Stocks we review

Within this website we will review and perhaps discuss, in greater detail, the technical merits of different securities we find that are making technically interesting adjustments in price and volume as they relate to trendlines and other indicators

We will not review every stock or ETF every day in this site. We may only have a few at a time or many depending on market conditions.

WIthin this site we will review the Dow 30, Nasdaq 100, and S&P 500 as well as ETF's and whatever else happens to move us to consider. The reason we will look at those above is these are the larger capitalization companies in the U.S. These are not thinly traded stocks and there is always a market for them. Price discovery is easier within these stocks and most importantly institutions carry them in their portfolio's. Having institutional sponsorship in a stock makes it easier to see when trends develop as they will buy into a stock multiple times usually over a period of weeks, months, or years. This helps to establish and solidify trends.

Since most people know what a stock is I will not go further into detail about them in general. For those of you that are unfamiliar with ETF's read a little further and we will discuss some of the general details of what an ETF is and why it may be suitable for your investment or trading purposes.

ETF's or Electronically Traded Funds are baskets of securities that have been packaged that represent the stocks, commodoties, bonds or other investment instruments that comprise an index or group of securities. There are ETF's that represent the various indexes and industry sectors. Foreign countries and their stocks and indexes are also represented in ETF's.

These baskets of financial instruments resemble a mutual fund. They are not actively managed and therefore help keep costs lower that way. An ETF unlike a mutual fund can be sold during the course of the trading day at any point without waiting for the end of the trading day to settle. In volatile markets this can help or hurt you but again you have control over the timing of the sale.

An ETF can be sold short like a stock and it can be purchased on margin. ETF's generally have lower costs than mutual funds and have no sales charges attached to them except a normal broker commission for the transaction.

They are a great way to diversify and enjoy the benefits of ownership such as price appreciation and dividend capture.