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A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW OF POPULAR TECHNICAL INDICATORS V. WILDER’S RSI, PART 1

Historically, RSI has indicated enormous returns.
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Chart of the Day 2012/02/26: U.S. Gasoline Consumption

Using the EIA’s Weekly Petroleum Status Report, I prepared a seasonally-adjusted chart of U.S. gasoline consumption. Note: This chart includes exports in consumption. U.S. gasoline exports have tripled in the past two years but still amount to less than 10% of consumption. As you can see, after seasonal adjustment, there has been a strong downtrend. [...]
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What Day Traders Really Do

The latest in the “What I Really Do” meme:
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February 2012 USDA ERS Oil Crops Outlook

Prices for both soybean meal and soybean oil have been up on lower volume.
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A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW OF POPULAR TECHNICAL INDICATORS PART IV: MACD, PART 1

...geometric average five-day gains of 0.382% following positive crossovers and (0.210%) following negative crossovers.
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Forecasting with Internet Search Data – Liberty Street Economics

A January 4 article from the New York Fed’s blog, Liberty Street Economics, suggests that Internet search statistics can be used as coincident indicators, demonstrating correlations between keyword search frequency and time-lagged economics data releases. The authors also suggest that Internet search statistics may be useful leading indicators for the movements of financial markets in [...]
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Chart of the Day 2012/02/10: October Soybean Meal Futures

October soybean meal futures have broken through resistance at around 323, which recently has been acting as support. They may rise further but are displaying a rising wedge pattern, which historically has often has led to steep declines. Caution is warranted in the near future, especially if the price breaks support. Incidentally, a feed expert [...]
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Stocks & Commodities Magazine Available Free Online

While researching the Aroon indicator earlier today, I noticed that Stocks & Commodities magazine, considered one of the leading authorities on technical analysis, is available for free on their web site. You won’t be able to download the PDF edition without a subscription, but the archives area contains web versions of every volume since 1996.
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A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW OF POPULAR TECHNICAL INDICATORS PART III. AROON, PART 1

The Aroon indicator is a conceptually simple technical indicator. Developed in 1995, it is newer than many of the more popular technical indicators. But for some reason, not all charting web sites offer the Aroon indicator. Yahoo! Finance doesn’t offer it. Neither does CME Group. Two charting web sites that do are Stockcharts and Barchart. [...]
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