Category: Dow Theory

Technical pro L.A. Little sees the S&P higher

posted on: September 11, 2012

Among the see of bearishness that engulfs us, here you can find a very good technical analysis of the current situation of the stock market. Market Watch contributor L.A. Little does a wonderful job in explaining us why the S&P bull market is likely to continue. Whilst the analysis is not based on Dow Theory, […]

Dow Theory update for Sept 10. S&P, Gold and Silver: Both primary and secondary movement bullish.

posted on: September 10, 2012

Today it was time to take a breather. The stock market and the precious metals universe (including miners) went all down. What has the Dow Theory in store for us today? Not much. According to Dow Theory no technical damage has been made. Thus, the primary trend remains bullish as well as the secondary movement. […]

Why Dow Theory matters: Outstanding Risk Reward Ratio thanks to the Dow Theory’s trailing stop.

posted on: September 10, 2012

Today we have an important money making (or rather money “saving”) post. Please mind that I am writing this before the open with the closing prices of Friday, September 7. In the last Saturday’s post “The price of not heeding the Dow Theory: From 06/29/2012 to date 5.8%” (click here), I insisted that the odds […]

The price of not heeding the Dow Theory: 6.05% from 06/29/2012 to date

posted on: September 8, 2012

I frequently visit “The Big Picture” to be updated on financial matters. It is a wonderful website. Yesterday I found this post entitled “Sell Side Indicator” which you can find here The gist of the post is a chart that shows the extreme bearishness of asset managers and analysts. In other words, since the Dow […]

Dow Theory market update for Sept 7, 2012: No changes. Both primary and secondary movement bullish.

posted on: September 7, 2012

Well, nothing has changed since my last post. The Dow Theory primary bull market signals we detected in the precious metals, the precious metals miners (ETFs) and, more importantly, the stock market remain fully in force. Both the primary and the secondary trend remain bullish under the Dow Theory An image is more worth than […]

Dow Theory update: New Market highs confirm primary bull movement.

posted on: September 6, 2012

In my yesterday’s post “Dow Theory signals a new primary bullmarket in gold and silver miners” I said that the markets seemed to be “smelling” more liquidity coming. Thus, I wrote: The market is clearly telling us that the tide was turning already by the end of June in favor of more liquidity And In […]

Dow Theory signals a new primary bull market in gold and silver miners. II

posted on: September 6, 2012

Yesterdaywe discussed that a new primary bull market in gold and silver stocks was under way as per my interpretation of the Dow Theory. Today, we are going to look into the details of the Dow Theory signal. For the purposes of this post I will use the silver miners ETFs SIL (for silver miners) […]

Dow Theory signals a new primary bull market in gold and silver miners

posted on: September 5, 2012

In my posts of August 29 and 30 I said that a new primary bull market for gold and silver had been signaled by the Dow Theory. You can find the analysis I made of the gold and silver markets here and here. I wrote that the only negative note was the absence of confirmation […]

Where is the stock market now as per Dow Theory? Bull or bear? II

posted on: September 5, 2012

The market is in a primary bull market since June 29, 2012 Well, we know from yesterday’s post that the primary movement remain bullish. Today, we will further study the other two vital indices (Transports and S&P) and we will derive the implications for the investor of a primary bull market movement. I said yesterday […]

Where is the stock market now as per Dow Theory? Bull or bear?

posted on: September 3, 2012

While Dow Theory is not an exact science, I can confidently say that my interpretation of Dow Theory shows that we are within a primary bull market movement. The bull market signal was given on June 29, 2012 when both the Industrials and the S&P bettered their previous correction highs. Since then the bullish signal […]

Fundamental versus Technical analysis and Dow Theory. Who is right?

posted on: August 31, 2012

The sad truth is that whatever method you apply it is very difficult to make money in the markets. As the saying goes: It is easier to talk (or write) about money than making it. Thus, it is difficult to discern (a) the encrypted messages of technical analysis, and (b) the validity of the “fundamental” […]

The Dow Theory gives us order. It provides us with a framework to analyze the market.

posted on: August 30, 2012

We fail at making money in the markets not because of a lack of tools but because we (1) lack consistency in using our tools, (2) have an undefined time-frame and (3) lack of well defined exits (stops) Dow Theory addresses these three issues: It allows us to be consistent. Of course, to be consistent […]