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eResearch Stock Market Timing – Market Breadth Charts
Market Breadth Charts
Using Short Term Market Breadth To Time The Market
One way to get a better understanding of when a market is about to change direction, is to track how
many stocks within a group are performing well, vs. how many are performing poorly.
This type of analysis is part of a larger group of analysis commonly referred to as Market Breadth.
Within a given timeframe, we can look for imbalances in the market, or when too many stocks are
performing well, vs. too many stocks are performing poorly.
Common techniques for using this type of analysis include locating overbought/oversold levels and
finding positive or negative divergences between them and the underlying group’s composite index.
This type of group or crowd analysis can seem counter intuitive for many, as it is right when everyone
has come to the same decision that the market will actually turn in the exact opposite direction.
Anytime we see 60% or more of the stocks in our database trading above their 10-day moving average,
we should consider the market overbought, and we should expect a short term pullback.
And anytime we see that less than 40% of the stocks in our database are trading above their 10 day
moving average, we should consider the market oversold short-term, and expect a reversal higher.
As you will see below, we may have to adjust the 40% / 60% rule, based on the sector we are analyzing.
For Short Term Analysis, we might look to see how many stocks are trading above or below the Right
Side Channel. Or for people who do not have access to those charts, we might look at the percentage of
stocks trading above or below their 10-day moving average.
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