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Chart Analysis - Index Indicators

Dow Jones Industrials (^DJI) Index


 

How to read charts the Dow Jones Industrials Index Indicator?

The 30 stocks now in the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index are all major factors in their industries, and their stocks are widely held by individuals and institutional investors. At the end of 1999, these 30 stocks accounted for about 28 percent of the $12 trillion-plus market value of all U.S. stocks.

DJI chart Analysis

When interpreting the chart above, you need to remember that the most important factor is the relationship between Index Price and the Volume Moving Average (VMA). Here we see that the index has taken an advancing trend with not much supporting volume to cause this change. This occurs because investors are taking profit from covering their short orders; this causes the market to increase. When the VMA has peaked, professional investors once again enter into a short position by selling; this action causes the index to trend down again. It is just after this VMA peak that one should make a trading decision.

Below is an example of how one of our exclusive institutional investors used this signal for the index to maximize profits by trading some of the derivatives of the Dow Jones Industrials index:

Security Return
Stocks 2%
Options 25%

Details of the above trades, and the derivatives used for this index, can be found in the detailed overview and in the member's section of our site.

Listed below are some of the derivatives which you can trade using this indicator:

Securities Issuer Type Symbol / Root
DIAMONDS AMEX ETF DIA
Dow Jones Industrial Average "MITTS" Merrill Lynch ETF MDJ
DJIA "TIERS" Structured Products Corp. ETF ISB
Dow Jones Industrial Average CBOE Options DJX
Dow Jones Industrial Average LEAPS CBOE Options MUT
Dow Jones Industrial Average CBOT Futures ZD/DJ
Dow Jones Industrial Average CBOT Options on Futures OZD/DJC calls
DJP puts

By trading index securities using our volume indicators instead of stocks, you gain stability and predictability that stocks do not have. An index is a far more logical in its actions than the individual stocks it is based upon.

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