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What is the Dow Theory? Dow Theory is a collection of indicators and definitions of the types of market signals for indicating a Bull or Bear market (trend established for a year of more) or interim shorter trends, predicated on the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Dow Jones Transportation Average both moving in a similar direction to validate the trend signal.
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Finance allah shmoop what is dow theory Well it's a
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push me pull you index Yeah like you know the
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doctor do little lama thing with the overall average of
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the dow thirty stocks here and the dow jones transport
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index here where one goes well generally the other follows
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that is they are highly correlated in price and one
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is basically an indicator of where the other is heading
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Why Well originally the dow transports were railroads which appalled
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all the crap that the dow industrials made so you'd
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think that one would follow the other And if the
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push me pull you thing didn't work for you well
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take a short look at this caterpillar crawling you know
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like that one part goes forward and then the other
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follows Well dow theory is one of a good gillian
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black box crystal ball theories that charters tried to use
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to predict how the stock market would run in the
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future so that they could profit from those predictions And
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like all other black box theories they work sometimes even
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very nicely for a while with high prediction levels That 00:01:08.293 --> [endTime] is well until they don't No
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