What do primary,secondary and tertiary trends in technical analysis mean ? Why do we use raw closing prices ?
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Primary,secondary and tertiary trends in technical analysis are the long term, middle long and short term trend. \nThis is not really an answer as long, middle and short term are rather subjective terms, depending on the commodity or stock. \n\nIn technical analysis one uses not only prices (Open, High, Low and Close) but also Volume to construct indicators.
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Generally, the interest rate elasticity and the duration are used.  The first is the change in value based on the change in rates.  The second is the maturity of a zero with the same elasticity as the given rate/value.\n\nThere's a bunch of math behind it and you can look at the paper below.
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If you're worried about daily/weekly price swings, you are in too risky of a market.  Stocks are more for long term investing.  Short term swings are unpredictable.  Some win, more lose.
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The number of stocks that have gained value that day are called 'advances' and the ones that have lost value are called 'declines'. Advances-declines is a ratio that gives an indication of whether the market was bullish (if ratio over 1.0) or bearish.
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Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 are indexes or baskets of stocks.\n\nThey're used as a proxy for the various markets.  So when the S&P, Dow, and NAsdaq are up, they say the market is up.\n\nHere's how you read the #'s part.\n\nhttp://www.investopedia.com/university/tables/tables1.asp\n\n\nHere's general info on the indexes.\n\nhttp://www.investopedia.com/university/indexes/\n\nFor Thu, Dow closed at 12,103.30  \nIt was down73.24 or -0.60%\n\nToday's high was 12187.03\nToday's low was 12090.26\n\n\nHope that helps!
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Well if you are looking for emerging trends in banking and in financial services I would have to say one of the major trends is to go into the overseas/developing/emerging markets. Doing deals and making investments in these relatively new and developing countries is a bit volatile and they have gotten their clock cleaned this year...but overall the sentiment seems to be to go to international to lesser developed economies.
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What timeframe are you interested in trading it?  Long term (> 3 mo) or shorter term?\n\nBTW, BSC is in a strong sector which just broke out again last week.  GS is one of the leaders in the sector and went from 184 to over 199 in about a week.\n\nI'll add more later once I get a better feel what you're looking for.\n\nNov 21, 2006
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The first uses financial and economic analysis to try and predict the movement of prices.  This could be the general economic data, earnings reports, industry reports, and so on.\n\nThe second uses the time series data of the price and volume and similar things.  It's like staring at the chart of prices and predicting what will happen in the future.  The assumption is that there are patterns in the data.
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The classic work on fundamental analysis is the book "Security Analysis" by Graham and Dodd.  It was first published in 1932 and was then updated in the late 1940's and in the early 1960's.  It is still considered the classic and best work on the subject; but it is somewhat out of line with current thinking on valuation of companies.  Not that current thinking is proven to be accurate but nevertheless it has changed.  However, such people as Warren Buffet follow the priciples described in this work.
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It is reasonable for a web site to display daily highs and lows for specific securities, but the validity of such figures for a portfolio of multiple securities is questionable.\n\nA simplified approach would be just to add up all the daily highs for each security and show that as the daily high of the portfolio, and do the same for the daily lows, but since the different securities were presumably traded independently during the day, unless the software has records of every trade for every security for the full day, it is impossible to know what the value of the portfolio was at any time, and the software cannot know the true max and min values.
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Fundamentals are nice to look at, but never ignore the technicals which are the charts. Charts never lies, no matter what's the rumor is, go back and look at the charts.\n\nTo look at fundamentals, look at its sales and profit history, hows the sector performing, are the funds jumpining into the stock.\n\nTechnicals look at if there are any spikes, what's the chart doing, hows the volume for every close, pullbacks, support on 50 and 100 day moving average\n \nYahoo Finance, and MSN Money have great tools to make use of to enhance your stock experience.
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You can find a great article describing what a market analysis is and how to do one here:\nhttp://www.bplans.com/ma/article.cfm/69?sf=market%20analysis&match=best
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http://www.investopedia.com/professionals/series7/
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Go to Yahoo finance.\nType in the ticker of the stock you want\ngo to "historical prices" it is the fourth choic down on the left side. then simply go to the date you want. it gives you the trading range for the day and the closing price
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The company and a consensus of analysts have forecasted the earnings of the company out 12 months and divide it by the current price. Many people tend to use the Forward PE because it is a better indicator of where the company may go rather than where the company has been. \n\nFor example, a drug company may start selling a potential blockbuster drug next year. On this news the stock explodes, but since the company will not realized any profit until next year the current PE seems more expenses. Therefore we use the forward PE.
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All the above are wrong. They are describing the record date. The ex-date is the date on which the closing price of the dividend paying security has its closing price reduced by the amount of the dividend.
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A moving average does nothing more than provide additional statistical trading analysis, it should be used to meet your personal trading strategy. Your strategy might not even include a moving average.\n\nGenerally you could use a shorter moving average for a shorter expected holding time, but also they are used together to show a major difference in how the short term movement campares to it's longer term movement.\n\nFor example a few years ago I used moving averages in my strategy, I used several moving averages. I looked for Equities that had 20 day moving averages that were falling drastically with 50 day moving averages very high and just starting to fall. hoping to find equities that have been recently over sold.