I also have an old study that looks at the other side of the coin. What if TICK goes the 1st 30 minutes and trades BELOW 0 the whole time? This NEARLY triggered this morning. The TICK managed to move up through 0 in the 30th minute. But let's take a look at it anyway.
In the past I have shown this to suggest bearish implications. Here is an updated look at those statistics:
Everything here still suggests bearish implications. An average loss of an "additional" 0.75% between 10ma and 4pm is quite large. But let's take a look at the equity curve to see how the edge has played out over time.
While recent instances have not been as powerful as some we saw in the past, the downside still appears to be intact. It may be waning, but it still appears prevalent enough to raise a red flag.
So did we narrowly miss a bearish setup, setting the stage for an intraday rebound? Or was this one close enough that the bears are likely to remain in control the rest of the day? We'll find out in a few hours...
2 comments:
Rob-
What are you using to watch the NYSE Tick index? Are you looking at 1/2 hour closes only? Because I show that on 4/9 the TICK ranged between +553 and -668 for the first half hour. I would certainly agree that anytime the TICK stays above or below the zero line for a 1/2 hour it would be a VERY bullish or bearish indication, but I'm pretty sure I've never seen that happen, at least in the last year or so that I've had a permanent TICK chart running all day on my workstation.
It would be interesting to see if there were any correlations between certain events and the movement of the ticker. For example, Bernanke gives a speech and it moves; or something pops up from Eurozone. Probably that type of data is not available, though some kind of historical pattern of correlations would be utterly facinating (and probably very profitable as traders could be lining up to buy it!)
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