Donnerstag, 27. Dezember 2007

DAX Monthly return

Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2007

MACD To find market reversals

You can use MACD indicator with trends line to fine the major market reversal points.

Be aware of stock advisers(MARKUS FRICK)

Always make your own analysis and decide independently by yourself.



Listen what Andre Kostolany is saying about the stock advisers from here.

Freitag, 21. Dezember 2007

DAX: Current New Highs and New Lows Index

Blue points shows 52w highs of the DAX index.
Year to Date 52 week DAX new highs and new lows index.
Long term 52 week DAX new highs and new lows index.

Year to date DAX 20 Day new highs and new lows index.Long term DAX 20 Day new highs and new lows index.

If you do not know how to interpret this indicator, you can go to marketscreen.com to learn more about the interpretation of this indicator.

Downloading single stock data of an index

If you are investing foreign markets you need to calculate some indicators by yourself. For example New highs and new lows indicator requires additional effort to estimate for the non-US markets e.g. Turkey, germany etc..

There are many websites for the US markets which provides also such kind of indicator graphs.
But for other cases we need to calculate this by ourselfts. The below excel macro shows you how you can download the 30 DAX stock data to make new highs new lows analysis of the DAX index.

Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2007

Order Types

Limit order: Buy order will be filled maximum at the limit value. Sell orders will be filled minimum at the limit value. e.g. a stock is currently trading at 47,8€. You do not want to pay more than 47,6€. Your order will only be filled at 47,6€ or for a better price (less than 47,6€).

Stop-Market order: If the price of a security reaches or exceeds the value of the stop-market price the order will be an unlimited market order.

Stop-Limit order: Like stop market order but the order will be limit order instead of the market order.

Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2007

Analyzing the Markets

John Murphy has an excellent work on intermarket analysis. You can analyse the market direction by analysing the interrelations between the markets.

Joseph Ellis has an excellent book about the economic analysis "Ahead of the curve".

[1] Joseph Ellis, Aheadofthecurve
[2] John Murphy, intermarket analysis