Friday, May 7, 2010

5/7 Morningline: Other Indicators

Among other indicators, oil (USO) took the greatest hit, down around 2.5% from Thursday's close. High-yield corporate debt (JNK), emerging markets (EEM) and gold (GLD) were also down by more than 1% in early trading.
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stosto
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JNK $38.28
GLD $117.51
USO $36.21
EEM $37.67
EUR/USD $1.2743
USD/JPY ¥91.09
At 10:40 a.m. Eastern

No new signals.

Trading was very unstable -- all over the map, actually -- so what is now won't be later.

JNK and EEM, and possibly USO, were hit by the Skynet Panic on May 6, and so some of the technical tools are suspect when applied to those exchange-traded funds.

The Investor's Guide to Active Asset Allocation: Using Technical Analysis and ETFs to Trade the Markets

Martin Pring's detailed deconstruction of the economic cycle: What sorts stocks to look for at each stage of the recovery. A masterful analysis.



Skynet Panic of May 6
Panic Looks Like This
Skynet Panic Poisons Technical Tools


Also on Private Trader:


Indicator Exchange-Traded Fund Symbols:
EEM - emerging markets
EUR/USD - euro/dollar currency pair
GLD - gold
JNK - high-yield corporate bonds
SPY - blue-chip stocks
TLT - Treasury long-term bonds
USD/JPY - dollar/yen currency pair
USO - crude oil
VIX - fear index


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


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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