Making Outsized Returns in the Stock Market - Using the Dow Theory

Jul 31
21:00

2004

Henry To, CFA

Henry To, CFA

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The Dow TheoryIt all began with Charles H. Dow...It is ... and amazing to note that not until Charles Dow started ... the Dow Jones ... and Dow Jones Rail Index and started writi

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The Dow Theory

It all began with Charles H. Dow...It is interesting and amazing to note that not until Charles Dow started compiling the Dow Jones Industrial and Dow Jones Rail Index and started writing about the stock market a little over a hundred years ago,Making Outsized Returns in the Stock Market - Using the Dow Theory Articles stock speculation was regarded merely as a game for the rich or as gambling for the brave. Sure, there were the tape readers, but the majority of the public regarded Wall Street as a source of excitement – the entertainment provided freely (unless you were on the wrong side) by figures such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, and the infamous Daniel Drew.In a series of stunning editorials for the Wall Street Journal at the turn of the century, Dow laid out the foundation of his own theory on the stock market.To see the entire article, please go to: http://www.marketthoughts.com/dow_theory.html