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RDC Independent Analysis Reports





Part1: An Overview of the Analysis



Chapter I:

This look at Rowan Companies, Inc. begins with a Classical Time Series Analysis of the historical stock prices, providing a vantage point over patterns that will be explored in greater detail in the following chapters. See RDC Classical Analysis.

Chapter II:

Understanding Price Volatility behaviour is essential to assessing the risk associated with positions across different time spans. See Rowan Companies, Inc. Price Volatility.

Chapter III:

This section shows historical volumes for sales of RDC stock, along with Seasonal and Cyclical Trends in Volume. See RDC Historical Volume.

Chapter IV:

A look at Traditional Seasonal Analysis of Rowan Companies, Inc. Historical Prices identifies the best and worst months to be invested. See RDC Seasonal Trends.

Chapter V:

Moving Averages of various flavours are popular indicators. Here we test the predictive ability of different averages as applied to prediction of Rowan Companies, Inc. prices. See Running Averages.




Part 2: Technical Analysis Topics



Chapter VI:

Technical Oscillators are compared to test their power as buy or sell signals for speculating in RDC stock. We conduct an extensive investigation of the popular "RSI" of Welles Wilder and some of its variations. See Technical Oscillators

Chapter VII:

A different type of Seasonal Analysis is applied to RDC historical prices. Here the 24 month, November based Political Calendar is the basis for non-standard Seasonal Analysis. See Politics and Prices of RDC.

Chapter VIII:

Volume Stratification Analysis tracks the volumes associated with price levels over the entire history of a stock. The resulting analysis yields a framework for understanding the mechanism behind support and resistance levels, and a scientific basis for predicting price behaviors due to those levels. See Volumetric Analysis

Chapter IX:

Analysis of Market Momentum as the product of Price and Volume drives an interpretation considerably more sophisticated than those that consider Price Momentum alone. See Momentum Investing Indicators.

Chapter X:

The mood of the market toward Rowan Companies, Inc. show up in the Daily Closing Altitude and other Sentiment Indicators. See Market Sentiment.

Chapter XI:

The length of "Runs", (the number of consecutive price movements up or down) reveal some new ways to visualize Price Series Data. A discussion of the "Monte Carlo Fallacy" and it's relevance to Stock Price Prediction leads to a revisionist method of Price Projection using the Bernoulli Analysis. See Bernoulli Analysis of Rowan Companies, Inc.

Chapter XII:

The traditional techniques of Candlestick Analysis may seem fanciful, but certain aspects are firmly grounded in the science of Investor Psychology. See Candlestick Analysis.

Chapter XIII:

Multi-spectral analysis reveals behavioral features of RDC prices that may not be apparent to ordinary analysis. See Multi-Spectral Analysis.

Chapter XIV:

The combination of multi-spectral and mult-dimensional analysis of Rowan Companies, Inc. historical trends, yields a rich set of behavioral surfaces. See Price Behavior Surfaces.




Part 3: Synthesis and Projections for the Future



Chapter XVI:

Forecasts are gathered from several sources to predict future price movements. See RDC Price Predictions.