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		<title><![CDATA[The Golden Cross with Transport Index Confirmation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits: A lot of chatter about the stock market&#8217;s upcoming golden cross has focused on whether the Dow Jones Transportation Index (DJT) is confirming a bullish trend.   Unfamiliar with the golden cross? Read our take on the cross, about its two flavors SMA and EMA and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:02:13 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[More on the Gold/Stock Market Correlation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits: I&#8217;m doing a little playing around with the short-term interaction between the price of gold and the stock market. Some semi-interesting observations&#8230; by Michael Stokes]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 12:22:11 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SPY / DIA Pairs Trade Highlights Importance of Data]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits: This strategy is another example of the importance of the right data, and not confusing the intricacies of indices with the intricacies of ETFs (or futures, or options, or anything else). The strategy comes from friend of the MarketSci Blog Russ: buy the S&P 500 and short...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 12:08:13 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Defining the McClellan Oscillator - Part III]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F133144-defining-the-mcclellan-oscillator-part-iii%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits: This is a multi-part series poking around the edges of the McClellan Oscillator (MO), a breadth indicator using the number of advancing and declining issues to measure the degree of participation in market moves read more.   In my previous post, I looked at rising/falling and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:55:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Defining the McClellan Oscillator]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits: I&#8217;m going to do a few posts looking at the McClellan Oscillator, and I wanted to take a moment to define just what it is and what it is not.   Like most formulas that get pared down to a single name (Sharpe Ratio, CCI, whatever)...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:42:54 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Another 'Why History Is Not a Guide' for Today's Trading]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits: I usually don&#8217;t like to talk about strategies that don&#8217;t work, but this one was interesting and I think proves an important point, so here goes&#8230;  I was inspired by the Quantifiable Edge&#8217;s post Bank Action and the Market to look at how the market has...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:44:07 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[100% Abnormal Market Reading Is Back]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F123760-100-abnormal-market-reading-is-back%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits: After easing briefly, the Abnormal Market Filter has ratcheted back up to 100%.  The Abnormal Market Filter is a concept I began to employ in some of my own strategies late last year. Read previous posts here, here, and here. by Michael Stokes]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:28:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Abnormal Market Filter: 'Barricade the Doors']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F122266-the-abnormal-market-filter-barricade-the-doors%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits: For the first time since the market meltdown last October, on Tuesday, the Abnormal Market Filter reading moved to 100%.  Over the last few months, I've talked a lot about my mechanism to determine when the market is acting &#8220;abnormally." It's called the Abnormal Market Filter....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:50:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Short-Term Mean-Reversion Becoming Stronger: So What?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits: This is the final post about the short-term daily stock market mean-reversion becoming stronger (read part 1, part 2, and part 3), and will wrap up the discussion on the subject. So far, this has been a pretty geeky conversation and I&#8217;m afraid that I still haven&#8217;t...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:50:22 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Short-Term Mean-Reversion Becoming Stronger: Wood&#8217;s Light Bulb]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F120756-short-term-mean-reversion-becoming-stronger-wood-8217-s-light-bulb%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits: Recently I&#8217;ve shown that daily stock market mean-reversion is becoming stronger at an accelerating pace and attempted to explain why. Understanding this shift is key to trading short-term swing strategies like RSI(2) or daily follow-through.  Woodshedder from my blogroll made a very interesting observation in response...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:52:29 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Short-Term Mean-Reversion Becoming Stronger: The Why]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F120180-short-term-mean-reversion-becoming-stronger-the-why%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits:This is a long overdue follow up to my first post showing that day-to-day stock market mean-reversion is becoming stronger. Understanding this shift is key to trading short-term swing strategies like RSI(2) or adaptive daily follow-through.  In this post, I want to look at why, or more...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:01:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trading Strategy: Gold vs. Gold Stocks]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F118666-trading-strategy-gold-vs-gold-stocks%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits: Last month I shared a strategy that used the ratio between oil stocks and the price of oil itself to trade the oil sector read part I and part II.  Keeping with that theme, in this post I&#8217;ll look at using the ratio between gold stocks...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:26:41 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Abnormal Market Filter: Back in Action]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F116335-abnormal-market-filter-back-in-action%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits:Back in October, I talked a lot about a mechanism to determine when the market was acting &#8220;abnormally.&#8221;     My solution was fairly simple: I measured when the market had become extremely stretched either up or down under the premise that when the market reaches...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:29:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Using the Commodity Channel Index as a Trading Strategy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F115476-using-the-commodity-channel-index-as-a-trading-strategy%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits:This is a quick look at using the Commodity Channel Index (CCI) as a contrarian indicator to trade the stock market. I&#8217;m just starting to dig my teeth into CCI and I&#8217;m not proposing this as the best use, just a use.     Unfamiliar with...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:20:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Moving Average Spectrum - Part 2]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F115324-the-moving-average-spectrum-part-2%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits:This is a follow up to my post The Moving Average Spectrum. Like the first, this one is a bit on the complicated side, but I think important to understanding how to trade these unruly markets.  My last post demonstrated the idea that:  Short-term (let&#8217;s say,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:17:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Moving Average Spectrum - Part 1]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F115323-the-moving-average-spectrum-part-1%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits:This post will be a bit on the complicated side, but if you&#8217;ll invest in wrapping your head around the concept, I think it will do a lot to demonstrate one of the cornerstones of my view on trading these unruly markets.     A theme...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:16:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Testing TradingMarket's Rule #9: Avoid Being Churned with ADX]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F114132-testing-tradingmarket-s-rule-9-avoid-being-churned-with-adx%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits: This is the last part of this week&#8217;s series on TradingMarkets.com&#8217;s 10 Trading Rules. In this post, I&#8217;ll look at TM&#8217;s rule #9: use the ADX indicator to avoid getting churned.  TM advocates not trading the market when the 10-day ADX is below 20 because in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:20:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Testing TradingMarket's Rule #5: The VIX 5% Rule]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F113791-testing-tradingmarket-s-rule-5-the-vix-5-rule%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits: This is the fourth part of this week&#8217;s series on TradingMarket.com&#8217;s (TM) 10 Trading Rules. In this post, I&#8217;ll look at the fifth in TM&#8217;s list: the VIX 5% rule.  TM advocates not being long the market when the VIX is more than 5% below its...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:38:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Testing TradingMarket's Rules #3&4: Don't Fight the Long-Term Trend]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits: This is part three of this week&#8217;s series on TradingMarket.com&#8217;s (TM) 10 Trading Rules. In this post, I&#8217;ll look at TM&#8217;s third and fourth rules which could be summarized as: don&#8217;t fight the long-term trend.     TM advocates a long bias when a stock...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:18:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Testing TradingMarket's Rule #2: Buy the Market after It's Dropped, Not after It's Risen]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F113595-testing-tradingmarket-s-rule-2-buy-the-market-after-it-s-dropped-not-after-it-s-risen%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stokes submits: This is part two of this week&#8217;s series on TradingMarket.com&#8217;s (TM) 10 Trading Rules. In this post, I&#8217;ll look at TM&#8217;s Rule #2: buy the market after it&#8217;s dropped not after it&#8217;s risen. As evidence, TM looks at the market after it has either fallen or risen...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:18:44 -0800</pubDate>
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