Overview The Public Short Ratio (“PSR”) shows the relationship between the number of public short sales and the total number of short sales. (The Public Short Ratio is sometimes referred to as the non-member short ratio.) Interpretation The interpretation of the PSR assumes one premise: that of the short sellers, […]
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Overview The Price and Volume Trend (“PVT”) is similar to On Balance Volume (“OBV,”) in that it is a cumulative total of volume that is adjusted depending on changes in closing prices. But where OBV adds all volume on days when prices close higher and subtracts all volume on days […]
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Overview CANSLIM is an acronym for a stock market investment method developed by William O’Neil. O’Neil is the founder and chairman of Investor’s Business Daily, a national business newspaper. He also heads an investment research organization, William O’Neil & Company, Inc. Drawing from his study of the greatest money-making stocks […]
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Overview Accumulation/Distribution is a momentum indicator that associates changes in price and volume. The indicator is based on the premise that the more volume that accompanies a price move, the more significant the price move. Interpretation Accumulation/Distribution is really a variation of the more popular On Balance Volume indicator . Both of […]
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Overview Inspired by the prior work of Joe Granville and Larry Williams, Marc Chaikin developed a new volume indicator, extending the work done by his predecessors. The Chaikin Oscillator is a moving average oscillator based on the Accumulation/Distribution indicator. Interpretation The following discussion of volume accumulation/distribution interpretation, written by Marc […]
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