A goldmine of information can be found by looking at the stock holdings of top growth funds. This short tutorial will show you how to find this information in MarketSmith.
I’ve included a short list of several highly regarded growth funds that you can review for their holdings. I’ll also cover a few additional ways to locate fund holdings if you are not a MarketSmith subscriber.
Continue readingThe concept of tightening price action, lower highs and higher lows, along with volume declining, will often lead to a breakout that follows in the direction of the prior trend.
William Jiler in 1962 referred to this as a coil. Mark Minervini, in his book Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard, describes similar price action which he refers to as volatility contraction pattern (VCP). It is also known as a symmetrical triangle.
In this post I’ll show historical examples as well as recent breakouts and current setups. My focus here is on daily and weekly charts. With that said, take some time and look at various intraday charts, the same concepts apply.
Continue readingThe track price in MarketSmith can be used to view a stock’s price in relation to various moving averages. The downside is that the information is not displayed directly on the chart, you must right click for each symbol to view the stats.
I’ve written thinkscript that will display the distance above or below either the 21-day exponential moving average or the 10-week simple moving average. If you are viewing a daily chart you’ll see the former, when on a weekly chart, the latter.
I’ve also added information that indicates the price for a specific percentage below the moving average. The percent below can be configured using the Inputs and Options dialog in thinkorswim.
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