The strong move higher on increased volume meant that Tuesday was a Follow Through Day (FTD). FTDs are a concept that was created by William O’Neil, founder of Investors’ Business Daily.
I have written about them extensively on the blog. In June for the 1st time I showed that
FTD’s have a better chance of success when they are also accompanied by strong breadth. Tonight I also examined the short-term implications to FTDs with strong breadth vs. FTDs without. This first study below looks at performance following FTDs that came along with an Up Issue % reading that was among the top 5% of all readings over the previous year.
As you can see there appears to be an tendency for the market to continue higher after these strong-breadth FTDs. Now let’s examine performance after FTDs on days that did not show exceptional breadth strength.
Here there appears to be no edge or short-term upside inclination whatsoever. With Tuesday’s FTD coming on breadth that put it in the top 2% of all days for the last year the short-term outlook appears better.
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However, FTD after big declines as the one we just had has less than 50% probability of success. http://quantifiableedges.blogspot.com/2008/02/follow-through-days-better-after-small.html
Market action in the days after a FTD has been a decent predictor of whether that FTD is likely to succeed.
FTD’s after day 10 have had a higher success rate over the last 37 years than FTD’s that occurred between days 4-10.
Rob-
Did you look at this with one of your basic filters, the above/below 200 day SMA divider? If so, any variances to the core theme?
Found this little tidbit on Bob English's Precision Report 8/26...
"Our CANSLIM friends have noted that yesterday was the second distribution day after the August 23 follow through day (FTD), which signals an 80% chance of failure for the fledgling rally."
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