by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Apr 8, 2021 | Indicator Insights
For this week’s indicator, we look at the relative performance of stocks versus bonds. These are the two financial assets that people are probably most familiar with. And if you’re saving for retirement, you likely have most of your savings invested in a mix...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Apr 1, 2021 | Indicator Insights
This week’s featured indicator looks at the percentage of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) making new 52-week lows. Since it tracks the percentage of stocks breaking down in price, we call it a measure of “downside leadership.” Why is this...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 25, 2021 | Indicator Insights
When you buy a stock, you are essentially paying for the earnings that the underlying business generates. If you compare how much a company is earning on a per-share basis relative to how much you pay for it, you get what is called an earnings yield. For...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 18, 2021 | Indicator Insights
Volatility, in plain terms, is a measure of how much prices move up and down over a given period. But there are many ways to measure volatility. For our featured indicator this week, we evaluate it using something called an Absolute Breadth Index. The...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 11, 2021 | Indicator Insights
This week’s featured indicator focuses on the High Quality/Low Quality Index. This is what we call a “relative strength” indicator because it takes the performance of one stock index and divides it by another to get a relative strength line. When the line is...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 4, 2021 | Indicator Insights
Imagine you throw a ball into the air. What happens? The ball keeps rising for a while—due to its momentum—and then it tumbles back to earth as gravity takes over. This is the basic concept of this week’s featured indicator: Momentum Reversals. Momentum is...
