Interpretations of a number of technical tools involving graphic displays are presented on a weekly basis in the website investment service.   We maintain a large selection of technical and fundamental measurement functions and interpret each of them for you on a weekly basis in the website presentation pages.  The following is a list of the various functions that we use for this purpose.

• The DJIA and its 13, 26, and 39 week exponential moving averages (EXMA's).
• The S&P500 and its 13, 26, and 39 week exponential moving averages (EXMA's).
• The NASDAQ Composite index and its 13, 26, and 39 week exponential moving averages (EXMA's).
• Our own version of the Haurlan Indices with parameters which have proven reliable over the years as indicators of investor sentiment and market trend. Haurlen Indices are exponential averages of NYSE daily advances minus declines (market breadth).
• A variety of overbought-oversold indicators based on price action, market breadth, volume and its relationships to up and down price movements, most active stocks, new highs and lows, etc.
• A variety of proprietary overall market momentum (price trend, investor sentiment trend, and changes in these trends) indicators based on price action, breadth, volume, most active stocks, new highs and lows, etc.
• Plots displaying important fundamental market information such as the history of interest rates, dividend rates, price to earnings ratios, price to book value, etc.

Application Examples: A simple interpretation of our Haurlan Indicators has kept investors on the "right side" of all major, and most intermediate and short term, market trends for decades. Our momentum functions have provided fairly reliable indications of changing investor sentiment and market trends, and they have often presaged short term market trend reversals by a few days since we developed them early in the decade of the 1990's.  Momentum signals are not 100% reliable--neither is any other method--but a distinct majority of these momentum signals have proven correct over the years.

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