Finance

Hello Fellow ChartWatchers! Early last year, we added Dr. Alexander Elder's Impulse System to our SharpCharts charting package and it has proven to be quite popular. This is the system that colors the price bars red, green or blue depending on two criteria that Elder feels are very important: 1.) Is the 13-day exponential moving...

Hello Fellow ChartWatchers! Happy 2012! During his ChartCon 2011 presentation on Intermarket Analysis, John Murphy presented a great chart showing the state of Sam Stovall's Sector Rotation model as of July 2011. Let's take an interactive look at how things have changed since that time. First off, a quick review: Stovall's model says that the...

Hello Fellow ChartWatchers! This past August, something special happened in Seattle. Over 350 charting enthusiasts gathered for the first ever ChartCon conference. They listened as John Murphy, Arthur Hill and myself discussed technical analysis in depth, demonstrated their own analysis techniques and explained how to use the core features of StockCharts.com. (They also had a...

Hello Fellow ChartWatchers! First off I wanted to make sure you knew that our Holiday Special is now underway! Long time members will tell you that if you are a StockCharts fan, the best time to join or renew is during our Holiday Sale Special. If you renew right now for 12 months, we'll give...

Hello Fellow ChartWatchers! We have a jammed-packed edition of ChartWatchers for you this week. With the holiday season approaching fast (too fast if you ask me!) we're announcing several great Store specials that I urge you to look into to. Click here for more details (or just skip down to the "Site News" section of...

I am extremely happy to announce that StockCharts.com is now working with the good folks at Security Research Company (S.R.C.) to bring you high-quality historical financial charts based on their huge database of financial information. In case you are not familiar with SRC's work, they've been publishing their amazing charts since they started back in...

Hello Fellow ChartWatchers! "Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity." - Robert Mogan Perspective. Do you have it? Have you lost it? How do you gain it back? One of the best ways to gain perspective on the stock market is to use long-term market indicators. One of the best long-term market...

Hello Fellow ChartWatchers! Simpler is usually better and that is definitely true when you are looking for a chart to put the month of September into perspective. Voila! Members can click the chart to see a live version. The Dow finished September over 6% lower than the previous month. That's the 5th straight month $INDU...

Hello Fellow ChartWatchers! With headlines like "Rally in Trouble?", "Start of Correction?" and "VIX Stalls" you'd think that our technical analysts were trying to tell you something... Regardless of what John, Arthur, Carl and the rest of the gang is hinting at, things could not be more bullish here at StockCharts with regards to a...

Hello Fellow ChartWatchers! Last month, we announced the opening of a new User-to-User help website called "s.c.a.n." - the StockCharts Answer Network. Hopefully, you've had a chance to check it out - if not, I strongly encourage you to do so. s.c.a.n. has been a huge success so far. Almost 150 different questions have been...

Hello Fellow ChartWatchers! Last week, we hosted over 300 enthusiastic StockCharts.com members here in Seattle for ChartCon 2011. John, Arthur and myself cannot say enough about the great people we met. Thanks again to everyone that participated. Here's a link to more reviews and photos of the event. One of the key goals of ChartCon...

Hello Fellow ChartWatchers! ChartStyles are basically "templates" of charts. They contain everything about the chart except the ticker symbol. Members of our Basic and Extra services can save multiple ChartStyles into their accounts for quick access later. Consider the following example: Let's say that you have been reading the newspaper and a story on Amazon...