Chapter 8 Market Trend Calculations

The two primary forms of analysis in the stock market are fundamental and technical. The fundamentals refer to financial statement trends, including profitability, capitalization and cash flow. Technical analysis, in following chapters, refers to all matters concerning price, volume, momentum, and moving averages. This chapter explains some of the less direct market indicators stock investors and traders use.

These relate to price trends in the overall market, not only for price and its immediate trends, but also for the weighting of indexes, new high and new low statistics, advances and declines, short interest, volatility, mutual fund cash to asset ratio, and the large block ratio.

Unlike fundamental analysis ...

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