http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com On Friday, March 6, 2009, after a very long and disheartening downtrend, the Daily patterns of the Dow Industrials, the S&P 500, and the S&P 100 displayed Candlestick signals which hinted of the possibility of upside reversals. In particular, the Dowâ€... http://www.articlealley.com/article_826755_19.html 16th March 2009 One of the outstanding attributes of Japanese Candlestick financial price reporting is its quite uncanny ability – most of the time, but not all the time – to accurately predict major changes in the direction of price trend. Some Candlestick format... http://www.articlealley.com/article_716833_19.html 11th December 2008 Everything old is new again. Whereas the “Japanese Candlestick” method of financial price display was invented centuries ago for use in the rice trade, it has recently found a new life and acceptance in the Western financial world. The reasons are p... http://www.articlealley.com/article_696688_19.html 27th November 2008 On November 7, 2007, the U.S. Dollar would have bought about 90 Canadian cents. This was a low point in the value of the U.S. Dollar, going back at least as far as 1977. Since last November, the greenback has enjoyed a steady rise in value as against ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_679256_63.html 30th October 2008 It was written in the Bars, and we know the culprits: Double Tops and Candlesticks. Over the past 14 weeks, the Euro has declined from a high of $1.6038 on July 18 to $1.3000 as of this writing on the evening of October 21, 2008. If this continues, qu... http://www.articlealley.com/article_672983_19.html 23rd October 2008 In the early days of the automobile, Ferdinand Porsche, himself an Austrian, served as a designer at the Daimler motorcar manufacturing branch there. He was a top-notch engineer, as well. In those days, car makers’ reputations relied significantly u... http://www.articlealley.com/article_669501_31.html 21st October 2008 The stock market and the major Indexes have taken a terrible beating over the past several days. Investors are at the point of throwing in the towel, which in my estimation would be a mistake now, because our Indicators and the Japanese Candlestick pri... http://www.articlealley.com/article_663301_63.html 13th October 2008 How quickly time does fly. It is almost a year since the stock market posted a significant long-term High. It was marked by a bearish Candlestick pattern, and has been followed all the way down by a series of similar bearish formations. The events ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_657422_19.html 06th October 2008 Finally, it gone done. After days of recriminations between each other and trying to divine the will of the voters at home, the Members of the House – as a body, not necessarily individually – agreed on a bailout package which the Senate had alre... http://www.articlealley.com/article_656457_19.html 06th October 2008 Candlesticks as Weapons of Defense A gracious hostess will decorate her dining table with finery, the best in the house. If she is fortunate enough to have good chinaware and sterling silver tableware, they will be set in place for her guests. Ther... http://www.articlealley.com/article_653693_19.html 01st October 2008 How to Survive and Win in this Bear Market: Follow the Candlestick Patterns The near-collapse of the entire financial system of the country unnerved most investors, and panicked some of them. Stock prices have been gyrating for days on end, pending a ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_652412_19.html 29th September 2008 Investors and traders have long been accustomed to the convenience of price charts of stocks, Indexes, and commodities. Today, in computer display if not yet generally in commercially-available printed charts, the Japanese Candlestick format of price pre... http://www.articlealley.com/article_644903_19.html 22nd September 2008 Gold sallied forth to advance $100 per ounce within the space of two days this week. That left the price bar of Gold, as displayed on a chart, sitting up there all by its lonesome at a closing price of $897 per ounce on Thursday, September 18. We have n... http://www.articlealley.com/article_643665_63.html 22nd September 2008 What a frenzy it was! The flashiest analysts in the flashiest Wall Street investment houses were loudly proclaiming the inevitability of Crude Oil prices at $180 and $200 per barrel. It certainly seemed like a sure thing, because the price of Crude had ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_639464_63.html 16th September 2008 I haven’t yet seen any comment on it, but there it is: a Head and Shoulders Top in the Dow Industrials Average. The Daily chart of the Dow shows a clearly identifiable Left Shoulder on July 23, 2000; a Head on August 11, and a Right Shoulder on Septemb... http://www.articlealley.com/article_635017_63.html 11th September 2008 Prices in the S&P 500 and in other major Indexes rose quickly on the day after the government announced that it would take over Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Both agencies had been abused for years by top management which, it is now alleged, manipulated th... http://www.articlealley.com/article_634970_63.html 11th September 2008 Traders always look for Good News, or anything that passes for Good News, to