If you are not familiar TICK is a powerful indicator showing program buying. It shows the up tick vs down tick of the entire S&P market.. Notice it fired up beginning of March and it simply did not stop! Shortly thereafter it stopped SPY from selling any more past $240 with a hard support nailed in. Clearly the market will try again, and will fail at the...
How I used NYSE TICK today w/ extremes ~ -1.000: In correction steep DT after news hit the wires 17:36 CET that US is weighing to limit US investors' portfolio flows into China, a move that would have repercussions for billions of dollars in investments pegged to the major indices; also they're apparently pondering delisting of Chinese companies from US stock...
When I recently mentioned that I largely didn't use a chart when scalping /ES, I got a bunch of queer looks out of people. "I just use TICK," I explain. "You know, TICK?" (NYSE Cumulative TICK). More puzzled looks. There's a lengthy Investopedia definition of the thing, so I won't bore you with those details; I'll just explain how I use it. (Note: I use the...
The tick index measures the very short term health of the markets by taking the difference between the number of stocks on an uptick and the number of stocks on a downtick. The Tick index sums up this difference for all stocks in the New York Stock Exchange. The goal of the VIX is to estimate the implied volatility of the S&P 500 index over the next 30 days....