For example, after a new rally in the market begins, we look for confirmation of strength and institutional participation in the form of a follow through day (FTD): a day where a major index is up at least 1.7% in price with higher volume than the previous day.
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He scans the reported big gainers and losers each day and looks for overreactions to bad news or even something as simple as a company being removed from a major stock index.
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If you look at a chart of any major index for those 18 years, you have a giant bull market.
Rafael Coven, the adviser to the underlying index for PZD, noted that the poor performance of most renewable energy stocks in 2010 was a major reason why Cleantech Index-based funds (such as PZD) significantly outperformed their peers.
At the moment, the stronger U.S. dollar index is a major bearish factor for the gold market.
The stronger U.S. dollar index is a major bearish factor for the precious metals markets and did limit buying interest not only in gold and silver Thursday, but also across the entire raw commodity spectrum.
Croesus first wrote about Markit in August 2007 (see "Profiting from the Meltdown"), in a story about how a few major firms created an index of subprime mortgages (ABX) and one for leveraged loans on their balance sheets that needed to be hedged (LCDX).
The stronger U.S. dollar index is also a major bearish factor for the precious metals markets.
Russell Growth put Exxon in its index recently at a major weighting of 4.8 percent.
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The 200-day is a major, major support level, so its important to see how a stock or index handles a break of it over the subsequent 1-3 days.
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Typically this index of Diversified REITs forms a major low on November 23 and rallies into early February.
The dollar index remains in an overall technically bearish posture, but there are now technical and fundamental clues that the index may have put in a major low.
The index measures the dollar against a basket of other major currencies, including the euro, yen, U.K. pound, Australian dollar, Canadian dollar, Swiss franc and Swedish krona.
The CCI is a basket of 17 major raw commodity futures prices rolled into one composite index price.
In another sign the market was in a defensive mode, the Dow Jones Utility Index was the only major barometer to move higher, gaining 3.07 points to 433.44.
The internet giant and abettor for college term papers is facing a legal obstacle against its plans to scan and index books from three major university libraries.
The Shift Index is a great piece of work that certainly indicates, yes, major companies do decline.
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The Nikkei was helped higher by another surge in major index constituent Fast Retailing, which jumped 8.1% to a fresh all-time high.
The dollar index, which measures the greenback's performance against a basket of six major currencies, fell to 81.99 from 82.39.
Google, Exxon Mobil, Microsoft, General Electric, Apple et al. Look at all major sectors in the index and decide whether they are likely to prosper in a tepid business cycle.
The Waltons were the biggest gainers of the day on the Forbes Real-Time index, which tracks the gains and losses in major public holdings of a select group of billionaires.
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The dollar index bulls have the solid overall near-term technical advantage, which is a major bearish underlying factor for the precious metals markets.
The dollar index bulls have the overall near-term technical advantage, which has been a major underlying bearish factor for the precious metals recently.
The dollar index bulls still have the solid overall near-term technical advantage, which is a major bearish factor for the precious metals markets.
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The dollar index bulls still have the solid overall near-term technical advantage, which is a major near-term bearish factor for the precious metals markets.
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The dollar index bulls have the solid overall near-term technical advantage, which had been a major underlying bearish factor for the precious metals recently.
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The dollar index bulls still have the solid overall near-term technical advantage, which is a major bearish underlying factor for the precious metals markets.
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The dollar index bulls have the solid overall near-term technical advantage, which has been a major underlying bearish factor for the precious metals recently.
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Hewison is a retired floor trader who has been a member of several major exchanges, including the International Monetary Market division of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Index and Options Market Chicago, New York Futures Exchange and London Financial Futures Exchange.
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