Accumulative Swing Index - ASI

  

As soon as everyone arrives at the party, the husbands put their car keys in one fish bowl, and the wives put their car keys in another––oh, wait. That's a different swing index.

An accumulative swing index is actually a long term trend index, used by chartists and math-loving traders, which assesses the bias of a given stock and its trading pattern. Myriad complex elements get analyzed, with a focus on the open, closed, high, and low prices as they've traded throughout a given day, mapped to other days, mapped to periods of the year, mapped to the performance relative to the overall stock and usually options markets. Blood-sniffing traders are hunting for trend line breakouts that would give them a signal that the moon has, in fact, aligned with Aquarius, and Jupiter is hugging Mars with its gravity...so then of course it must be time to short GOOG.

Right? Isn't that how chartists work? Maybe we should ask the fish bowl.

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