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Helene Meisler
Helene Meisler writes a daily technical analysis column and TheStreet Top Stocks. For more information, click here. Meisler spent more than a decade on the sell side as a market technician covering institutional accounts at various investment banks in New York City, including Cowen & Co. and Goldman Sachs. In addition she worked at Cargill in Minneapolis where she managed equity money for three years. She received her bachelor's degree in business from Pace University.
Recent Articles By The Author
Don't Try to Rationalize the Extremes
We've got some far out readings and we could brush them off as outliers ... but here's what happened when I did that once in late 2007....
Why the Bearishness? This Might Be the Reason
The action in the market the last two days hasn't changed this S&P 500 chart -- its moving average still looms overhead around 2950 -- and that's probably why so many are still bearish.
Charting Volatility
The VIX appears unlikely to fall back near 12, but a big explosion higher isn't backed up by the indicators yet, either.
'Let's Go to the Charts!'
The challenge now is to figure out when this oversold rally will have run its course, so we can come back down again.
More Ups and Downs to Come
Despite Friday's action with nearly 90% of volume on the upside, it still looks like we rally and then fall.
Was That the Best the Market Could Do?
Sure breadth was green, but Thursday's rally was still pathetic, especially as net volume was negative by almost a billion shares.
We'll Rise (and Fall) Again
Despite the inverted-yield curve hysteria, the indicators show we should rally and come down again.
Tuesday's Rally Was Not 'It' (In Case Anyone Wanted to Know)
Tuesday's rally was different than last Thursday's in terms of participation and many other indicators -- and no one popped the big question.
The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
If we go look at the market over the last 18 months, we can see despite the indexes going nowhere, there has been a lot of up and down -- that's been the trend in the market, so it's best to be flexible.
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