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Analyze, Profit From IBD's Market Charts.(GENERAL MARKET & SECTORS)
Analyzing the price and volume changes in the major market averages each day is essential to successful investing. They reveal major tops and bottoms in the stock market.
Most stocks follow the general market's trend. They tend to rise when the Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Dow industrials move higher. They tend to fall when the major indexes trade lower.
Therefore, it's vital to understand the market's direction, as well as secondary indicators that are included on this page. You do not want to buy stocks when the averages are in a downtrend. You do not want to be in cash or betting stocks will go down in price when the Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Dow indexes are in an uptrend.
The Big Picture column on A1 helps you spot major market turns and judge the overall health of the stock market. Use it in conjunction with the General Markets & ...
- In Theory, Dow Industrials Set for Fall
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Dave Kansas December 13, 1994 700+ words
...with minds of their own. While the Dow industrials have stubbornly hung within reach...Wednesday and Thursday. Meanwhile, the Dow industrials are still within 8 percent of their...services are lightly represented in the Dow industrials. "The theory is obsolete, because...
- Stocks rise; oil fears limit Dow Industrials
- Newspaper article from: The Journal Record April 19, 1996 700+ words
...industrial average to a slight gain. The Dow industrials edged up 1.81 points to close at...08. Oil stocks weighed down the Dow industrials with Exxon, Chevron and Texaco among...rising 1 3/4 to 55 3/4. Among the Dow industrials, McDonald's, Sears and General...
- Dow Industrials Top 3,800 Level
- Newspaper article from: The Journal Record January 7, 1994 700+ words
...declines on the Big Board, by fewer than 20 stocks. The Dow industrials rose 5.06 past the previous record reached Wednesday to...Market watchers didn't attach too much importance to the Dow industrials reaching another new high. They noted that the advance...
- Dow industrials top 6,200 as interest rates hit 8-month low
- Newspaper article from: The Journal Record November 8, 1996 700+ words
...industrial average above 6,200 for the first time. The Dow industrials rose 28.33 to 6,206.04, erasing an early 28- point...and any sweeping government initiatives in check. The Dow industrials, which soared more than 33 percent in 1995 during the first...
- DOW INDUSTRIALS SOAR 75.03; LARGEST ONE-DAY GAIN EVER
- Newspaper article from: The Journal Record September 23, 1987 700+ words
...rally came hard on the heels of a correction that saw the Dow industrials losing 115.95 points since last Monday and 230 points...wore on, the winners-to-losers ratio reversed as the Dow industrials continued to pick up strength. ``The market exploded...
- Coca-Cola, Boeing Added to Dow Industrials Index
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Bill Menezes March 12, 1987 700+ words
...McDonald's Corp. Dow Jones said it was dropping Inco, a Dow industrials component since 1928, in order to add a stock that would...products. Owens-Illinois, a 28-year component of the Dow industrials, is the object of a leveraged buyout set to expire March...
- Dow industrials slip 21.68
- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel February 15, 1996 700+ words
...bank's policy committee has trimmed borrowing rates three times in the last seven months. Swinford said he expects the Dow industrials will add only another 200 points during the rest of the year. The Dow has risen 227 points over the last seven sessions...
- Dow Industrials Reach Five-month High
- Newspaper article from: The Journal Record August 27, 1994 700+ words
...to rise again soon. Then speculators, seeing the market advance sharply just two days after a 70-point runup in the Dow industrials, executed repeated program purchases to cover short positions. Short sellers sell borrowed stocks in the hope of replacing...