justify buying into the market. Certainly, early in September 2009 there had been nothing but a flood of bad news – the housing market continued to deteriorate; employment numb... http://www.articlealley.com/article_634905_63.html 11th September 2008 In November 2006, the price of Wheat began a sustained rise which finally came to a climax in March 2008 after a parabolic upsweep. Since then, prices declined to a low in May 2008 and have bounced up and down, now to a low which is equivalent to the pri... http://www.articlealley.com/article_633186_63.html 09th September 2008 It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. That may be understating the case. Political cartoonists continually have a field day with ever-changing subjects – persons seeking political office, the state of the economy, the debacle in the hou... http://www.articlealley.com/article_615838_63.html 02nd September 2008 We’ve had a bit of a respite in the high price of gasoline lately – down to “only” about $3.80 per gallon in my neighborhood as compared to about $4.25 a few weeks ago. Those kinds of numbers are far out of kilter with my own life experience. Wh... http://www.articlealley.com/article_615253_27.html 02nd September 2008 Observing the movement of stock prices in Japanese Candlestick format and in real-time depiction is somewhat akin to watching the printout of an electrocardiogram in motion. One is seeing at first hand the story of an unfolding investor psychology. The ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_604564_19.html 20th August 2008 “A picture is worth a thousand words.” How many times have we heard that? Since early times, humans have made pictures of things and events around them, both because visual representations give pleasure and because they create a record. The inventi... http://www.articlealley.com/article_603891_19.html 20th August 2008 The story of the decline in Merrill Lynch shares since early 2007 bears an uncanny resemblance to that of Bear Stearns. From a high of $98.68 on January 18, 2007, Merrill shares fell to a low of $22.00 on July 29, 2008. Could such a drastic decline have... http://www.articlealley.com/article_603042_19.html 18th August 2008 It was centuries ago that a rice trader in Japan devised a method of price recordation which told him what he wanted to know about the psychology of his fellow traders. It was almost like a living, breathing second-by-second tracking of their mood of the... http://www.articlealley.com/article_601686_19.html 17th August 2008 Much is written in the standard Japanese Candlestick textbooks about the standard candle patterns and their degree of predictive reliability. Hardly anything is said about variations of those patterns. The reader is left with a dearth of information abo... http://www.articlealley.com/article_600502_63.html 15th August 2008 We often hear of the “Austrian School” of economics, or of the “London School,” or of the “Chicago School.” I would use the word “school” in another sense – identical to a “gaggle,” a “flock,” a “pack,” or a “herd.” Ind... http://www.articlealley.com/article_599587_27.html 15th August 2008 Hundreds of years ago, a rice trader in Japan developed a system of recording the ups and downs of daily prices as rice was bought and sold in the wholesale market – a system which recorded in picture form the underlying psychological inputs which impel... http://www.articlealley.com/article_588477_63.html 24th July 2008 Fannie Mae is a “Government-Sponsored Enterprise,” but even so, it is a private corporation whose shares are widely owned, principally by financial institutions. In recent months, the value of those shares has plummeted from a high of $70.57 in A... http://www.articlealley.com/article_583940_19.html 22nd July 2008 Humans love certainty. The science of Mathematics is a study in absolutes. Investors in the stock market continuously search for the Holy Grail of mathematical certainty - the Sure Thing trade. Unfortunately, the Sure Thing does not exist in the stock ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_581727_19.html 21st July 2008 Mechanical technical analytical systems are a product of the human desire for certainty. They are attempts to reduce to physical certainty processes which are emotional, not physical. They try to jam the facts of one world, the world of emotion, which w... http://www.articlealley.com/article_577339_19.html 16th July 2008 Do you marvel, as I do, at the ingenuity and complexity which is involved in delivering a landing vehicle from Earth onto the surface of Mars after a trip of millions of miles and of many months’ duration? Do you now take for granted, as I do, our abil... http://www.articlealley.com/article_576949_19.html 15th July 2008 Investors and traders continually search for a sure-fire method of enhancing their efforts to make a profit in the stock market. There probably is no such thing as a “Holy Grail” in this respect, but it is possible to improve investment results by go... http://www.articlealley.com/article_560946_19.html 21st June 2008 Absolute certainty, loudly expressed, can sometimes lead to total embarrassment. “Big Brown’s” trainer was totally certain that his horse was a “sure thing” to win the Belmont Stakes and, thus, the Triple Crown. He was also very forthcoming in... http://www.articlealley.com/article_560079_19.html 20th June 2008