written by Matthew Mohorn

The Stock Market Momentum Model uses the change in price to predict a future change. In trading jargon, this change in price is referred to as momentum. Mathematically, the model can be considered to be a causal high pass filter of degree 1.

In this model,  the user can analyze the momentum indicator response as it relates to the daily closing price of a few popular stock indices.  The upper plot shows the closing price and a smoothed price (in blue) if the filter is turned on. The lower panel is the momentum indicator. Users can drag a cursor left and right to compare values on these two graphs. Below, the cursor is dropped at a point where the momentum shifts from negative to positive values, which happens to be the beginning of a bull market. A trader would want to buy at these opportunities and sell when the momentum becomes negative. Time is measured in years and in each year there are approximately 253 business days.

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Published April 15, 2013
Last Modified June 12, 2014

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The source code zip archive contains an XML representation of the Stock Market Momentum Model.  Unzip this archive in your EJS workspace to compile and run this model using EJS.

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Last Modified June 12, 2014

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