$SPX up +10.8% from the low 19 trading days ago +203 points bringing the YTD gain to +0.7% — StockCats (@StockCats) October 23, 2015 most bullish analyst on the street taking a victory lap with the $SPX up less than 1% on the year — StockCats (@StockCats) October 23, 2015 hold my beer while I […]
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Author Andreas Clenow has done an outstanding job writing a landmark book for readers interested in systematic trend following of futures. He gives basic systematic trend following strategies with entry and exit parameters, position sizing, and shows the watch list for futures markets needed for proper diversification. He explains systems based on breakouts and moving
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$SPY $DIA and $IWM stay trapped under their 200 day moving averages. The daily RSI will be near overbought if they are able to breakout over their 200 days because of the speed of the rally off the bottom. The FANG group of leading stocks all have toppy charts here being rejected near overbought levels.
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With $SPY down -1.1% year to date, 2015 continues to be a flat year. I don’t understand the continuous perma-bull celebrations on the rally to nowhere. Perma-bulls and buy and hold investors have likely made few returns this year. The 70 RSI is the near term overbought resistance on the $SPY chart. The 200 day
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Year-to-date: $121 billion out of stock mutual funds $125 billion into stock ETFs http://t.co/8T4zUno2xO pic.twitter.com/7pCxWVoNNZ — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) October 16, 2015 Oh no. That’s it. The scary monster pattern is forming: http://t.co/XRdZAHXqDp $SPY $SPX pic.twitter.com/ezV08XkoS7 — StockTwits (@StockTwits) October 16, 2015 The year-to-date performance of Amazon vs. Walmart $AMZN +75% $WMT -28% CHART:
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