Market Indicators         

Overall Market Indicators

Overall Market Indicators are typically derived from calculations related to major indices such as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), NASDAQ, and the S&P 500 which include a very large basket of stocks.

Indicators of Market Health

• McClellan Oscillator
• McClellan Summation Index
• Investor's Intelligence Figures
• Advance-Decline Line
• Advance/Decline Ratio
• New Highs and Lows

Long-term measures of market health:

• New Highs and Lows
• Advance-Decline Line

Short Term Indicators of Overbought or Oversold Situations

• McClellan Oscillator
• Arms Index

Sentiment indicators help define investor expectations. Market indicators that help gauge investor sentiment include the put/call ratio, the VIX, odd lot sales, and ratio of bullish versus bearish investment advisors. These indicators help define what investors are doing. Contrarian investors will use this information to go in the opposite direction of the crowd, which has proven to be a successful strategy at market tops and market bottoms. The majority of investors are very bullish at market tops and very bearish at market bottoms.

Momentum indicators show overall market price information in various ways using the Advance-Decline Line, volume of increasing price issues compared to volume of decreasing price issues, number of stocks making new highs versus new lows, the Dow, MACD, etc.

Indicators help us to understand the health of the market and the state of the market. One indicator does not generally tell the whole story, so it helps to look at a number of indicators and meld them to form our opinion of the market.

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