The "How to use TroughFinder " HOW-TO page has been completely re-written with far more granular past history performance and specific examples of previous crashes and how you would have used the signalling system to detect the bottoms of these corrections. You are strongly advised to re-read this document front to back to prepare yourself for the next TroughFinder signal. In fact, we insist you re-read it.

Due to the interest among subscribers of a very rare McClellan divergence we are curren...
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We are now rolling out our HOW-TO Pages to assist subscribers with tutorials on how to interpret all our charts, breadth indicators and timing systems. This is work-in-progress folks, predicated by the amount of "newbies" to the JSE that have signed up with us recently. We have technique and instructional. Currently we have technique for risk reduction and investing best practices and instructional HOW-TO's for McClellan, JBAR and TroughFinder.

The "How use the JBAR Report for risk-reduction a...
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We have launched the PowerStocks JSE Breadth Analysis Report (JBAR) to provide subscribers with more up to date and timely status on the health and direction of the JSE as opposed to waiting for The Weekly JSE Pulse.

JBAR has the 10 most important breadth indicators that we study and analyse daily to trade with on our personal accounts. They are the McClellan Oscillator and Summation Index, the Advance/Decline and Decline/Advance Ratio charts, the Upside/Downside Volume ratio charts, Buying D...
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PowerStocks Labs have introduced a short term timing model utilising the Bullish Percentage Index (BPI) market breadth indicator, for investors to use with ETF's and warrants/futures. This timing model transacted 19 times in the last 11 years (every 7 months on average) and was vested in the JSE for only 31% of the time. The other 69% of the time it was safely tucked away in a bank or money market account. The strategy, including all transaction/brokerage costs delivered 719% growth versus th...
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PowerStocks Research in association with ProfileData (www.profile.co.za) are sponsoring R58,000 worth of prizes for the Sunday Times Share competition
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To streamline the issuance of daily alerts to subscribers we have created the HeadsUP Alerts Blog. This will replace the current system of email alerts.

HeadsUP will contain alerts for TroughFinder, Piotroski additions/ejection events based on company results being announced, SwissClock DEFCON alerts and SUPERModel signal changes.
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We are pleased to announce the culmination of 3 months research into a mechanical signalling system for marking major JSE market troughs (formed by a decline of 5% or more in the ALSH index). Using  daily market breadth data such as Advance/Declines and Up/Down Volume that reflect the psychologies of demand, selling pressure, panic and greed, we have derived an unsubjective mechanical system that called 22 major market bottoms in the last 10 years with 95% accuracy. Many of these troughs were...
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In what is believed to be a world first, and the most complex market breadth indicator ever, PowerStocks Labs have launched the JSE Piotroski Financial Strength Index. This measures on a monthly basis, the percentage of JSE shares that have Piotroski "F" Scores > 6 (Strength) and the percentage of JSE shares that have a Piotroski "F" Score of < 3 (financial distress).

We believe this will become an important tool for investors to guage the financial health of corporate SA as well as offer a le...
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