PAGING MR. BACHNUT…Per yr request yest.
All we are doing with the internals, is taking SPY, and lifting the kimono, just for a peek
We glance at DOLLAR very important for many reasons, let’s just remember a big one: the entire rally last 2 yrs was fueled by a very depressed dollar, so we want to see if dollar is trending down (supporting a spy rally) or trending up (supporting the bear), not as impt minute by minute, but we like to obsess….. On my internals charts I use either UUP in red (up red UUP means red bear spy), or UDN in green (up green UDN means bull spy).
We focus on $NYADV advancing stocks and $NYDEC declining stocks, as they are a pure view of how many stocks may be supporting the rally/decline. We watch for key signals, like a negative divergence/non-confirmation at a SPY high.
EG: If advancing issues are, say 2200, and spy makes higher high while advancing issues wane to 1900, that tells us that 300 stocks just dropped out of the nyadv data, and went either unchanged or negative…. just helps us see a bit of weakness developing, if stocks start dropping out of the bull party….(also, $NAADV/$NADEC tells us similar about NASDAQ)
We glance at $TICK, the most fickle of the internals, as it can get very seismic. I “filter out the noise” quite a bit, by showing it on 5 min, with an “area” view (the chunks of red and green drawn by stockcharts.com). This means if tick hit +1300 but CLOSED at +700, I will only see the +700 register on the 5 min…. just makes it a bit less hyperactive, and helps us see valuable trendlines developing sometimes.
We check $VIX for key levels and slope (generally vix up = spy down, and inverse). There is a big-brain VIX guy on this board, maybe cougar (?), watch him 4 VIX clues, not much chatter but killer charts
Will be trying to blab less and let the pure internals speak more. So on my chart updates, my thick green lines = bull, and thick red lines=bear…. SERIOUSLY, HARD CORE SIMPLE
Perhaps u noticed the weakness in spy after big fancy gap open today. Let’s just lift the kimono then
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=SPY&p= ... =244976875