This institute provides a leading index on US economy based on some macro measurement. This article describes how to use the leading weekly index to anticipate US economy movement.
Trading volatility
Volatility futures are typically in contango (S&P bull market) with some backwardation periods (S&P bear market). There is a reason to trade long volatility on market peaks when (a) there is no QE in US and (b) when the contango is relatively flat, and inverse volatility on market corrections otherwize. Flat volatility contango is also …
Following guru trends
www.gurufocus.com offers a number of cool free features for those not willing to part with 400USD per year: 1. Guru trends industry 2. Guru scoreboard with easy access to individual portfolios by name. Unfortunately all data is delayed. 3. Concensus picks of many gurus 4. Insider trading is really updated, including trends 5. Rebalanced A, …
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National economies
This page holds several international indicators. Very good to see gold reserves, debt to gdp, growth rate etc. This page holds similar data.
Market health simple indicators
This page includes simple market health indicators for US, India, Japan, REIT, MLP. Should be checked once per month when rebalancing momentum/sector rotation/equity-bonds allocations. For example, the price-to-book indicator is very interesting – since it is a proxy for the liquidation stock price. Investor fears are abundant, should be acknowledged but not overused.
Trend analysis
Charting and trend analysis is very similar to astrology. There are woo many signals to decide anything. This blog offers a reasonable ~daily market analysis that supplements our fundamental understandings and offers new insight. The charts often give wrong signals, so be careful when charting.
Integrated libraries
We are starting to integrate tools into the backend. table editor pecl trader extension pchart
Market sector rebalancing
Drag the “200 days” indicator for history. Can create custom charts within the tool Investment channels Per channel S&P sector charts Commodity Bonds Another representation Per sector Per country Need to add sample portfolios… Investment timing S&P Put any other symbol for chart. Yet, Another representation, yet to do it right Cap size RRG supported …
Recession alert
There is actually a service for this. Unfortunately it is paid and costly subscription.Will try to build some of the tools on my own. In the meanwhile we get superindex via weekly in the news. Bulls vs bears polls highly accurate 5 years week over week Technical analysis S&P Mcclellan ocsilators via Dow S&P Nasdaq …