A common problem in data analysis is choosing what data to use when analyzing. You would think that since the NYSE has just one exchange, the high, low, close data for each stock would be the same no matter who is the vendor of the data. Unfortunately this isn't always the case and in particular when it comes to stocks that issue dividends, this is very much not the case.

Traditional technical analysis addresses the concepts of support and resistance as lines and points on a chart. This is very misleading and problematic. The stock market is not nearly that well behaved.

A secondary problem is that the only measure of one support or resistance line being better than another is conditioned on the idea of how many times the line is "tested". This also is problematic and not very useful.

The CAN SLIM approach seeks companies with a proven record of quarterly and annual earnings and sales growth showing strong relative price strength and support from leading institutions. O’Neil does not mind paying rich premiums for stocks with good prospects. He feels that most strategies seeking stocks with low price-earnings are flawed because they ignore the price trend determining the price-earnings ratio, as well as the quality of the underlying earnings within the ratio. O’Neil believes that stocks generally sell for what they are worth and most stocks with low price-earnings ratios are probably priced correctly by the market. O’Neil also asserts that it is important to follow the market closely and try to lighten up your stock exposure when going into a bear market.

Markets are cyclical in nature and, to some degree, they follow the same sort of buy/sell patterns across the four business maekt cycles. Here is view of those business cycles and how the various sectors perform during those cycles. Here is a graphical view of those cycles.

Dipster refers to those traders who ride momentum. Once a short term trend develops, dipsters become incessant buyers who, on every dip in the market, load back up and put there stops under the last swing point expecting the trend to continue.

There are dipsters operating on different time frames - intraday, a few days, and a few weeks. The relative size and influence they excert on the market can be argued but their presence is not.

TA Today tracks well over 6000 listed issues, primarily listed on U.S. exchanges but also from exchanges around the world. You have the ability to add your favorite symbols in and have us automatically pick them up, add them to our database and perform neoclassical analysis on them.

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In his book, Trend Trading Set-Ups (published by John Wiley & Sons), L.A. includes quite a bit of discussion on mean-time-to-failure (MTTF), an engineering concept, that has application to trends. MTTF and how it can be used as a useful guide in measure the probability of trend continuance.

In his ground breaking book, Trend Qualification and Trading, L.A. Little forever put his stamp on technical analysis moving the field forth into the the neoclassical world. Trend qualification has, at its core, the idea that not all trends are created equally. Some are simply better than others.

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In his book, Trend Qualification and Trading, L.A. Little introduces the world to a redefinition of trend. He shows you how you can distinguish between trends classifying some as suspect and others as confirmed. Essentially, L.A. has place a value on trends saying that some are better than others. It stands to reason that if some trends are more durable than other then it would be worth your while to follow those trends that are better than those that are not.

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When a swing point is surpassed, there almost always is a retest of that swing point somewhere down the line. L.A. points this out and provides the data to support it in his book Trend Trading Set-Ups. He then goes on to describe how the test takes place in terms of price, time and volume and how you can use this knowledge to improve your odds of trading success.

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