As mentioned in yesterday's stock commentary section of our newsletter, it is simply too easy to dig yourself into a whole when trying to fight
the dominant broad market trend.
First, it is crucial to realize that trading in the same direction as
the dominant broad market trend is the most important element of our swing trading system because approximately 80 % of all stocks move in the same direction as the major indices.
Since approximately 80 % of stocks and ETFs move in the same direction as
the dominant broad market trend, one of the first and most important aspects of our stock trading strategy is to always trade on the same side of the overall stock market trend.
Not exact matches
The resulting portfolio has a 30 % exposure to
broad U.S. equities
markets, including allocations of 10 % each to ETFs linked to
dominant U.S. indices: the NASDAQ 100, the Dow Jones industrial average, and the MSCI USA high - quality index.
A look at economic developments and stock
market activity around the world Wednesday: ------ WASHINGTON — Financial firms that play a
dominant role in the energy futures
market brought their case against
broad limits on speculative trading to...
It always seemed I was cutting my profits short in a bull
market, while frequently being too slow to reverse to the short side of the
market when the
dominant trend of the
broad market reversed.
They also use
broad investment themes (they like US blue chips, large cap financials and natural gas producers), are short both the Russell 2000 (which is up 14.2 % through 9/28) and individual small cap stocks, and declare that «the
dominant theories about how
markets behave and the sources of investment success are untrue.»
The
broad downtrend has allowed bitcoin to reassert itself as the
dominant market player, now controlling 41 % of the
market.
Still, it was the lesser - known cryptocurrencies that performed best amid the
broad - based gloom and doom, suggesting that after a flurry of retail trading to end 2017, enthusiasts are perhaps once again the
dominant market force.
«It is only logical to leverage that
broad identity across all
markets, including New York, where the Hanna name will be the
dominant market leader.