Market insights, product updates, tips and tricks
This week saw the quarterly rebalancing in the ASX200 and S&P500 indices. Optuma clients can download and open workbooks which includes the updated lists of the stocks within each sector along with chart examples.
An easy way to create a custom index of a basket of stocks, or portfolio, is to simply add them together in what is called a price-weighted index.
Clients with Australian or US fundamental data enabled on their accounts now have access to short interest data.
Last week, Mathew, Darren and Jairus attended the CMT Association Summit in Dubai, the first held outside of New York.
So far in this series, we’ve been looking at long term general market conditions with an overall bullish sentiment coming through.
Despite all that is going on in the world (wars, inflation, natural disasters, & Taylor Swift’s latest album), Stock Markets around the world have just continued on their merry way seemingly oblivious to everything.
The Presidential Cycle is a four-year cycle where the US Stock Market seems to make similar returns in each of the four years. I.e. We compare all the years of the election (2020, 2016, 2012…) and the results seem to align.
A few years ago I picked up an old copy of a book by Michael Gur called The Symmetry Wave Trading Method. Gur introduced the concept of using a series of swings based on the Average True Range of a chart, or the ATR.
New data is available for global prices in energy, metals, industrials, agriculture, and livestock.
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