Moving Averages Applied to Weight Loss

Since I’m such a fan of moving averages for investing / trading I thought this post about the Google 15 was pretty cool. The “Google 15″ is a widget / gadget which you can add to your Google Homepage to help you lose (or gain) weight. I like how they use moving averages to help [...]

Broken Moving Averages Everywhere

charts of The Nasdaq, Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR (XLY), Alcan (AL), and the S&P 500 Percent of Stocks Above 50 Day Moving Average:

Golden Cross on the Nasdaq Today

I was surprised to see that the Nasdaq made a golden cross today. Unfortunately I don’t think that pattern is actionable. But since I pointed out the death cross several weeks ago I thought it was only fair that I point out the golden cross. It is a good (bullish) sign though that the 50-day [...]

The Dreaded Death Cross is Upon Us

Last week I mentioned that there would be a death cross on the NASDAQ very soon. There’s an article over at MarketWatch that talks about the death cross that was made yesterday: Looking ahead, if you were going to draw a line in the sand, there’s a not-too-distant area on the Nasdaq that will be [...]

Time to Whip Out T2108

Worden has an indicator called T2108 which plots the percentage of stocks above their 40-day moving averages. In effect it works as an overbought/oversold indicator for the market. This is an indicator that Duru and I like to check when we get strong moves in the market. I was just instant messaging with him about [...]