Market Thrust

The Market Thrust indicator is a powerful measure of the stock market's internal strength or weakness. There are four components to this indicator:

1. Advancing Issues on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) - $ADV or $NYADV
2. Advancing Volume on the NYSE - $UVOL or $NYUPV
3. Declining Issues on the NYSE - $DECL or $NYDEC
4. Declining Volume on the NYSE - $DVOL or $NYDNV

The formula for Market Thrust is given below:

• (Advancing Issues x Advancing Volume) - (Declining Issues x Declining Volume)

A chart of the mini-Dow futures contract is shown below:

When used for day-trading, the trend of the Market Thrust indicator is what is most important.

• Rising Market Thrust Indicator: Bullish sign; Acts as a confirmation signal when combined with a rising stock, index ETF, or stock index future's price.
• Falling Market Thrust Indicator:  Bearish sign; Acts as a confirmation signal of a decreasing market price.

As will be shown on the next page, the Market Thrust indicator is a powerful divergence indicator

Market Thrust Divergences

The Market Thrust indicator is a powerful tool for detecting divergences in trends. Divergences occur when:

• Price is trending higher, but the Market Thrust indicator is not moving higher or is even going down.
• Price is trending lower, however, the Market Thrust technical analysis tool is not trending lower, it is either not trending or is trending higher.

An illustration of the Market Thrust indicator uncovering divergences in price trend is shown below in the 5-minute chart of the mini-Dow Jones Industrial Average futures contract:

The first third of the day, the Dow futures contract increased quite impressively. However, the Market Thrust indicator was falling - an equally impressive bearish divergence. In fact, the Market Thrust line was lower when the Dow future made its high for the day, than the level of the technical indicator was when it first opened the day.

The Market Thrust indicator is a powerful confirmation and divergence technical analysis tool. A similar technical indicator is the Arms Index or TRIN (see: Arms Index TRIN)