Sentences with phrase «momentum of a longer period»

This indicator attempts to show what is happening to the market for the current period compared to the momentum of a longer period.

Not exact matches

But a long period of U.S. economic growth could be interrupted in the coming years, despite a historically low unemployment rate of 4.1 percent, and record - shattering momentum on Wall Street that added trillions to the value of stocks in 2017.

During periods of decline it can be helpful to find long ideas among stocks which a) have low levels of debt, in case the market decline deepens, b) have a history of high returns on equity and investments c) have shown price momentum despite waning momentum in the overall markets.

After the third longest bull market advance on record, fresh deterioration in key trend - following components within our measures of market internals (see Support Drops Away) recently joined this extended, overvalued, overbought, overbullish peak, even as the S&P 500 hovers at the top of its monthly Bollinger bands (two standard deviations above the 20 - period average) and cyclical momentum rolls over from a 9 - year high.

«This mechanism means that little thunderstorms — fast, abundant, but not very strong thunderstorms — over a long period of time can actually accumulate so much angular momentum right on the pole, that you get a permanent, wildly strong cyclone.»

If you're concerned about losing steam, move through an interval plan that consists of five minutes of jumping, alternating with one - minute rest periods; it will take a few minutes longer, but you'll keep up your momentum and enthusiasm the whole way through.

In the absence of foresight, a diversified strategy that combines different information sources (fundamentals, value, risk appetite and technicals), trading strategies (momentum and contrarian) and holding periods (daily, weekly and monthly) far outperforms narrower approaches over the longer term.

In this way, momentum might look good on paper but most investors should think twice, or thrice, before using it because periods of significant under - performance are likely, even though the long - term numbers have been good.

Academic research shows that over the long run, momentum for stocks works well with a look back period of 3 to 12 months.

There may be evidence of price reversals in long periods (3 to 5 years) and there is the contradictory evidence of price momentum — losing stocks are more likely to keep losing and winning stocks to keep winning — if you consider shorter periods (six months to a year).

There's a million ways of constructing a sector rotation based on momentum timing periods and weighting, some drastically out perform others in backtests, but ultimately they are likely to arrive near the same place in the long term.

Though the momentum anomaly (weak as it has been recently) usually favors portfolios with stronger price momentum, the relationship breaks down over longer periods of time, and more severe moves, where mean - reversion tends to take over.

Following a period of uncertainty and frustration in Indigenous tobacco control, there's hope that recent myth - busting research and signs of some long - awaited Federal Government commitment will inject new momentum into efforts to further reduce smoking among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.