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Dow Theory and the Forex Market

forex — Wed, 12 May 2010 00:27:19 +0000

Dow took a further analysis of the relationship between the trend of the market volume and the trend level of quotation indexes. The Dow theory states that during the bull maket the growth of rates is accompanied by increasing the trading volume and price reductions decreases the volume. In the interim of technical correction, despite the depreciation of prices, a simultaneous decrease in volume is a clear predictor of the overall rising trend, which will soon have the chance to go from the “shadow zone” to light.

Analogicly – in the bear market – there is an inverse relationship. During the main recede trend, we have to deal with the increase, which is accompanied by decreases in quotes. By contrast, sales volume decreases when listing the technical correction grow to the top. According to Dow it is a symptom of a general bear market, because the observed increase in the priceusually turns out to be very volatile.

Dow Theory was mainly first used to identify the trends of the market crisis on the American Stock Exchange NYSE. Dow used the stock exchange indexes (DJIA and the DJTA).

Dow Theory has no practical applications for determining the point of buying or selling currency pairs on the Forex market. However, this theory makes sense, because the knowledge of the main assumptions of this theory enables us to understand the other well-known theories and systems to determine the turning points in courses such as Elliott wave theory, or simply then it will be easier to learn the trend analysis, analysis of the formation and help to determine entry and exit points to the forex market.

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Does Dow theory is relevant to the Forex market? part 2

forex — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:07:01 +0000

According to the Dow – the end of bull market is also beginning of a bear market and a major downward trend is divided, like the bull market, also in three phases. The first period is known as distribution phase. This is the final phase of speculation of the smaller investors. Long-term investors begin to sell a choosen currency, whose exchange rate is highly inflated. Demand is gradually decreasing, and supply is increasing.

This all means that the panic on the market started as the next phase of the bear market. The largest investors have already sold their shares, and yet do not intend to re-enter to the market. A major demand from their part dies, and small investors are starting to get rid of the currency. Demand, however, does not allow them to achieve their original goals, so the discount rate becomes accelerated. Sometimes at this stage beginsa panic with sales at every, even very low, price.

After the panic phase there is often short-lived boom. But this is not the end of bear market, rather the pause between second and third wave of the bear market. Investors saw the weakness of grow withdraw their funds from the market by agreeing to only a slightly reduced losses compared to the bottom of the listing phase during panic.

In the third stage of the bear market, the main source of supply are those who purchased a choosen currency at a temporary boom, hoping that the boom is coming here again. Exchange rate begins to decrease again. Rate decreases, until finally all the bad news will be discounted. Then again can start a new boom. Cycle of a stock according to Dow closes at this point.

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