{"id":8589,"date":"2010-03-12T08:55:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T13:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=8589"},"modified":"2016-09-20T06:39:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T10:39:42","slug":"where-is-market-headed-two-indicators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/12\/where-is-market-headed-two-indicators\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Market Headed? Two Indicators&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the tools that we can use to determine direction and strength of the market as well as the potential for the areas that will show a change in trend is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\">Bloomberg <\/a>Trender and Fear\/Greed indicator.<\/p>\n<p>We have charted both indicators and added a medium term trend as well. Not that we are still in a trend higher for the S&amp;P 500 until it breaks below 1122.55 for the short-term indicator and 1110.48 for the mid-term. Of course <!--more-->these will change over time as markets move higher, but if we stay within this range, those are the points to look at to <em>help <\/em>with decisions on your portfolio allocations.<\/p>\n<p>The Fear\/Greed indicator also confirmed the uptrend in late February as shown on the S&amp;P 500 chart and respective charts below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/FG-Trender-20100311.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8592 aligncenter\" title=\"FG Trender 20100311\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/FG-Trender-20100311-610x344-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"344\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Below is the same for the Russell 2000 index&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/RTY-Trender-20100311.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8591\" title=\"RTY Trender 20100311\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/RTY-Trender-20100311-610x344-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"344\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And the Hang Seng Index &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/HSI-Trender-20100311.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8590\" title=\"HSI Trender 20100311\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/HSI-Trender-20100311-610x344-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"344\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the tools that we can use to determine direction and strength of the market as well as the potential for the areas that will show a change in trend is the Bloomberg Trender and Fear\/Greed indicator. We have charted both indicators and added a medium term trend as well. Not that we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[224,12,42,253],"tags":[483,497],"class_list":["post-8589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-long-ideas","category-markets","category-stocks","category-strategy","tag-markets","tag-strategy","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}