This Week’s PowerRatings Lessons
Everyday at TradingMarkets we publish new ways to use
PowerRatings
in your trading. Here is a brief recap of this
week’s
PowerRatings
lessons.
Using
PowerRatings
to trade emerging markets
TradingMarkets
provides a daily list of
ETF PowerRatings. From that extensive list you can create your own watch
lists (using the
My PowerRatings Portfolio tool) to trade the markets/sectors that are
performing best/worst. Emerging markets have been
particularly strong over the past year. While the S&P 500 is up 3.45% YTD, the
iShares MSCI Brazil Index (EWZ)
is up 28.74% YTD, and the 1-year return is 75.67%.
With these kind of
returns, investors should watch emerging market ETFs closely for buying/selling
opportunities. This is where
PowerRatings
can help. Focus on ETFs with
PowerRatings
of 7-10 and avoid those with
PowerRatings
of 1-3. Using this strategy, you could rotate into the emerging
market with the highest probability of outperforming the S&P 500 over the next
5-days.
Read more…
Using
PowerRatings
to trade low-priced stocks
In today’s
PowerRatings
strategy we’re going to take a look at how you can use PowerRatings
to trade Low-Priced Stocks. The
following list of low-priced stocks all had
PowerRatings
of 8 on 02/28/06: ASE Test (ASTSF),
Ciena (CIEN),
Qiao Xing Universal (XING),
Bally Total Fitness (BTF)
and Antigenics (AGEN).
I’ve also included the chart of the S&P 500 over the same period. As you can
see, while these five stocks recorded good gains, the S&P 500 actually went down
over the same 5-day timeframe.
Read more…
Using
PowerRatings
to trade the trend
In today’s article we’re going to take a look at how
you could have performed trading with the market trend. The S&P 500 has lost
0.99% over the past 5 days. We’ll take this to indicate that the trend has been
lower and therefore, that looking for short selling candidates would have been a
good strategy.
Here is a list of stocks that had a
PowerRating
of
2 on 03/01/06.
These 10 stocks were selected from the list of
Lowest PowerRatings Stocks that is published every day. Once again, they are
not necessarily the ten best examples — a number of stocks with a PowerRating
of 1 dropped even more than some of these.
Read more…
TradingMarkets recently released a proprietary FOREX ranking
method called
FOREX
PowerRatings.
This simple-to-use methodology looks at the seven most popular cross-currencies
and identifies the strongest and weakest pairs. A rating between 1-7 is given to
each pair, with 1 being the strongest and 7 being the weakest.
The algorithm identifies which pairs are seeing large inflows
of money and which pairs are seeing large outflows. Due to the dynamic nature of
FOREX markets these ratings are constantly changing throughout the day and
updated free every 20-minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Read more…
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to take a free trial of
PowerRatings.
You can also
attend a free
class on how to use
PowerRatings
presented by Steve Primo, our Director of Education.
Ashton Dorkins
Editor-in-Chief