNK - high-yield corporate bonds
USD/JPY - dollar/yen currency pair
USO - crude oil
VIX - fear index

About the glance: The colors indicate the state of each signal.

  • trend: Determined by the 5-day moving average, green for up, red for down, yellow for sideways
  • adx: orange for above 30-up, blue for 20-down, purple for in the middle. Red is most prone to whipsaws
  • psar, pps, macd: green for bull mode, red for bear
  • sto: green for overbought, red for oversold, yellow for the neutral zone.


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