Thursday’s Market Analysis For The DJIA (.DJI)
$DIA
US major market indexes reacted positively to Wednesday’s FOMC decision to not raise rates, ignoring indications of a possible rate-hike to December.
That said, as mentioned Wednesday, the DJIA at 17779.52, +1.13% has an Key Resistance mark here.
Please see the chart below.
| Last Updated: | 28-Oct-15 | |||||||||
| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | 52 Wk Hi | 52 Wk Lo | ||||
| 28-Oct-15 | 17586.69 | 17779.95 | 17556.71 | 17779.52 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||
Outlook: Neutral to Bullish
Position: Neutral, standing aside
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI), also called the DJIA, Industrial Average, the Dow Jones, the Dow Jones Industrial, the Dow 30, the DJIA, or simply the Dow, is a stock market index, and one of several indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow.
The DJIA was 1st calculated on 26 May 1896.
Currently the DJIA is owned by S&P Dow Jones Indices, which is majority owned by McGraw-Hill Financial, it is the most notable of the Dow Averages, of which the 1st (non-industrial) was 1st published on 16 February 1885.
The averages are named after Mr. Dow and one of his business associates, statistician Edward Jones.
It is an index that shows how 30 large publicly owned companies based in the United States have traded during a standard trading session in the stock market.
The Stochastic Oscillator
The theory behind this indicator is that in an upward-trending market, prices tend to close near their high, and during a downward-trending market, prices tend to close near their low. Transaction signals occur when the %K crosses through a 3-period moving average called the “%D”
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