Blog traffic and market reversals?
Declan Fallon (May 21st, 2008) Writes:
Greater reference has been made in recent times to the association between blog readership and market reversals, not just from Barry's TheBigPicture from this past February and March, but also in the spikes in volume for TraderMike, Traderfeed, and my personal blog. So for this paper napkin research I did some analysis of my personal blog web traffic. I converted my visitors number using the same calculation as used for on-balance-volume; termed on-balance-visits. When the S&P closed higher I added my blog readership to a cumulative total, when it closed lower I subtracted it. Overall, I experienced strong readership growth; moving from around 400 visits a day in October 2007 to the 700 currently:
By using an on-balance-visit calculation I can sidestep some of the concerns which may effect other metric calculations ...
By using an on-balance-visit calculation I can sidestep some of the concerns which may effect other metric calculations ...
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Balance Volume, Blog Readership, Bottoms, Cumulative Total, Current Market News, Highs And Lows, Metric Calculations, Paper Napkin, Personal Blog, Readership Growth, Resistance Lines, Reversals, Spikes, Stocks to Watch, Style Chart, Support Resistance, Thebigpicture, Traderfeed, Visitor Numbers, Visitors Number, Web Traffic, Zero Line
Balance Volume, Blog Readership, Bottoms, Cumulative Total, Current Market News, Highs And Lows, Metric Calculations, Paper Napkin, Personal Blog, Readership Growth, Resistance Lines, Reversals, Spikes, Stocks to Watch, Style Chart, Support Resistance, Thebigpicture, Traderfeed, Visitor Numbers, Visitors Number, Web Traffic, Zero Line


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