Technical Analysis
ISIS: Technical Analysis Case Study
This is a follow up to my post, “ISIS Pharmaceuticals breaches long term support.” As many of you may know, posts from this blog are often (though not always) syndicated on SeekingAlpha.com. In the case of my previous post on ISIS, I caught significant flack from the SeekingAlpha community. Among other things, I was accused [...]
read more »Technical analysis is not clairvoyance
Been meaning to write this post for a while, but it seems that my patience has paid off as I have even more chart evidence to work with. And, that is the main point of this post. Technical analysis is not a means for predicting the future. That may seem paradoxical to those who have [...]
read more »The trend is your friend, even in this market
A reader of my last post on Google’s current stock performance, took issue with my statement:
It is interesting to note that, in the area marked in the above graph, all short term indicators were overwhelmingly positive just before Google’s swift and violent correction over the last month.
The reader was clearly a technical analysis skeptic and [...]
Technical Analysis for Fundamental Investors
I haven’t written about technical analysis in a long time. Given my shift away from trading and technical analysis to a more long term value focus, it’s probably to be expected. But, I realize that a lot of investors out there have their interest piqued by technical analysis and hope to incorporate it in their [...]
read more »Dow Theory (Part 3)
In the final post on Dow Theory, we examine how Dow Theory applies as a broad market indicator. If you need to catch up, you can read the other two posts – An Overview of Dow Theory and Using Dow Theory to Identify Trends – by clicking the links. To some degree, this is a [...]
read more »Dow Theory (Part 2)
Back to the post series on Dow Theory. Today, we’ll look at how to use Dow Theory when examining an investment. Dow Theory’s basic tenets actually lend themselves to a very successful market timing strategy, though some argue that it is a little too reactionary and not necessarily the most efficient way of timing in [...]
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