Category: Insights

Dow Theory Update for Jan 28: Precious metals meltdown unabated

posted on: January 28, 2013

Stocks hold its ground. Today is going to be a short post. Stocks closed mixed. The SPY and Industrials closed slightly down. The Transports slightly up. The primary and secondary trend remains bullish. Volume was lower tan last Friday’s. Since the SPY closed down, this is a bullish sign. Gold and silver (GLD and SLV) […]

Dow Theory Special Issue: Assessing the primary bear market signal for gold and silver miners ETFs

posted on: January 26, 2013

Should we heed the Dow Theory when applied to ETFs? As you could read in this post, the Dow Theory has recently signaled a primary bear market for GDX and SIL (the gold and silver miners ETFs). Here you have a chart depicting recent price action. The pink lines are the secondary reaction lows that […]

Dow Theory Update for Jan 25: Stocks continue making higher highs

posted on: January 25, 2013

Precious metal’s meltdown continues unabated. In Barry Ritholz blog, we can find an interesting post concerning the average duration of bull markets. You can find this interesting post here: Even though the way the duration of such bull markets has not been defined according to the Dow Theory (the average duration stands at ca. […]

Dow Theory Update for Jan 24: Primary bear market signaled for Gold and Silver ETFs (GDX and SIL)

posted on: January 24, 2013

Stocks holding their own. Let’s begin our analysis of the markets under the prism of the Dow Theory. The SPY, Industrials and Transports closed up, thereby making a new confirmed high, which is bullish. Volume was higher than yesterday’s and since, overall (and in spite of NASDAQ action), the major indices closed up. This […]

Dow Theory Update for Jan 23: Stocks up again

posted on: January 23, 2013

Precious metals mixed. Let’s get started with our Dow Theory commentary for today in this blog. The SPY, Industrials and Transports closed, once again, up. It goes without saying that the primary and secondary trend remains bullish. Volume was lower than yesterday’s. Since it was an up day in has a bearish connotation. For the […]

Dow Theory Update for Jan 22: Another bullish day

posted on: January 22, 2013

Precious metals and stocks close up. Recently, Richard Russell, author of the famed “Dow Theory Letters,” with almost 60 years of experience on his back stated: “Despite a steady parade of fear stories and scary newspaper headlines, the markets plow steadily and fearlessly ahead. I can’t explain it, nor do I want to, but ultimately, […]

Dow Theory special issue: How often does the Dow Theory outperform buy and hold?

posted on: January 18, 2013

Evaluating performance on a year-end basis. It is no secret that I am deeply influenced by Schannep’s Dow Theory flavor. To learn more about Schannep’s flavor, I suggest you go here, or if you plan to buy his excellent book here. For reasons that go beyond my comprehension (maybe because he’s the best-performing Dow Theorist) […]

Dow Theory Update for Jan 18: No time for excuses. Stocks market in primary bull market even under “classical” Dow Theory

posted on: January 18, 2013

The Rhea version of the Dow Theory flashes primary bull market signal. There are days when I keep this daily commentary short. No reason to babble when the market has nothing relevant to say. Today is not one of such days. Dow Theory relevant events are piling up. As you know I announced in this […]

How long do bull and bear markets last?

posted on: January 17, 2013

What is the expected performance of bull markets? Here is an interesting article posted on Zero Hedge entitled “Time dependency of bull markets”. While the definition of bull or bear market does not necessarily fit with the primary and bear markets as defined by the Dow Theory, it gives interesting insights as to what expect […]

Dow Theory Update for Jan 17: SPY and Industrials bettered their Sep 14, 2012 closing highs

posted on: January 17, 2013

Gold finally confirms silver upward movement. Well, let’s see what the Dow Theory has in store for us today. Today is a rich day in technically significant events. Are the markets sensing liquidity, an improvement in economic conditions or this is merely the last blow off before the onset of a secondary reaction? We really […]

Dow Theory Update for Jan 16: Indecisive day for stocks

posted on: January 16, 2013

Gold and silver up Let’s get started with our Dow Theory commentary for today. The SPY and the Industrials closed slightly down. The Transports closed up. The primary and secondary trend remain bullish. Today’s volume was lower than yesterday’s. Given that it was a down day, it has a bullish implication, as declining prices were […]

Dow Theory Update for Jan 15: Mildly bullish day

posted on: January 15, 2013

Gold refuses to confirm silver. Let’s get started with today’s post in this Dow Theory blog. The SPY, the Industrials and the Transports closed up. The Industrials and the Transports have jointly bettered yesterday’s highs which, since yesterday’s action also entailed new confirmed highs, is bullish. The primary trend and secondary trend for stocks remains […]