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Strategies & Market Trends : MACD has been good to me....How about You? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SouthFloridaGuy who wrote (419)	11/11/1998 11:05:00 PM
From: AugustWest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1109

from Ask Research: MACD The Moving Average Convergence/Divergence is a good medium term indicator developed by George Appel that signals overbought and oversold conditions by measuring the intensity of public sentiment. Use the crossover of the fast moving average through the slower moving average to arrive at buy or sell signals. MACD is especially valuable when used in conjunction with a momentum indicator such as Stochastic or RSI. Since MACD is a sensitive indicator of public sentiment it can be applied to mutual funds as well as stocks and some technicians believe a 8-17-9 MACD is best for entering long positions and 12-25-9 for exiting them. askresearch.com FWIW, I have been shying away lately from waiting fot the sell indicator. Just seems that the potential to lose up to 20% or more is too great. I have been doing the sells on gut feeling lately, but I guess that's easy when you run into a run of big gainers such as the market has productd lately. Hope this helps a little more in the clarification.