Arms is a renowned stock market technician. He invented the Arms Index (often referred to as the TRIN), which has become a mainstay of market analysis, appearing daily in The Wall Street Journal and weekly in Barron's. Arms also developed the widely used technical method Equivolume Charting.
Since 1996, Arms has been publishing the Arms Advisory newsletter for money managers and financial institutions. He also has authored five books, including Stop and Make Money: How to Profit in the Stock Market Using Volume and Stop Orders, Profits in Volume and Trading Without Fear, and has been honored with the Market Technicians' Award for Lifetime Contribution to Technical Analysis. Earlier in his career, he was a retail broker for 15 years at E.F. Hutton and, later, managed an institutional portfolio with assets of about $150 million.
| Jun 18, 2013 | 7:00 AM EDT
We have further to go, but resistance looms overhead.
| Jun 11, 2013 | 7:00 AM EDT
The biggest pullback of the year generated little concern.
| Jun 06, 2013 | 7:00 AM EDT
The shift from a rising market to a falling one is becoming clearer.
| Jun 04, 2013 | 7:00 AM EDT
Aggressive traders should look at the short side of the market.
| May 30, 2013 | 7:00 AM EDT
Despite the pullback, we remain in an overbought condition.
| May 23, 2013 | 7:00 AM EDT
It looks late to buy but there's not enough evidence to justify going short.
| May 21, 2013 | 7:00 AM EDT
Traders are getting unrealistic in their expectations.
| May 16, 2013 | 7:00 AM EDT
The five-day and 10-day Arms Index readings are pointing to a drop.
| May 14, 2013 | 7:00 AM EDT
The advance is slowing, though we have not yet seen a sign of weakness.
| May 09, 2013 | 7:00 AM EDT
There are no levels we can look at as likely stalling points.
