Have We Hit Bottom?
Article Abstract:
A formula has been developed to help investors decide when the stock market has reached a stopping point during a decline. A major bottom can be seen in the distance between the weekly close of the New York Stock Exchange Index minus the ten week moving average of that index. This index will gauge how rapidly a market is dropping or rising. Before taking action based on this information you should wait three weeks after a divergence of 4.0 or greater to ascertain whether the reading is a fluke. If the divergence remains the same or grows smaller, the time to buy stock is at hand. Examples are given of past actions of this method. This method is not always successful, but it has a good track record.
Publication Name: Barron's
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 1077-8039
Year: 1984
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Out Front and Way Behind
Article Abstract:
An evaluation of the best- and worst-performing stocks of the stock market rally of late 1982 and early 1983 is presented. Not surprisingly, brokerage houses were among the best-performing stocks. Other winners were communications equipment, gold, cars, mobile homes, savings and loans, computer services, clothes, retailers, metals, semiconductors, newspapers, and electronic instruments. Poor performers included cosmetics, heavy machinery, coal, tobacco, beverages, natural gas, drugs, soaps, electric utilities, and telephone companies. Blue-chip stocks performed especially well, with the possible exception of Eastman Kodak.
Publication Name: Barron's
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 1077-8039
Year: 1983
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Poor but Wiser?
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An inexperienced investor recounts his journey through the stock market. Seduced by the bull market of 1982-1983, he invested in several stocks. When those stocks declined with the market, he sought advice by turning to the various theories of past and present masters. He finally reached an information overload. He realized that no one was always correct in his views. Now he has broken his habit. Though he intends to purchase some new stocks, he intends to analyze them by his own system and not try to incorporate every theory into his choices.
Publication Name: Barron's
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 1077-8039
Year: 1984
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