Articles for: Bollinger

Most of us of course like trending markets. They have long moves – up or down – and are easier to identify and invest into and we generally sleep better at night. But we can’t have our way all the time and sometimes markets have insufficient buying or selling force to move them strongly in one direction.

We have seen a soft market this week in global indices and the key question when we see such easing is: will this be an easing or the beginning of the next slide down?

In my previous article A Standard Rally from Trading Tutors Newsletter Issue #303, we discussed the current rally in terms of the largest previous rally during this bear market. In this article we are going to look at the lows made over the past 12 months in comparison to significant lows in history.

The current up move that is occurring across many of the major equity indices around the world has many including myself asking, at least rhetorically, how far can it go? A long way if it is the beginning of a new bull market! However, let’s assume for this discussion that we expect some more bumps along the way before a new bull market takes hold.