Friday, April 23, 2010

Trading the SPX

Below is the SPX hourly trend model for the past two weeks.  The beauty of this model is that it has no directional bias, it is simply a trend following, rule based, purely mechanical, objective, algorithm-based trend line. 

SPX 60 minute trend model


I'm not advocating short-term trading here, just providing an illustrative model of trend following on a shorter-term time frame. 

 The monthly chart isn't all that different:

SPX monthly trend  model


This weekend I hope to provide a fresh overview of these models in my Weekend Update to the email list.  



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