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XLE ratio analysis worked well, this time
Posted on January 23, 2016 Leave a Comment
1/23/2016 – wanted to show these charts again. they are all ratio analysis of XLE (energy) versus the major components of the S&P. Ratio analysis w/ pattern recognition is very powerful. all of these patterns hit, oil moved down to the 25-27 area, the OSX/NYA ratio worked and Oil popped and the Loonie got 500+ […]
continuing to work a long Loonie potential- more
Posted on December 21, 2015 Leave a Comment
am looking at the relative strength of the XLE versus components of the S&P that make up more than 10% of the S&P. sure looks like the RELATIVE STRENGTH of XLE is about to start outperforming the larger components of the S&P based on patterns. of course, the patterns can always fail and the drift of […]
PATTERN repeat, watch for them at tops and bottoms
Posted on August 13, 2015 Leave a Comment
I’ve blogged a bunch about the power of using technical analysis and ratio analysis. you don’t have to read a 500 page diatribe about the fundamentals (which are important) but you plot A/B and see if it’s going UP or DOWN. UP A is outperforming .. DOWN and A is underperforming. DONE. so as everyone […]
Continuing to watch the components (>10%) of the S&P 500 – an update
Posted on June 7, 2014 Leave a Comment
CLIFF NOTES: the biggest development of this past week was the CLOSE above our pattern level on the XLF. It is my belief, and history has shown, that the banks LEAD us UP and LEAD us DOWN. As long as the banks are stable, this market will continue it’s “Wizard of Oz’s” climb …also, my […]
the importance of the recent reweight in the S&P 500
Posted on December 21, 2013 1 Comment
yesterday was a quarterly option expiration AND an important S&P reweighing .. our last post at the sectors of the S&P 500 were dominated by technology, energy and financials … that changed, pretty substantially. now, hot of the presses the sectors are: information technology 18% : using VGT as a proxy. see chart below. SELL […]
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