AOD Watch

The former really great dividend play Alpine Total Dynamic Dividend Fund (AOD) is showing a bull signal today as it again drops below the 20-day simple moving average. With its heavy European exposure, AOD is vulnerable to fluctuations of the euro, which is down 2.4% intraday.

	trend	adx	psar	pps	macd	macd trend	sto	sto trend
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The bear phase is coming from Person's Proprietary Signal (pps) and has not yet been confirmed by the parabolic sar or the macd.

However, the volatile fast stochatic gave a bear signal on Tuesday, and the macd is dropping toward the zero line and bear phase.

AOD was once a wonder child of dividend plays, with yields exceeding 20%, paid monthly. Under pressure from the euro debt crisis, the funds managers cut the dividend beginning with July's, and the yield is now 12.45%, a poor return for exposure to currency exchange fluctuations.

The fluctuations have been so narrow that support and resistance are basically meaningless. AOD will show a significant price rise when the traders conclude that the euro is strengthening and the company's European holdings are secure from massive foreign exchange risk.

If Europe's situation continues to worsen, I look for AOD to march down in lockstep with the euro.

Disclaimer

Tim Bovee, Private Trader tracks the trades of a private trader for his own accounts. Nothing in this blog constitutes a recommendation to buy or sell stocks, options or any other financial instrument. The only purpose of this blog is to provide education and entertainment.


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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
• sto - Fast Stochastic

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.