Chapter X: The mood of the market toward Dean Foods Company show up in the Daily Closing Altitude and other Sentiment Indicators. |
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| A well known sentiment indicator is the NVI or Negative Volume Index for Dean Foods Company. The modern version of the indicator has received several enhancements suggested by Norman Fosback. The plot is the proportion of the daily NVI as compared to the past year's average daily NVI. The plot is orange below the unity line (neutral implication) and green above (bullish). |
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How to read the Calibrated NVI for Dean Foods Company: The NVI is an elegant indicator based on sound principles but it should not be interpreted in a simplistic manner. The orange plot (NVI less than unity) is not considered bearish because a lowering of the NVI is a natural tendancy under many market conditions. When the plot is in the green area, it indicates that prices are rising on low volume sessions, which is contrary to the normal condition. This can be a tip off to "accumulation behaviour" on the part of someone or some group in the market. The indicator seems most significant when prices are falling and the NVI is rising, which indicates a market that is "buying on the dips". |
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| The NVI resembles a fundamental indicator more than a technical indicator in at least one respect, as it seems to be indicative over a span of months or quarters, rather then the extremely short predictive span typical of many technical signals. This chart for Dean Foods Company covers the few years before the start of the chart at the top of the page. |
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| The historical Closing Altitude is traced by the blue line above. For the trading week ending 12/10/2010, the weekly average closing altitude was 60.76 percent. 50 percent closing altitude is marked as the midline. If the closing prices happened to be exactly halfway between the high and low, they would be plotted on this midline. Values above the midline indicate that day traders have positive feelings toward DF while traces below the midline are a sign that speculators are afraid to hold on to the issue overnight. The short-term trend is positive, with a slope of 36.65. Dean Foods Company stock prices are shown in red. |
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| The Volume Portion is low for the latest data at 0.46. Here the blue indicates the proportion between Up Volume and Down Volume. Again, the horizontal blue line represents the neutral point. Dean Foods Company share prices are overlaid in red. This is an important indicator for market timing, as a change in direction of the volume line may happen before the price turns.Short term, the slope of this indicator is negative at -0.32. |
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