Market Internals 005 – NYSE Tick
The NYSE Tick Index gives us the relationship of stocks up ticking versus down ticking at their last traded price. The Tick is an extremely useful tool for intraday traders.
The NYSE Tick Index gives us the relationship of stocks up ticking versus down ticking at their last traded price. The Tick is an extremely useful tool for intraday traders.
TRIN stands for TRaders’ INdex and was developed by Richard Arms in 1989 (it’s also referred to as the Arms Index). Its main purpose is for detecting overbought and oversold levels in the markets.
The Advance/Decline Line or ‘A/D Line’ for short, is the second most important of the internals. This indicator tells us the net sum of advancing stocks minus declining stocks.
The Breadth Ratio is a volume ratio composed of volume flowing into up stocks versus volume flowing into down stocks. This reading is important in relation to where it has been, especially where we are now compared to where we opened on the day.
Market Internals are similar to the instrument cluster on your car, without them you really do not know the condition of the market environment or how fast you are moving.
If you could only use one indicator, which one would you choose?
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