Dig into the Stock Trends reports

  • 10 March 2012 |
  • Written by  Skot Kortje, Stock Trends Analyst
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New visitors to this website should learn how to navigate to the various trend reports available. Stock Trends is designed to help busy investors who want a clearer picture of North American equity prices and an easy way to monitor significant changes in trading volume of individual listed issues...

New visitors to this website should learn how to navigate to the various trend reports available. Stock Trends is designed to help busy investors who want a clearer picture of North American equity prices and an easy way to monitor significant changes in trading volume of individual listed issues. Every week the site reports on changing price momentum, highlighting the trends of specific sectors and stocks. Beyond providing a comprehensive breakdown of current equity trends, the weekly reports available here also isolate specific market-timing trading opportunities. Investors suited to the Stock Trends analysis – whether long-term investors or more active swing traders - are looking for the answers to these two questions: What do I buy? When do I sell it? The reports published on this site aim to help you find the answers.

The stock market has many forces acting upon it. Indeed, these forces are complex and oftentimes difficult to understand. The interconnectedness of the economy, the monetary system, and asset prices is not a simple matter to define. Media commentators and investment analysts offer much well-versed and educated storylines that frame the movements of the market, but Stock Trends attempts to simplify the chatter.
 
The reports available here reduce the broad and complex fundamental forces driving equity prices to a simple framework by categorizing price trends based on the principles of trend analysis. Every index, stock, exchange traded fund, income trust reported on here is analysed using the same parameters. The weekly reports then make it simple to compare the underlying trends and identify the market themes at work.
 
The first place to start is the Learn section. It is important to understand the trend categories of the Stock Trends indicators. Once you learn how to interpret these indicators it will become easy to use these visual cues – the trend indicator and volume symbols -when reviewing individual weekly Stock Trends reports on the market activity. The long-term parameters used should be suitable for your investment approach, so traders who are looking to be extremely active either as a day trader or for short-duration trading will not find the indicators of direct use – although they may use the reports as an initial filter.
 
The Stock Trends trend categories are designed to put the current price action into a context. For example, if a stock is up this week, the trend indicators make it easy to tell if the price movement has significance in terms of its long-term price trend. Some investors may be focused on equities exhibiting strong trending tendencies; others will be attracted to those that are reversing a previous trend.
 
The indicators act as a filter and are extremely useful in locating potential trading opportunities suitable for your investment approach. Further, the high volume indicator () helps to quickly identify traded issues that attracted investors’ attention during the weekly trading. The Relative Strength Indicator helps to easily compare price momentum (measured over the previous 13-weeks). This Stock Trends toolset of indicators allows investors to quickly focus on important changes in trend.
 
The Reports section of the website provides users with a comprehensive look at the weekly price and volume changes of listings on major North American stock exchanges, as well as weekly summaries of major international market indices. Investors would be advised to have a look at the index reports in the Reports section.
 
A good place to start is the international indexes. The relative strength and trends of these indices tells us of the global equity strengths and highlights the way international equity flows gravitate to areas where certain asset classes have strength. At times when investors move into higher risk asset classes like commodities or equities in developing economies, the relative strength of the resources-biased exchanges – like the Canadian and Australian markets – and emerging economy stocks traded in the Far East and elsewhere heightens. You can sort these reports by RSI or by percentage change over the week or 13-week periods to see which equity markets are doing better.
 
Of course, when comparing the performance of different international equities it is best to normalize for a single base currency. That way the changes in equity prices are properly comparable for investors who would be subject to foreign currency risk. The Dow Jones U.S. Dollar indexes presented put the international indexes on a common currency and allow for a proper comparison of the performance of these international markets.
 
Stock Trends is focused on North American equities, however there are many exchange traded funds (ETFs) that are listed on the exchanges covered here. Users can take advantage of the Stock Trends ETF reports for the individual exchanges and also compare the trends and relative strength of country funds or related equity class funds. You can learn to use the Stock Trends indicators to time trades in these areas as well as in individual stocks.
 
The Stock Trends indicators make for easy comparisons of the vast array of ETF’s and to quickly monitor equity flows to individual sectors and asset categories. Heightened trading volume (sometimes signalled by the high volume indicator ) is an important cue to look for. The Relative Strength indicator (RSI) and underlying trends help us focus on prime sectors that have established price momentum and market out-performance. Sometimes it is advisable to dig deeper within the sector and look at the performance of individual stocks within the group. Are consumer stocks showing strength? Look within the industry reports of Stock Trends Online, also under the Reports section, to find which stocks are leading, and which are lagging in the consumer sector.
 
Typical of trend analysis is to look for sector trends that support the trend of an individual stock. Although there are many stocks that can break out into their own trend, most often it is best that the stocks ongoing price trend is supported by money flows within its peer group. Of course, the prime condition for any stock’s performance is both sector and broad market bullishness. Everyone knows that a rising tide lifts all boats.
 
Visitors to this site will learn how to confirm whether the market tide is rising - or going out to sea. The Stock Trends Bull/Bear Ratio and Trend Distribution give us a broad market gauge of trends on each exchange. Unlike a benchmark price index like S&P 500 index, this distribution of individual trends of common stocks listed shows us how the relative price movements of all stocks are performing, giving investors an important measure of the breadth of the market. The Bull vs. Bear trend distribution reveals the foundation of the overall market.
 
Subscribers to Stock Trends Weekly Reporter receive additional guidance with weekly stock picks and filters focused on volume and relative performance. Of course, the Stock Trends Portfolios also illustrate how the trend indicators can be used in a mechanical trading system. These trading strategies exemplify a rigid rules-based methodology based on the simple indicators used in all the reports available on the Stock Trends site. The lesson learned from these model portfolios is that trading success demands not a complex system of analysis – only a systematic approach to trading.
 

 

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