Watch David Hickson’s Trading Summary Video for 25 February 2013. Watch Now – Hurst Trading Room – Video Summary – 25 February 2013 In this video I present the summary of the four instruments we are following in the Hurst Trading Room: The S&P 500 entered into a short B […]
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For several weeks we have been preparing for the cycles to turn down in the US markets, which they did this week, forming a likely peak of the current 20-week cycle. The markets fought back on Friday, but trading volume was distinctly thinner, and the bounce smacked of a hopeful […]
One of the issues that newcomers to Hurst’s Cyclic Principles struggle with the most is that at times markets seem to be showing very little cyclic influence, and they move in a straight line, up, down or flat. Other cyclic theories suggest that cycles come and go, that a cycle […]
Watch David Hickson’s Trading Summary Video for 11 February 2013. Watch Now – Hurst Trading Room – Video Summary – 11 February 2013 In this video I present the summary of the four instruments we are following in the Hurst Trading Room: The S&P 500 is still poised to enter […]
Hurst’s Principle of Commonality states that different financial markets move with a great deal in common. A result of this is that markets tend to form troughs and peaks at about the same time (sometimes at exactly the same time), even if the magnitude of those troughs or peaks is […]
Cycle dominance is an aspect of the Hurst cyclic model of financial markets that is often dismissed as a small detail on the way towards reaching a final analysis. Identifying the dominant cycle (or dominant cycles, because there can be more than one) is one of the first tasks one […]
Watch David Hickson’s Trading Summary Video for 28 January 2013. Watch Now – Hurst Trading Room – Video Summary – 28 January 2013 David comments… The S&P 500 reached new highs last week, but the Nasdaq didn’t. The markets are looking fractured, and so I am wary of a strong […]
As the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average reached up to new highs this week (above their respective highs of September 2012) I was struck again by the dichotomy between analysis and trading. As an analyst I look ahead to determine what is coming next, and build a picture […]
Watch David Hickson’s Trading Summary Video for 21 January 2013. Watch Now – Hurst Trading Room – Video Summary – 21 January 2013 David comments… Interesting times in the markets as the US markets reached higher last week. I continue to expect an F-category short trade next in the S&P […]
Hurst defined two cyclic tools: the FLD (Future Line of Demarcation) and the VTL (Valid Trend Line). The FLD is in my opinion the more reliable of the two when it comes to trading (which is why we created the FLD Trading Strategy), but the VTL can often provide some […]