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The “Buffett Indicator” is flashing red. In 2001, Warren Buffett came up with what he called in Fortune Magazine “probably the best single measure of where [stock] valuations stand at any ...
(The intraday high may not be the same as the opening price; for instance, in the 2010 flash crash, the market reached an intraday high, higher than the opening price.) [48] This is distinguished from an intraday point drop or gain, which is the difference between the opening price and the intraday low or high.
Clues about how this election cliffhanger will end may be hiding in an unlikely place: Your 401(k).
The result is that a trader who believed the market would rally could simply acquire Dow Futures and make a huge amount of profit as a result of the leverage factor; if the market were to rise to 14,000, for instance, from the current 10,000, each Dow Futures contract would gain $20,000 in value (4,000 point rise x 5 leverage factor = $20,000). [5]
The largest one-day percentage gain in the index happened in the depths of the 1930s bear market on March 15, 1933, when the Dow gained 15.34% to close at 62.10. However, as a whole throughout the Great Depression, the Dow posted some of its worst performances, for a negative return during most of the 1930s for new and old stock market investors.
A key market indicator hasn’t been this high since the Great Recession. Nicole Goodkind, CNN. ... For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at CNN.com. Show comments. Advertisement.
This ranges from -1 when the close is the low of the day, to +1 when it's the high. For instance if the close is 3/4 the way up the range then CLV is +0.5.
The Smart money index (SMI) and the Smart Money Flow Index (SMFI) are both technical analysis indicators demonstrating investors' sentiment. While the SMI was invented and popularized by money manager Don Hays, the SMFI is based on Hays' SMI but uses a slightly different and proprietary formula to measure the investment behavior of institutional investors.