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Old 04-26-2007, 10:20 PM
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Re: DOW/Gap Plays:Fade/Trade/OR Just Observe ?

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Many stock charts (e.g. AMZN) are giving mixed signals. Some stocks have shown exhaustion and overbought indications before the DOW reaching an all-time high.
Michael - in a trend - up or down - indicators are going to be useless in my opinion. Just look how long AMZN has been 'overbought'.

One thing I learned about indicators - they can stay overbought much longer than your account can stomach trying to short them. I don't use these types of indicators anymore for this very example. As soon as you get caught into a strong trend and your indicator keeps saying it's time to short, you will get hammered. Once the market takes a breather and/or enters more 'choppy' times, the indicator will look like gold assuming you and your account are still trading.

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